The code to schedule a cron event takes a timestamp as the first parameter. As long as you set the original timestamp to be 9:00 (on any day) the twicedaily trigger should take care of the rest wp_schedule_event( $timestamp, $recurrence, $hook, $args )
In short, yes. When wp-cron is not triggered frequently enough it will miss scheduled publish times. The behavior you mentioned above is normal. A visit to your site will automatically trigger wp-cron in the background and any “Missed Schedule” posts will be published promptly. To get more consistent behavior from wp-cron I’d recommend setting up … Read more
I’ve found the code below that does what I want except it isn’t accurate to the hour. It is only accurate to the whole day, so if my post expires in the morning it still shows it as current in the afternoon. How would this be able to be more accurate to the hour? <?php … Read more
Auto draft posts when scheduled date is reached
It’s very good that you are using Advanced Custom Fields. Use this for assigning running dates to movie and by making use of WP_Query you can call movies wherever is matching date. For fetching posts you can use following code: $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘movie’, ‘meta_key’ => ‘date’, ‘meta_query’ => array( array( ‘key’ => … Read more
I second SamuelElh comment and YES cron is the way to go. BUT, which cron? The WordPress implementation of cron is a tricky implementation. How? Actually it is a cron fired by the visits your site gets, both (back-end and front-end), so, if your site is not getting a visitor every 10 minutes as suggested … Read more
I don’t know why you are loading WordPress by including the core files, there should be something wrong at that point. Anyway, to schedule an event, you can use wp_schedule_single_event. This function accepts 3 arguments: wp_schedule_single_event( $timestamp, $hook, $args ); In your case, you can wrap wp_insert_post in a function, and then call it when … Read more
You can use Show/Hide Content at Set Time plugin to to show the content on scheduled time or date. [time-restrict on=”2017/06/26 18:00:00″]your content Will show after 06/26/2017 at 6pm[/time-restrict] more examples according to your need can be seen on plugin page
Would this help? $status=”scheduled”; //you may need to change this $my_post[‘post_status’] = $status; Fond something from this link.
Check your server time and check time from WordPress Settings >> General and check your time zone there. Install the Health Check plugin, run it, and check what it says about WP-Cron. Remove this define(‘DISABLE_WP_CRON’, true); code from the wp-config.php file. Also, Contact your hosting provider regarding this issue 🙂