Ok, so it looks like you’re having a problem with the publish time being a unix timestamp, but your current time is not, it’s just returning the hours. $publish_time = get_the_time(‘U’); // Returns our $publish time as a Unix timestamp $delete_time = $publish_time + 43200; // 60 sec * 60 min * 12 hrs = … Read more
Run a single cron, it’s much more manageable and more stable, and performance shouldn’t be an issue since you do 99% of the work of selecting which user should be notified in MySQL, which will be extremely fast. I’d use a table to save each day (and each user on that day) that my cron … Read more
First, you’ll have to determine an average time to execute your job. Run it once every minute, five times. Use error_log(‘Start’);, and error_log(‘End’); to mark the start time, and the end time. Take an average of all five results and round it up to full seconds. Prepare your job to execute its logic 6 times … Read more
Configurations in wp-config.php should be placed above the comment near the bottom that reads: That’s all, stop editing! Happy Publishing. Per Editing wp-config.php The contents of the wp-config-sample.php file are in a very specific order. The order matters. If you already have a wp-config.php file, rearranging the contents of the file may create errors on … Read more
I believe you need to use wp_get_current_user() (see https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_get_current_user ), which will return the current WP user information as an object. From there, you can get the user name (or other parameters). From that page, this example should get you started: $current_user = wp_get_current_user(); /** * @example Safe usage: $current_user = wp_get_current_user(); * if ( … Read more
The problem here is a mistake regarding how to schedule a cron event, lets begin with: wp_schedule_event(time(), ‘hourly’, ‘my_schedule_hook’, $args); wp_schedule_event(time(), ‘hourly’, ‘update_user_hours’); Here you are telling WordPress to fire the update_user_hours action/event on an hourly basis. You then hook into this to fire a callback: add_action(‘update_user_hours’, ‘do_this_hourly’); But then, instead of declaring do_this_hourly, for … Read more
When I add images to my Media Library they aren’t available in the Media Library for about an hour. It seems like there is a queue or some sort of CRON that fires. WordPress handles uploads immediately, there is no latency, queues, or cron unless you introduce one yourself. The image appears in the media … Read more
you could use something like this, WP Crontrol to see what those events might be and when they are scheduled to run ( interval ), but the time of the day ( when they run ) is controlled by visitors viewing your site ( which is why they run during the day, because that when … Read more
If you need it on the first day of the month, you should still run this daily. Just be sure to check if “today” is the first of the month. Even your “first day of the year” would be executed if it is the first day of the month. You can check this with the … Read more
If you are running a cron file in crontab then. including WP files will not help as it doesnot run as a wordpress file. it is like a simple php script. You will not get access to access wordpress functions. you will have to run php script and connect using php connection to the database. … Read more