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System Cron job not firing

You need to first create the interval for 30 mins. Use filter: add_filter(‘cron_schedules’,’my_cron_schedules’, 999 ); function my_cron_schedules($schedules) { $schedules[‘thirty_min’] = array( ‘interval’ => 1800, // Every 30 mins ‘display’ => __( ‘Every 30 mins’ ), ); return $schedules; } Then you need to execute the scheduled job: wp_schedule_event( time(), ‘thirty_min’, ‘your_event_hook’ ); Then add the … Read more

Why is `wp_unschedule_event` not working

wp-cron behaviour when there are multiple queued tasks

Sync user meta fields using Wp cron job

If you want to remove the functionality of the original plugin, try adding this to your theme’s functions.php file function add_thirty_day_cron($schedules) { $schedules[‘thirtydays’] = array( ‘interval’ => 30 * DAY_IN_SECONDS, ‘display’ => __( ‘Every 30 days’) ); return $schedules; } add_filter(‘cron_schedules’,’add_thirty_day_cron’);//adds 30 day interval add_action(‘do_meta_sync’, ‘my_meta_sync’);//hook for cron function my_meta_sync() { if (function_exists(‘msf_action_callback’)) msf_action_callback(); } … Read more

Issues When Recursively Calling wp_schedule_single_event()

As I can understand from your code, you need to run the code only once to get the data, but if it failed, so run again once, untill you get the data then stop. according to this understanding we can think like the following: We need to depend on wp_schedule_event to make sure the event … Read more

Scheduling a cron job from a function that is ran outside functions.php?

Solved, although in a pretty poor manner. If I move the scheduler function wp_schedule_single_event( time() + 600, ‘mail_event_hook’ ); into functions.php it starts working. Not sure why, but this is the curse of self taught developers.

WP Cron jobs loops infinitely

I usually define a IF state and use wp_clear_scheduled_hook function. See example: if (get_option(‘atenasupervisor_scheduler’) <> ‘Stop’) { echo ‘Active (‘. get_option(‘atenasupervisor_scheduler’).’)</strong></div>’; } else { wp_clear_scheduled_hook( ‘atenasupervisor_my_email’ ); echo ‘Not active (‘. get_option(‘atenasupervisor_scheduler’).’)</strong></div>’; } “