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Compare time value in WP_User_Query for sending emails

WP_cron keeps going back to the past

For future reference if someone else has the same problem. Found out that the high availability of the database cluster was causing this. For some weird reason another server was sending old data back to the mysql server on which this wordpress site is connected at the moment. The strange thing is that it was … Read more

Adding $args to wp_schedule_event() causes hook to add infinitely to WP Cron

Certain functions are not available when executed with wp_schedule_event

WP-Cron called by separate server

Might be your production server still uses the site url of the dev server? Check your production database for dev url’s. In any case, use the WP_SITEURL and WP_HOME defines

Call to undefined function wp_create_category()

The core functions needs to be called within the WordPress environment only. The cron.php is out of it thus resulting in that Call to undefined function error. Easiest way to the solution of your problem is to move the contents on that file in the mct_task() function.

Activate Plugin Automatically After Set Time

Add this to the functions.php file of your active (child) theme- add_action( ‘init’, ‘wpse_393267_activate_plugin’ ); function wpse_393267_activate_plugin() { if( !function_exists( ‘is_plugin_active’ ) ) { include_once ABSPATH . ‘/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php’; } $plugin_to_activate=”jetpack/jetpack.php”; // plugin-dir/plugin-file.php $date_to_activate=”2021-08-13″; // YYYY-MM-DD if( is_plugin_active( $plugin_to_activate ) ) return; if( time() >= strtotime( $date_to_activate ) ) { activate_plugin( $plugin_to_activate ); } } Change … Read more

Bulk updating a group of WordPress Pages every 10 minutes

I will recommend to not use wp cron since will require someone to visit the website. Read more here about cron jobs. In case you want with wp-cron here is what you need: Create 10 minutes interval in your schedules if you dont have one. add_filter( ‘cron_schedules’, function ( $schedules ) { $schedules[‘every_ten_minutes’] = array( … Read more

Cron: Update four post at Hour

This code will call your function every hour. // The ‘if’ condition is needed to make sure the scheduler runs only once if ( ! wp_next_scheduled( ‘my_custom_action’ ) ){ wp_schedule_event( time(), ‘hourly’, ‘my_custom_action’ ); } // Here we create our own action to attach to the scheduler add_action( ‘my_custom_action’, ‘update_content’ ); It is also recommended … Read more

WordPress cron not getting executed when called by external service (but ok from browser)

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