It depends. The initial page load trigger should not but performance may degrade as visitors browse your site until the Cron job is finished. Is the scheduled event you plan on using PHP or DB intensive? How often will it run? Here’s how it works The scheduled event (aka Cron job) will be initialized once … Read more
I just found the answer to my question over on stackoverflow…and thought I’d copy the answer over here for future reference since WP folks are probably more likely to look here. When WP_Cron fires a scheduled job it does so via a call to wp_remote_post(). The trick in that answer is to hook into cron_request … Read more
You can specify when the first execution will be performed using the first parameter of the wp_schedule_event function. So, according to your code, the first execution will be immediately and the following one will be in 7,884,000 seconds (which is around 91.25 days). I do not recommend this approach because the WP cron scheduled periods … Read more
If you want a quick programmatic way of looping through everything you have in the cron row inside wp_options and you have access to the site’s database directly (either in a local development environment or on a webhost), you can run something like this via the command line: mysql $YOUR_DB_NAME -e “SELECT option_value FROM wp_options … Read more
When you register a scheduled event for WordPress’ cron, the 3rd argument is a hook name: wp_schedule_event( time(), ‘hourly’, ‘my_hourly_event’ ); And you add a function to run on this hook with add_action(): add_action( ‘my_hourly_event’, ‘do_this_hourly’ ); This will cause do_this_hourly() to run whenever the scheduled event runs. This works because when the scheduled time … Read more
Since wp_mail is pluggable, we can selectively override it. I run the following code in my general functionality plugin: /** * Email Async. * * We override the wp_mail function for all non-cron requests with a function that simply * captures the arguments and schedules a cron event to send the email. */ if ( … Read more
WordPress Cron is scheduled but not running
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cron.php being constantly deleted [closed]
AS said by Fleuv you can use wp_schedule_event() function to execute your code like this add_action(‘my_twfours_action’, ‘my_twfours_action_fn’); my_twfours_action_fn (){ //this code will execute every 24 hours } wp_schedule_event( time(), ‘daily’, ‘my_twfours_action’ ); //adding new cron schedule event To create your 2 minutes filter and then scheduling a cron jo is like function my_two_minutes_filter( $schedules ) … Read more