First things first: Say hello! to $wpdb The wpdb Class is what you take to interact with the database on it’s most basic level. Forget all those mysql_* functions, when it comes to WordPress. The core has a nice wrapper, that makes most things pretty safe for you (hint: SQL-injections and other bad boys). Or … Read more
custom cron interval is not working
It looks to me that this line add_action(‘obr_scheduled_task’, array(&$this, ‘obr_activate_scheduled_task’)); should be add_action(‘obr_scheduled_task’, array(&$this, ‘obr_scheduled_task’)); otherwise you are re-scheduling on every page visit. Edit: Here is a logger that can be useful when debugging wp-cron: function my_logger($var){ $logfile=”/tmp/logger.txt”; // EDIT this to your needs file_put_contents($logfile, date(“Y-m-d: H:i:s”,time()).” — “.print_r($var, true).”\n”, FILE_APPEND); } You can use … Read more
If what you are seeing are hits to /wp-cron.php, there is nothing really that prevents a plugin or malicious bots from making a request to that file, with or without DISABLE_WP_CRON set to true, but with it set to TRUE the actual cron process should be killed.
Well, it isn’t the best tutorial I’ve came across, so I get why you’re confused… Smashing Magazine has a little bit better tutorial on this subject. Some quotes from this article that should help you understand how does WP Cron work… WordPress Cron is what many people refer to as a “pseudo-cron system.” The difference … Read more
Alright, here’s some code I just whipped up. Completely untested, just wrote it right off the cuff…so don’t expect it to work 100% when you drop it in, but the core concept is there, as is a decent amount of the legwork add_action( ‘my_filter_posts_content’, ‘my_filter_content’ ); add_action( ‘save_post’, ‘my_set_content_filter’ ); if( !wp_next_scheduled( ‘my_filter_posts_content’ ) ) … Read more
OK, so I’ve tested your code and I’m pretty sure it can’t run even once… And here’s why… If you’ll take a look at wp_schedule_event you’ll see this check at the top of the function: if ( !isset( $schedules[$recurrence] ) ) return false; It means that you can’t schedule event with unknown recurrence. So let’s … Read more
So of course as soon as I post this I find the solution. After looking for it for a day. I had to include the file handling the request_filesystem_credentials manually in the function. For reference this was require ABSPATH . ‘wp-admin/includes/file.php’;
Ah… worked it out, though normally I rely on the traffic of the blog to hit wordpress’ fake cron I did have a daily crontab with wget to make sure site was fresh just before doing an export for an integration… but to stop it downloading the response of the request (in this case an … Read more
This is only a partial answer. You can use Cron View to see what crons are still active on your blog. If you find some crons that shouldn’t be there then maybe my answer here will help you remove that cron: Cron jobs for deactivated plugins