This is what worked for me: require_once ‘wp-config.php’; global $wpdb; $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘product’, ‘posts_per_page’ => -1, ); $Query= new WP_Query($args); You can use similar way to achieve what you want.
It depends. The initial page load trigger should not but performance may degrade as visitors browse your site until the Cron job is finished. Is the scheduled event you plan on using PHP or DB intensive? How often will it run? Here’s how it works The scheduled event (aka Cron job) will be initialized once … Read more
Not tested, but what if you use WC()->cart->get_cart() to retrieve the cart contents instead of the global $woocommerce object? However, I believe the problem is that cart contents require the user’s session, and accessing it via cron won’t know who the user is. You might need to start querying the database directly through $wpdb in … Read more
It depends on the plugin and the cache method you are using. For example, as far as I remember, WP Super Cache offers two different cache methods: PHP Cache HTML Cache Using the first method creates PHP cache files that still load WordPress’s functions, but do not go through the whole loading process. If this … Read more
It’s not possible with just WordPress to schedule code to run in the background at a specific time. WordPress, like most (if not all) PHP web applications, only actually runs in response to a URL being accessed, and a request being made to the server. For a scheduled event to run at a certain time, … Read more
You should be including this file: include( “/some/path/wordpress/wp-config.php” ); That’ll get you to where you can use the wp_insert_post() function. If this is a multi-site blog, make sure to use the switch_to_blog() function first.
Although both of your options (that is, using transients or using a cron job) are viable, I’m a fan of using transients unless the dataset is exceptionally large or if there is some need to automate the process. Without seeing much of your current code, it’s difficult to give a working example. Nonetheless, if you … Read more
When you run things on the CLI (which is pretty much where Cronjob and runwhen jobs are running), then you don’t have access to some things like some server or request variable contents, etc. What you need to do is fire up WP Core. Else you won’t have access to the full WP API. One … Read more
You don’t necessarily need to use the WP Cron API for this. Instead you could modify your existing code to make use of WP Transients. Transients are basically Options that expire after a set time. You can wrap your current scrape process in an if statement that checks for the existence of the stored transient. … Read more
wp_cron operates on intervals and there is no interval that will hit exactly the first day and the 15th of every month. You could run your wp-cron job every day and check the date, similar to this but with a simple callback like: cron_callback_wpse_113675() { $date = date(‘d’); if (’01’ == $date || ’15’ == … Read more