I’m not aware of any solutions for iterating through and automatically updating your list of plug-ins, but my guess is that any system that can automatically update WordPress itself can be modified to update everything in fairly short order. That said, I know of two good ways to update WordPress automatically: WP Remote This is … Read more
This one is actually surprisingly simple; add this to your wp-config.php file and all automatic updates will be blocked when outside of the specified hours: // Suspend updates when outside of business hours, 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM $updates_suspended = (date(‘Hi’) < 0900 || date(‘Hi’) > 1730); define( ‘AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED’, $updates_suspended ); You can also use … Read more
After some testing indeed, both WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache do not release the buffer (or prevent the buffer from being released). Turning off “output delay” is simple and depends on the caching plugin involved. WP Super Cache: wp_cache_disable(); ob_end_flush(); // or ob_end_clean(); This should be added after including wp-load.php, this stops any … Read more
As a general principal, you shouldn’t do anything that requires an ‘add_action’ after the plugin activation hook. This is because WP loads and runs all plugins and THEN runs the new added one, and then does a re-direct. You have to set a DB option and hook into that. Here is the discussion from the … Read more
4.9.0 introduced wp_unschedule_hook() https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_unschedule_hook/
Some of what is usually admin side functionality is not included as part of the “main” wordpress bootstrap, files containing uploaded file manipulation functions are one of them and you need to explicitly include them by adding include_once( ABSPATH . ‘wp-admin/includes/image.php’ ); into your call_import function.
Short answer – Nope. Any page request initializes the scheduled queue. It’s just an initialize request. Wp-cron request is a standalone request. so requesting URL /somepage you just initialize request to /wp-cron.php However – If cron event doesn’t work really well (it’s has 1000 db queries e.g. or its requesting a some really long-to-respond resource), … Read more
WP Cron runs, when somebody visits your website. Thus if nobody visits, the cron never runs. Now there are 2 solutions: Disable WP Cron, use a real cron job and customize it. https://support.hostgator.com/articles/specialized-help/technical/wordpress/how-to-replace-wordpress-cron-with-a-real-cron-job Use a custom interval in wp_schedule_event(): function myprefix_custom_cron_schedule( $schedules ) { $schedules[‘every_six_hours’] = array( ‘interval’ => 21600, // Every 6 hours ‘display’ … Read more
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