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 🙂
The problem is that you’re only hooking the cron action on admin_init, which doesn’t run when wp-cron.php is called. So the function will never run. So this function shouldn’t be inside wpcp_activate(): add_action( ‘wpcp_cron_hook’, ‘wpcp_cron_do’ ); Also, register_activation_hook() shouldn’t be inside the admin_init hook either. So your code should look like this: function wpcp_make_post( $post_title, … Read more
Let me answer your questions starting from the second one… So… Why is it deleting all posts at once? You scheduled you event correctly, so it will run once a day. And in the function that is run, you select some posts and delete them, if they’re expired: $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, ‘category_name’ … Read more
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I found the answer to my own question. I am leaving this here in case anyone else runs into the same issues. Basically, post_exists() wants detecting duplicate posts because I didn’t put a file path for it. I needed to include within the function. require_once ABSPATH . ‘/wp-admin/includes/post.php’;
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