I think the best approach would be to only save a post meta value ( [or use a custom table][1] ) which indicates that a video upload should happen. Also register a schedule that will query for all posts that are marked as “upload needed” and do the upload in the schedule execution. https://gist.github.com/EdwardBock/85c971633ea1abf8f248f4fb468344ed You … Read more
Your best option is probably to first explore your current hosting environment for the possibilities of Cronjobs. It might be called “Scheduled Tasks” or similar. Alternatively you can schedule a task from within WordPress via wp_schedule_event() (though if you’re using the default WP Cron, you can’t be certain of it running at the specified time) … Read more
It seems you are comparing GMT time with the local time before you update the user meta. Try WP function current_time( $type, $gmt = 0 ); $current_time = current_time(‘timestamp’, 0) // local time $current_time = current_time(‘timestamp’, 1) // GMT time I think you need $current_time = current_time(‘timestamp’, 0) // local time instead of $current_time = … Read more
The official wordpress documentation https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/cron/hooking-into-the-system-task-scheduler/ suggests doing it via a web request rather as per your first example rather than php CLI as per your second example. Their example uses wget, but your curl request would work just as well. I believe they are using the web request replicates the standard http requests that would … Read more
Php cron job (wp-cron) not working
You can test if mail has been sent or not using the following: // Set $to as the email you want to send the test to. $to = “[email protected]”; // Email subject and body text. $subject=”wp_mail function test”; $message=”This is a test of the wp_mail function: wp_mail is working.woo!”; $headers=””; // Load WP components, no … Read more
Start by ensuring that there is actually a 15min interval available. // create the cron scheduled interval to be used add_filter(‘cron_schedules’,’ex11_cron_schedules’); function ex11_cron_schedules($schedules){ if(!isset($schedules[“15min”])){ $schedules[“15min”] = array( ‘interval’ => 15*60, ‘display’ => __(‘Once every 15 minutes’)); } return $schedules; } Then create a custom WP_Query loop to fetch all the records you need to compare, … Read more
CRON job to update wp_usermeta value each day or week based on server time
wp-cron event doesn’t run when custom login API is enabled
This won’t affect your existing scheduled Cron events, as they already have a schedule interval set. It will only add a new custom schedule interval that will be available for new ones. So long as you are adding to the $schedules array and returning it (which you are) then it will all be fine.