At first view, the schefuled task code in your code seems ok. I just would suggest to introduce scheduled tasks clearing on plugin deactivation; this is useful for several reasons and one of them can be the origin of your problem: if you was testing, the scheduled event can be already set and this snippet … Read more
For what it’s worth, I was running into the issue of the same message within WP-Cron Events but instead with a 404 “not found” code…it’s hunting for the file http://yourdomain.com/wp-cron.php. My issue turned out to be an improper file permission on my wp-cron.php file (644 instead of 666) which caused the wp-cron.php file to give … Read more
First take a SQL dump of the database in the state you want it. Then you’d write a script that accomplishes the following: Put the WP install into maintenance mode by creating a file in wp-content with the filename .maintenance and contents “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.” (or your preferred … Read more
The problem here is a mistake regarding how to schedule a cron event, lets begin with: wp_schedule_event(time(), ‘hourly’, ‘my_schedule_hook’, $args); wp_schedule_event(time(), ‘hourly’, ‘update_user_hours’); Here you are telling WordPress to fire the update_user_hours action/event on an hourly basis. You then hook into this to fire a callback: add_action(‘update_user_hours’, ‘do_this_hourly’); But then, instead of declaring do_this_hourly, for … Read more
you could use something like this, WP Crontrol to see what those events might be and when they are scheduled to run ( interval ), but the time of the day ( when they run ) is controlled by visitors viewing your site ( which is why they run during the day, because that when … Read more
Welcome to the forum! By default, wp-cron runs every time an HTTP request is made to a WordPress site. For this reason, really popular websites have found it necessary to disable the default wp-cron functionality and replace it with a real cron job. There are several articles available on how to do this. Using the … Read more
Question: Will each instance try to run the same job Yes! If you have 5 machines running the same site, they’ll all try to run the cron job. It’ll be inconsistent, but if machine 1 triggers WP Cron and there’s an event ready to run, and machine 2 triggers WP Cron, then machine 2 will … Read more
If your site is using HTTP Authentication (you know, the dialog/prompt that pops up and asks for your username and password), WP Cron will not work. This is because WP Cron does not present the proper login credentials when making the request. To help with this, there is a free plugin that enables WP Cron … Read more
WP CLI to the rescue! Instead of using php and trying to figure out the rest, install it on the server and just have your cron execute wp cron event run –due-now –path=/home/mysite_staging/www/example.com/
Ok, things are working now. Not sure if it was fact that cron environment didn’t have its PATH set as needed, or if there was other reason, but I followed the instructions here: https://peterwilson.cc/real-wordpress-cron-with-wp-cli/ and https://purpleturtlecreative.com/blog/2020/02/how-to-replace-the-wordpress-cron-with-a-linux-cron-job/ So now, my crontab is PATH=/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin:/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin:/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/sbin:/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin * * * * * /bin/bash /folder/wordpresscron.sh (with newline after the crontab entry) … Read more