First of all, you should wrap your cron into a method: function cronjob_once_every_month() { // Our custom cron interval: $schedules[‘every_month’] = array( ‘interval’ => 1 * MONTH_IN_SECONDS, ‘display’ => ‘Once every Month’ ); } a) set up an automated email Then you should schedule an action: if ( ! wp_next_scheduled( ‘cronjob_once_every_month’ ) ) { wp_schedule_event( … Read more
Cron tasks don’t directly affect page load besides the 0.01s timeout (of course, they do affect server load, so they can impact page load indirectly). My hunch is that your PHP config is the issue. The cron tasks run like any other web request, and they’re subject to PHP’s max_execution_time INI setting. If this is … Read more
Yes. No, because the scheduled job hasn’t reached the time yet. Yes, but not until 7:03pm. Basically, any hit to the site after the scheduled time will cause the queued job to run. The WP_Cron is a “best effort” system, not an exact timer. This is generally good enough though, since if nobody’s visiting the … Read more
Well, as I was working on an existing site which as maaaaany plugins already installed, I figured out that there was a define(DISABLE_WP_CRON,true); So when you seems to have the same problem than me. Do a research of define(DISABLE_WP_CRON,true); in your files.
The (built-in) Requests class lets you call multiple requests simultaneously: Requests::request_multiple. <?php $requests = Requests::request_multiple([ [ ‘url’ => ‘https://www.mocky.io/v2/5acb821f2f00005300411631’, ‘type’ => ‘GET’, ‘headers’ => [ ‘Accept’ => ‘application/json’ ], ], [ ‘url’ => ‘https://www.mocky.io/v2/5acb821f2f00005300411631’, ‘type’ => ‘POST’, ‘headers’ => [ ‘Accept’ => ‘application/json’ ], ‘data’ => json_encode([ ‘text’ => ‘My POST Data’ ]) ], [ … Read more
Your option using WP internals would be to use the HTTP API along with wp schedule event Create a scheduled event, something like: register_activation_hook(__FILE__, ‘my_schedule’); add_action(‘execute_my_url’, ‘do_this_daily’); function my_schedule() { $timestamp = //some time you want it to run wp_schedule_event($timestamp, ‘daily’, ‘execute_my_url’); } function do_this_daily() { wp_remote_get( ‘../ =myvideoblog/mvb_main.php&action=processfeed&updatefeed=67’, $args); } This is a simple … Read more
Setup WordPress Cron Events Let’s say you want to start the cron at 6PM and keep running the cron after every 15 minutes till 9PM (for 3 hours). Then all cron stops. Note: for the simplicity of implementation, all time entry in the CODE is considered to be GMT/UTC. For this, you need to schedule … Read more
time() only returns current time, it doesn’t accept any inputs. $time = time(); // works out to 2016-04-11T12:11:34+00:00 What you want is midnight tomorrow: $tomorrow = strtotime( ‘tomorrow’ ); // works out to 2016-04-12T00:00:00+00:00 Note that these are PHP functions and they ignore WP timezone, since it resets PHP time zone to UTC. So if … Read more
Finally, I discovered what was wrong: the webserver (a dedicated VPS) had a bad configuration of the hosted domain, so it was unable to “self contact” it, to call wp-cron.php . I fixed it and now every scheduled job works, including this one 🙂
This is an old question, but hopefully this helps someone facing the same issue. We can use wp_get_schedule( $hook ) to retrieve the cron schedule for the hook. Then we can use wp_get_schedules() to retrieve the supported cron recurrences. Find the correct array value and return it. /** * Retrieve Cron interval for hook. * … Read more