cron

Wp_Schedule_Event every day at specific time

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

Check if function called by cron job

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 }

Delete thousands of cron jobs

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

WP Cron Doesn’t Execute When Time Elapses

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

Running WP Cron on multisite the right way

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

How to debug WordPress “Cron” wp_schedule_event

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

How to test wp_cron?

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

CronJob not running

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

Are There Any Cron Jobs Alternative?

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):

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