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I'm trying to set up a scheduled task in my Wordpress installation which will (eventually) run a script to send an email once a day with a load of data in.

However I can't seem to get a scheduled task to fire at all. I am testing it with a 2 minute interval to see if I can get it working. What I have so far is below, and is at the bottom of my functions.php file. Any idea where I'm going wrong?

add_filter('cron_schedules','my_cron_definer');
function my_cron_definer($schedules){
    $schedules['twomin'] = array(
        'interval'=> 120,
        'display'=>  __('Once Every 2 Minutes')
    );
    return $schedules;
}

add_action('my_periodic_action','my_periodic_function');
function my_periodic_function(){
    mail('[email protected]','Test!', 'Test Message');
}
wp_schedule_event(time(), 'twomin', 'my_periodic_action');

I'm aware my Wordpress site needs to be getting it's pages visited for the function to run, so I have been clicking around on the site hoping to trigger my function but no luck!

Note: I have swapped my real email address out!

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You have to schedule your event in a hook, for example in after_setup_theme or wp actions:

add_filter('cron_schedules','my_cron_definer');
function my_cron_definer($schedules){
    $schedules['twomin'] = array(
        'interval'=> 120,
        'display'=>  __('Once Every 2 Minutes')
    );
    return $schedules;
}

add_action('my_periodic_action','my_periodic_function');
function my_periodic_function(){
    mail('[email protected]','Test!', 'Test Message');
}

add_action( 'wp', 'wpse8170_setup_events' );
// or add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'wpse8170_setup_events' );
function wpse8170_setup_events() {
    if ( !wp_next_scheduled( 'my_periodic_action' ) ) {
        wp_schedule_event(time(), 'twomin', 'my_periodic_action');
    }
}
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  • Hi, thanks for your answer. I have given your example a go but I'm still having no luck. Is there anything else you're aware of (not necessarily related to the above code) that could be preventing it from working?
    – Probocop
    Jun 12, 2012 at 11:06
  • @Probocop it's very strange... try to display something in your my_periodic_function call to check if it works. If it works, then mail function is not working.
    – Eugene Manuilov
    Jun 12, 2012 at 11:45
  • I've got a test script written (which will eventually be the scheduled script) that has the wp_mail (and has had mail) function within which works if I manually run the script. Unless there is a reason why the mail functions wouldn't work from within functions.php?
    – Probocop
    Jun 12, 2012 at 13:13
  • While I'd still like to know how to do this, I've abandoned this approach in favour of using a scheduled task instead (site is in IIS). Thanks!
    – Probocop
    Jun 13, 2012 at 13:10

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