You’d be better off using the wordpress API: function wp_register_cron_endpoint() { register_rest_route( ‘crons’, ‘/run_cron’, array( ‘methods’ => ‘GET’, ‘callback’ => ‘run_crons’ )); } add_action( ‘rest_api_init’, ‘wp_register_cron_endpoint’ ); function run_crons(){ /*** Do whatever you want ***/ } Then you can hit http://example.com/crons/run_crons and you’ll A)Trigger wp_cron based on the wp_load and B) Do whatever you want … Read more
Some hosts (Especially shared servers) don’t allow Cron Jobs as it can ‘supposedly’ slow their servers down. I’d send them a ticket to ask.
So what I came up with, which seems to work is the following: This function will search by the user id and find the corresponding cron job function search_user_cron( $hook, $user_id ) { $crons = _get_cron_array(); foreach( $crons as $timestamp => $cron ) if( isset( $cron[$hook] ) ) foreach( $cron as $jobs ) foreach( $jobs … Read more
WordPress Cron Job Counting Up and Not Down
The wp_schedule_single_event function in cron.php (http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.7.1/src/wp-includes/cron.php#L0) has a comment which says: // don’t schedule a duplicate if there’s already an identical event due in the next 10 minutes So I’d say that no it won’t trigger lots of calls for earlier in the day.
Cron Lock Timeout, when to use?
I have figured a way. There is a WP ALLIMPORT plugin. Here is the link if anyone else need help Download wpallimport plugin
You could use php_sapi_name(). See this demo lifted from the developer docs <?php $sapi_type = php_sapi_name(); if (substr($sapi_type, 0, 3) == ‘cgi’) { echo “Your are probably a human”; } else { echo “You are probably not a human”; } ?> You could just apply this kind of conditional at the start of your script.
It depends what you mean by “I want the test.php file to be called not earlier then a specific time each day”. Setting up a cron job is very straightforward, you just need to simply do: <?php register_activation_hook( __FILE__, ‘prefix_activation’ ); /** * On activation, set a time, frequency and name of an action hook … Read more
As you mentioned, WordPress by default only runs the wp_cron when the WordPress site is visited. This of course will cause problems if you are needing to schedule some event reliably, and you aren’t getting consistent traffic to your site. To resolve this, you can disable the default functionality of the wordpress cron by adding … Read more