The reason is when you set only a time without date, the php function strtotime() by default add today as a date so if the time is “04:30”, the timestamp is in the past. I fixed like this : $timestamp = strtotime( $cron_sync_time ); if( $timestamp < time() ){ //if the time already past today … Read more
How to pass variable from other function?
What happens excalty, call functions are cached ? They do not get cached. When you schedule a cron job, it stores a record in the database to trigger a hook with certain parameters at a time/date. No code is cached. So when that time comes, the code is loaded and run from the disk as … Read more
Try something like this: if (!wp_next_scheduled(‘update_members_types’)) { wp_schedule_event( time(), ‘daily’, ‘update_members_types’ ); } add_action ( ‘update_members_types’, ‘update_member_post_type’ ); function update_member_post_type() { $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘member’, ‘posts_per_page’ => ‘1’, ‘date_query’ => array( array( ‘after’ => strtotime( ‘-24 hours’ ) ) ) ); $members = get_posts( $args ); if ( $members ) { foreach ( … Read more
Best Way to Enter Maintenance Mode Programmatically
Q: Are pingbacks sent immediately when a post is published, or are they scheduled as a cron job? If the later is correct, how often does the job run and can I trigger it manually? A: You can install core control (wordpress plugin) to find out more. Q: Are there any other terms for PBs … Read more
Well, I don’t think you can do this with cron. Browser sends request to server and gets response. It isn’t connected permanently to your server. So if you want to refresh page which is already displayed in browser, you have to force browser to send request for this page one more time (do refresh). Another … Read more
Every minute of every day of every week of every month, that command runs. man 5 crontab has the documentation of this. If you just type man crontab, you get the documentation for the crontab command. What you want is section 5 of the manual pages which covers system configuration files including the /etc/crontab file. … Read more
0 0,4,8,12,16,20 * * * /cmd.sh That’s probably how I would do it. This will run the job every 4 hours, on the hours of 00:00, 04:00, 08:00 12:00, 16:00, 20:00. This is just a little more verbose way of writing */4, but it should work the same.
wget was fine. The client’s theme had a coming soon feature that was keeping the cron from processing.