If the point of the file is to allow the website to asynchronously post data why would it even be allowed to be accessed directly, especially from an ip that is not the ip of the site itself? AJAX requests come from the user’s IP address, not the site’s, because an AJAX request is by … Read more
They’re not triggered in the normal WordPress lifecycle. They’re only triggered when you make a request to admin-ajax.php, and they’re triggered as the last action before shutdown. You can see this in the file itself: https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php#L188
That process would normally be placed in a theme, so you would have to create a Child Theme of your current theme, and then modify the Comments template to provide that functionality. You don’t want to make changes to theme files directly, as an update to the theme will overwrite your changes. Many articles on … Read more
You were on the right track with the second try. Put this is functions.php, or wherever: if (!wp_next_scheduled(‘fetch_webcategories_hook’)) { wp_schedule_event( time(), ‘hourly’, ‘fetch_webcategories_hook’ ); } add_action ( ‘fetch_webcategories_hook’, ‘fetch_webcategories’ ); It’s not quite a real hourly schedule because somebody has to visit the site to trigger it, so if you have VERY low traffic it … Read more
Using $.ajax getting 500 error
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randomly get 400 error while user is logged in wp_ajax
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It turns out this is due to SiteGround caching data, in particular its Dynamic Cache. According to their docs on Dynamic Cache, they will “… monitor whether your browser has these cookies and bypass the cache if they are present”. One of the cookies they check against is wordpress_logged_in_, which explains the behaviour I described. … Read more
Run PHPMailer function after ajax function completes that adds row to custom table