WordPress has a constant DOING_CRON that helps us know we’re doing the cron jobs or not. It’s defined in wp-cron.php file. So, you can check this constant in your code: if ( defined( ‘DOING_CRON’ ) ) { // Do something }
Thanks Privateer for the prompt reply and advice. I found a way around it before I saw your answer. Here is a step-by-step method for deleting thousands of old cron jobs and may be of use to someone else. I logged on to phpMyAdmin. I clicked on my database and then the ‘search’ tab. I … Read more
First can you please confirm that you don’t have any caching plugins enabled? Caching plugins can interfere with cron jobs because your visitors are not served a live page but a cached version of your page. If you have a caching plugin enabled, you can choose one of your pages, add an exclussion to your … Read more
I think the best way is to use WP-CLI but you’d need to write a bash script to do this. Here is one that should do it for you: WP_PATH=”/path/to/wp” for SITE_URL in = $(wp site list –fields=domain,path,archived,deleted –format=csv –path=”$WP_PATH” | grep “,0,0$” | awk -F ‘,’ ‘{print $1 $2}’) do for EVENT_HOOK in $(wp … Read more
You can run WP cron manually by calling: http://example.com/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron If you don’t want the automatic cron to run while you’re debugging, then add this to your /wp-config.php file: define(‘DISABLE_WP_CRON’, true); If you’re on a development environment and want to output debug information, calling it manually like that will show you your debug output. Alternatively you … Read more
My favorite plugin for that is Core Control which has very nice module for display of what is going in the cron – which events are set up, when are they next firing, etc. On getting your hands dirty level see _get_cron_array(), which returns internal stored data for cron events (top level of keys are … Read more
Finally I found the solution. Following is the solution:- Never use relative path in python scripts to be executed via crontab. I did something like this instead:-import os import sys import time, datetime CLASS_PATH = ‘/srv/www/live/mainapp/classes’ SETTINGS_PATH = ‘/srv/www/live/foodtrade’ sys.path.insert(0, CLASS_PATH) sys.path.insert(1,SETTINGS_PATH) import other_py_files Never supress the crontab code instead use mailserver and check the … Read more
No. From the cron man page: …cron will then examine the modification time on all crontabs and reload those which have changed. Thus cron need not be restarted whenever a crontab file is modified But if you just want to make sure its done anyway, or
Even though the question was posted a while ago, I just had the same problem but found a solution (based on Kissaki’s answer, thanks!) and thought I’d post it here for anyone still looking for a possible solution. Prerequisites: SSH access Python Code (python):
I have to download a file from an SFTP server everyday. I have the program which retrieves the file from the server but I was thinking of setting up a cron job (or anything similar) to automate that. We are a Windows shop and need to set up the cron job in Windows.