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
Welcome to the forum! By default, wp-cron runs every time an HTTP request is made to a WordPress site. For this reason, really popular websites have found it necessary to disable the default wp-cron functionality and replace it with a real cron job. There are several articles available on how to do this. Using the … Read more
Solved by: //Check and set/unset user to able the script to run as admin wp_set_current_user(1); $link = get_edit_post_link($post_to_private->ID); wp_set_current_user(0); Thanks Sally CJ,
require_once( plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ ) . ‘/libraries/action-scheduler/action-scheduler.php’ ); /** * Schedule an action with the hook ‘eg_midnight_log’ to run at midnight each day * so that our callback is run then. */ function eg_log_action_data() { if ( false === as_next_scheduled_action( ‘eg_midnight_log’ ) ) { as_schedule_recurring_action( strtotime( ‘midnight tonight’ ), DAY_IN_SECONDS, ‘eg_midnight_log’ ); } } add_action( ‘init’, … Read more
Question: Will each instance try to run the same job Yes! If you have 5 machines running the same site, they’ll all try to run the cron job. It’ll be inconsistent, but if machine 1 triggers WP Cron and there’s an event ready to run, and machine 2 triggers WP Cron, then machine 2 will … Read more
If your site is using HTTP Authentication (you know, the dialog/prompt that pops up and asks for your username and password), WP Cron will not work. This is because WP Cron does not present the proper login credentials when making the request. To help with this, there is a free plugin that enables WP Cron … Read more
WP CLI to the rescue! Instead of using php and trying to figure out the rest, install it on the server and just have your cron execute wp cron event run –due-now –path=/home/mysite_staging/www/example.com/
I can’t schedule (I don’t know how I should do it) separately CRON jobs because I had a few situations when some function was run before I have necessary data The key to doing this is scheduling the first job to run daily at the required time, and have that event create all of the … Read more
Ok, things are working now. Not sure if it was fact that cron environment didn’t have its PATH set as needed, or if there was other reason, but I followed the instructions here: https://peterwilson.cc/real-wordpress-cron-with-wp-cli/ and https://purpleturtlecreative.com/blog/2020/02/how-to-replace-the-wordpress-cron-with-a-linux-cron-job/ So now, my crontab is PATH=/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin:/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin:/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/sbin:/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin * * * * * /bin/bash /folder/wordpresscron.sh (with newline after the crontab entry) … Read more