https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_schedule_event You can try using scheduled job to solve this. In the hook, you would write a function that checks all posts from yesterday and see which posts have received no comments. Then you will move those posts to cat 2 from cat 1. I would come up with mock code if you can give … Read more
I’ve managed to fix it! The problem was calling the wrong add_action. I had: // Schedule Cron Job Event function custom_cron_job() { if ( ! wp_next_scheduled( ‘XML_import’ ) ) { wp_schedule_event( time(), ‘hourly’, ‘XML_import’ ); } } add_action( ‘wp’, ‘custom_cron_job’ ); But it must be: // Schedule Cron Job Event if (! wp_next_scheduled( ‘xml’ ) … Read more
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I think I solved this issue. The reason seems to be that I had the following cron related constants set in my wp-config.php file: define( ‘DISABLE_WP_CRON’, false ); define( ‘ALTERNATE_WP_CRON’, true ); Since I am using a docker container here, I added ALTERNATE_WP_CRON and when using this we also need to set DISABLE_WP_CRON to true, … Read more
Is this assumption valid? Or does DISABLE_WP_CRON actually block crons from running, and block plugins from registering new cron events? Yes, setting DISABLE_WP_CRON to true doesn’t actually block WordPress’ crons from running; it just prevents wordpress itself from initiating the events to run when your backend is triggered by a customer viewing your website. I’m … Read more
The WP_DISABLE_CRON constant only removes WP-Cron from loading on the page so it’s no longer triggered by site traffic. You can absolutely hit the wp-cron.php file directly to trigger it. I use https://cron-job.org to ping my private sites at https://dev.example.com/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron for example. This is actually recommended in the WordPress handbook: https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/cron/hooking-wp-cron-into-the-system-task-scheduler/ Editing to add: if … Read more
WordPress uses a file called wp-cron.php as a virtual cron job, or scheduled task in order to automate things like publishing scheduled posts, checking for plugin or theme updates, sending email notifications and more. By default WordPress is setup to call wp-cron.php everytime someone visits your WordPress website when a scheduled task is present, to … Read more