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
No, the WP-Cron tasks run asynchronously from the viewing user. They should not see any delay. Although if your task takes more than a minute, it may never finish since most hosts are setup to kill PHP processes after 30 seconds.
Or, you could use WP-CLI which was developed for scenarios like these. After a short installation like this $ curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar $ chmod +x wp-cli.phar $ sudo mv wp-cli.phar /usr/local/bin/wp You can run your scheduled tasks like so $ wp cron event run –due-now –path=/var/www/mywebsite.com/ or via crontab (every 5mins) */5 * * * … Read more
Due to your server configuration, you may need to use the alternate cron method, which uses redirect rather than http loopback. Try adding the following to your wp-config.php file: // Alternate cron method define( ‘ALTERNATE_WP_CRON’, true );
For Q1 – One for each path / site. Each site has its own cron (jobs) internally. So, it is possible to fine-tune the frequency. For example, a low-traffic site may not have lots of cron jobs. So, the cron could be executed less frequently than a site that requires frequent updates. For Q2 – … Read more
Well, as I was working on an existing site which as maaaaany plugins already installed, I figured out that there was a define(DISABLE_WP_CRON,true); So when you seems to have the same problem than me. Do a research of define(DISABLE_WP_CRON,true); in your files.
time() only returns current time, it doesn’t accept any inputs. $time = time(); // works out to 2016-04-11T12:11:34+00:00 What you want is midnight tomorrow: $tomorrow = strtotime( ‘tomorrow’ ); // works out to 2016-04-12T00:00:00+00:00 Note that these are PHP functions and they ignore WP timezone, since it resets PHP time zone to UTC. So if … Read more