How to know if a script started by wp_cron is still active?
There is a plugin called WP-Cron Control to check your scheduled events. Other way to check it is using WP-CLI via command-line, using this command: wp cron event list Hope this helps!
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Cron job to run just once per day using external cron service
wp_schedule_single_event‘s $timestamp is the time you want the event to occur. This must be in a UNIX timestamp format. WP cron uses UTC/GMT time, not local time. Use time(), which is always GMT in WordPress. time() number of seconds since the Unix Epoch If you want to add a day, you need to add seconds: … Read more
How to create and run cronjob in WP without using the plugin?
i got this proplem with hight load in my wppit.com so i checked my cpanel and i found the cronjob casue this hiegh load and because WordPress has to work on all sort of different platforms, OS’s and configurations, it can’t rely that there will be a cronjob service on the server that can handle … Read more
Use cron to create a non blocking task
For instance, since the configured cron tasks will only be run on page load, the task might not be run at the desired interval if there are no visitors. To prevent this, you need to use your operating system’s task scheduler. For this, you need to define define(‘DISABLE_WP_CRON’, true); in your wp-config.php file. After that, … Read more
Code does not work in class implementation but works fine in functions.php file
As Nathan has said in his comment above, the update_events() function needs to be a public function, not a private function: public scope to make that variable/function available from anywhere, other classes and instances of the object. private scope when you want your variable/function to be visible in its own class only. protected scope when … Read more
Wp Cron and WordPress Updates
If I disable wp-cron from config, will automatic updates still work? No, neither will scheduled posts, transient cleanup, trash clearing after 30 days, or automatic plugin updates, and some other things. Anything that relies on timed or scheduled activities will break. It seems you already know the solution, though the real solution is to identify … Read more
When running WordPress Cron manually, it shows WP-Cron spawning is disabled. What is WP-Cron spawning?
What is WP-Cron spawning? First off, let’s see what WP-Cron is and how it works: WP-Cron is how WordPress handles scheduling time-based tasks in WordPress, e.g. checking for core updates and publishing scheduled post. WP-Cron works by checking, on every page load, a list of scheduled tasks to see what needs to be run. Any … Read more
Cancel/Stop a currently ongoing scheduled cron event?
Removing / un-scheduling obsolete cron jobs can be achieved using this code snippet. add_action(“init”, “remove_cron_job”); function remove_cron_job() { wp_clear_scheduled_hook(“my_schedule_hook”); } Change the my_schedule_hook to cron’s hook name and add the code in your theme’s function.php file.
WordPress, how to run a function every 12 december?
Unfortunately, you cannot run script on every 12 December. WP Cron can be only defined as interval from first execution of script, so you have to execute script on 12 December with one year interval to do exactly what you want. I will suggest you to create WP Cron job with daily interval and check … Read more
How to force ‘cron_schedules’ every minute instead 1 hour?
You have the wrong period alias in your code You added your personal period in my_cron_schedules() as 61sec: $schedules[“61sec”] = array( but use it in setup_schedule() as 61sek: wp_schedule_event( current_time(‘timestamp’), ’61sek’ , ‘expire_ogl’); The other parts of the code look right.