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
This is an old question, but hopefully this helps someone facing the same issue. We can use wp_get_schedule( $hook ) to retrieve the cron schedule for the hook. Then we can use wp_get_schedules() to retrieve the supported cron recurrences. Find the correct array value and return it. /** * Retrieve Cron interval for hook. * … Read more
The _get_cron_array() function gets the ‘cron’ option out of the database. The cron option contains an array consisting of a series of unix-timestamps and action hooks. So, when the timestamp is reached, then the action hook is called. The timestamp of 1465529020 is the equivalent of June 10th, 2016, at 3:23am in UTC time. The … Read more
WP-Cron is not intended to be that precise, and should not be used if you have to have things scheduled at specific times. WP-Cron is a “best effort” scheduling mechanism, and it cannot guarantee run timing like a real cron system can. If you need precision of this nature, the only real answer is to … Read more
Looking at the file documentation inside wp-cron.php it seems it’s absolutely possible to just call $ php wp-cron.php: /** * A pseudo-CRON daemon for scheduling WordPress tasks * * WP Cron is triggered when the site receives a visit. In the scenario * where a site may not receive enough visits to execute scheduled tasks … Read more