How to know if a script started by wp_cron is still active?
There is a plugin called WP-Cron Control to check your scheduled events. Other way to check it is using WP-CLI via command-line, using this command: wp cron event list Hope this helps!
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Reset/delete post views meta/custom field after X hours or minutes or seconds
Your code for scheduling event isn’t correct, here is the correct one: function hits_set_zero_schedule() { if ( ! wp_next_scheduled( ‘hits_set_to_zero’) ) wp_schedule_event( time(), ‘daily’, ‘hits_set_zero’ ); } add_action( ‘wp’, ‘hits_set_zero_schedule’ ); function hits_set_zero_func() { delete_post_meta( $post_id, ‘post_views_count’, true ); } add_action( ‘hits_set_zero’, ‘hits_set_zero_func’ ); Also, you can define intervals otherwise than daily by adding a … Read more
Cron job to run just once per day using external cron service
wp_schedule_single_event‘s $timestamp is the time you want the event to occur. This must be in a UNIX timestamp format. WP cron uses UTC/GMT time, not local time. Use time(), which is always GMT in WordPress. time() number of seconds since the Unix Epoch If you want to add a day, you need to add seconds: … Read more
How to create and run cronjob in WP without using the plugin?
i got this proplem with hight load in my wppit.com so i checked my cpanel and i found the cronjob casue this hiegh load and because WordPress has to work on all sort of different platforms, OS’s and configurations, it can’t rely that there will be a cronjob service on the server that can handle … Read more
Use cron to create a non blocking task
For instance, since the configured cron tasks will only be run on page load, the task might not be run at the desired interval if there are no visitors. To prevent this, you need to use your operating system’s task scheduler. For this, you need to define define(‘DISABLE_WP_CRON’, true); in your wp-config.php file. After that, … Read more
Code does not work in class implementation but works fine in functions.php file
As Nathan has said in his comment above, the update_events() function needs to be a public function, not a private function: public scope to make that variable/function available from anywhere, other classes and instances of the object. private scope when you want your variable/function to be visible in its own class only. protected scope when … Read more
WordPress function, Run using Crontab
define(‘DISABLE_WP_CRON’, true); This line disables the default behaviour of WP Cron. Which is being triggered by a user that visits the site. This is bad for a couple of reasons (nobody might visit, tasks are started via apache handler instead of PHP CLI, …). Now, if you have disabled it, you need another way to … Read more
Convert post type to another
You can use Function Reference/set post type <?php $post_id = 15; if ( set_post_type( $post_id, ‘page’ ) ) { echo “Post #$post_id is now a Page”; } else { echo “Impossible to transform this post into a page”; } ?>
Wp Cron and WordPress Updates
If I disable wp-cron from config, will automatic updates still work? No, neither will scheduled posts, transient cleanup, trash clearing after 30 days, or automatic plugin updates, and some other things. Anything that relies on timed or scheduled activities will break. It seems you already know the solution, though the real solution is to identify … Read more
When running WordPress Cron manually, it shows WP-Cron spawning is disabled. What is WP-Cron spawning?
What is WP-Cron spawning? First off, let’s see what WP-Cron is and how it works: WP-Cron is how WordPress handles scheduling time-based tasks in WordPress, e.g. checking for core updates and publishing scheduled post. WP-Cron works by checking, on every page load, a list of scheduled tasks to see what needs to be run. Any … Read more