I posted a way to accomplish this here. Essentially, my suggestion is to create a sort of API for your WP installation to maintain orthogonality between your systems.
“Error establishing database connection” when trying to run script through crontab
For example about 12:00 it should run 3 tasks. If You use wp-cron it will start when someone visit Your page about 12:00. ( Here is small complication because when two users visit Your page exactly in the same moment cron can start twice and do everything twice ). However someone opens our page round … Read more
Scheduling posts on wordpress adds wrong seconds as post_date
cron.php being constantly deleted [closed]
After some testing I figured out that yes, it will use the new schedule, updated using the ‘cron_schedules’ filter.
What version of BP are you using? Changing your avatar should result in the uploaded file being deleted after the creation of the thumb and full versions. And those versions should over-write the old versions. Avatars don’t have a db entry, so what file names are you seeing in an avatar folder? You should only … Read more
AS said by Fleuv you can use wp_schedule_event() function to execute your code like this add_action(‘my_twfours_action’, ‘my_twfours_action_fn’); my_twfours_action_fn (){ //this code will execute every 24 hours } wp_schedule_event( time(), ‘daily’, ‘my_twfours_action’ ); //adding new cron schedule event To create your 2 minutes filter and then scheduling a cron jo is like function my_two_minutes_filter( $schedules ) … Read more
You’re getting Undefined index errors because you’re loading the files directly and not rendered through the server. The server typically populates those values and it’s actually more secure to run with less elevated privileges (through an HTTP request). Throw your manual cron to a curl or wget — whichever you have installed on your server. … Read more
I’ve done something similar flagging content ingestion issues. I would caution against sending emails from a cron unless it’s in a digest form from a specified interval of time as you’ll get email fatigue pretty quickly. I created a queue of sorts in a separate post type that linked to the the flagged post or … Read more