The point of the wp-cron is to spawn separate process to run events in. It isn’t quite perfect and sometimes spawning process slows down page view noticeably, however it is vastly better than executing some heavy operation at the start of random visitor’s page load.
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.
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
Creating a Scheduled Event First we’ll create a function that will schedule our event. Mine is called “mycronjob” and it will run once every day. All this code can go into your plugin’s main file, outside the main function: // create a scheduled event (if it does not exist already) function cronstarter_activation() { if( !wp_next_scheduled( … Read more
Cron job disappering without notice?
Automatically add custom fields (post_meta) to all published posts, hourly, via wp_cron?
It sounds like what you really might want is a transient. WP Transients are a way to cache the results of a query, and set an expiration date on that cache. So you could cache the results of your example from above for 24 hours. If anyone requests that data while the cache is still … Read more
You can use PHP’s fgetcsv() or str_getcsv() function to parse the uploaded CSV file. Your CSV will need to include a column with the Post’s ID as well as the columns matching up to your custom field names. Loop through the CSV and for each line update the custom fields for that post using update_post_meta() … Read more
WordPress Multisite Cron Issue
As you mentioned, WordPress by default only runs the wp_cron when the WordPress site is visited. This of course will cause problems if you are needing to schedule some event reliably, and you aren’t getting consistent traffic to your site. To resolve this, you can disable the default functionality of the wordpress cron by adding … Read more