You could use php_sapi_name(). See this demo lifted from the developer docs <?php $sapi_type = php_sapi_name(); if (substr($sapi_type, 0, 3) == ‘cgi’) { echo “Your are probably a human”; } else { echo “You are probably not a human”; } ?> You could just apply this kind of conditional at the start of your script.
XML Imported Custom Posts
It depends what you mean by “I want the test.php file to be called not earlier then a specific time each day”. Setting up a cron job is very straightforward, you just need to simply do: <?php register_activation_hook( __FILE__, ‘prefix_activation’ ); /** * On activation, set a time, frequency and name of an action hook … Read more
The latest versions of WordPress will update automatically. AKA. you do absolutely nothing and then at random times you’ll receive an email telling you it has self updated. This does not require any cronjobs etc. As for setting this up, it may or may not require FTP credentials (can’t recall off the top of my … Read more
Assuming you’re running cron jobs under your user account, it will have access to any folder that your account has read access to. If you do not need them to be publicly accessible, and you have access to a folder outside your public web root, then for security purposes you should put them outside of … Read more
WordPress Multisite Cron Issue
This could be caused by many different things, as well as a result of a broken cron setup, where actions are being scheduled, but never run. The best way forward is to try and understand what is actually being scheduled or rescheduled, what are the action names? If you can find the action names, you’ll … Read more
What is the cron doing?
You can write your own wp_mail function that will override the core one and in your own function you can enqueque emails, and then dequeue them and send them with wp-crom events. Managing the queue is not trivial but should be doable. But the easier path is to use an external service that has an … Read more
As @Milo said, WP Cron will only really get triggered when someone requests something from WP, that is visit any WordPress page (I haven’t looked up the exact details so I don’t know if, for example, an AJAX request would trigger the scheduled event). You said that you have broken up the main task into … Read more