wp-cron - Read For Learn

So what I came up with, which seems to work is the following: This function will search by the user id and find the corresponding cron job function search_user_cron( $hook, $user_id ) { $crons = _get_cron_array(); foreach( $crons as $timestamp => $cron ) if( isset( $cron[$hook] ) ) foreach( $cron as $jobs ) foreach( $jobs … Read more

WordPress Cron Job Counting Up and Not Down

Using a Cron Job to dynamically populate a field ONCE, and then making the field blank the next time someone visits page

I’m gonna attempt an answer here: In your GF code, you’re going to need to have a snippet that checks the hidden field in the db first. IF value is blank.. THEN they are not a winner = Proceed. If value is ‘winner’.. then update value to blank… Proceed with ‘winner’ functionality. In your cron, … Read more

Adding custom cron_schedule prior to wp_schedule_event

Wondering if there was an issue with using a class based plugin and the order in which things are instantiated and called, I rewrote the plugin using “procedural” functions (I’m not exactly sure of the terminology for this … A non-class based plugin) and it is working as intended.

Break a WordPress function to run in patches and re-continue

Cron jobs repeating themselves

The wp_schedule_single_event function in cron.php (http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.7.1/src/wp-includes/cron.php#L0) has a comment which says: // don’t schedule a duplicate if there’s already an identical event due in the next 10 minutes So I’d say that no it won’t trigger lots of calls for earlier in the day.

Cron Lock Timeout, when to use?

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WordPress can’t seem to handle tens of thousands of scheduled posts? Cron Breaks

Plugin Hooks Not Shown in WP Cron Jobs

WPMU schedule doesn’t execute actions

Regenerating array key for wp_schedule_event args