I’ve change my comment into an answer. Please accept as solution. Change set_transient (‘homepage_tipsloop’ , $tipsloop , MINUTE_IN_SECONDS * 5 ); to set_transient (‘homepage_tipsloop’ , $tipsloop , 5 * MINUTE_IN_SECONDS ); as stated in the codex
Do you just want this lines ? $midnight_time = strtotime(‘tomorrow’) – time(); set_transient( ‘transient_name’, $transient_datas, $midnight_time); $midnight_time represent the seconds before midnight happens. You can ask your server to curl a page with a random parameter if you have cache to be sure your transient is consumed with a cronjob.
I assume the widget and the “Refresh now” button are shown on the front-end, yes? One option to delete a transient is to use ajax to do it. This is rather rough example, but I hope it gives you the idea what to do. You can read more about Ajax in WordPress from the codex. … Read more
get_site_transient() uses the older nomenclature for multisite which referred to a multisite network as a “site” and individual sites on the network as “blogs”. So get_site_transient() is getting the value of a transient for the whole network, while get_transient() gets a transient for an individual site/blog. If you look at the source of the function … Read more
To my understanding, *_transient() is basically *_option() wrapped in a cache-timer. What that means in this context, is that set_transient( ‘…’, true, * MINUTE_IN_SECONDS ); will not run/re-evaluate every minute. Instead it will run/re-evaluate when the page has loaded by a visitor/user, and the data therein is older than 60 seconds. This is not ideal … Read more
It depends if you add an expiration time. If you do not add an expiration time then autoload will be yes. This means the option that stores this transient will be loaded on every request even if it’s not used. With large numbers of transients this poses an issue purely in terms of memory. I … Read more
By the definition and the usage pattern, transients might be deleted at any point in time, the expiry time parameter really specifies only the maximal time the value will be cached. It might be that the particular site has a problem with transients not being cleaned on time and employs some code to clean them … Read more
wp_options flooded with transient API entires
Yes you can, transients is on your server, not accessible by front end client. You can use also update_option() https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/update_option
Transients are a simple way of storing cached data in the database temporarily by giving it a custom name and a timeframe after which it will expire and be deleted. So yes, it will be a good idea to get data from second DB and store it as a transient. First thing you have to … Read more