Questions tagged [wp-cron]
wp-cron refers to a WordPress subsystem that allows for the scheduled execution of code
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Usage of predefined actions in WP Cron
I have a working wordpress cron, that is executing as expected. Inside the cronjob I want to use the action plugins_loaded.
/**
* Daily event.
*/
public function ...
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WordPress CRON job working when reloading the page
I'm Trying to scheduling wp_cron job in my website to send email everyday without opening my website but this is not happening. This work when user come to the website or reload a page.
Here is my ...
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Trying to configure cron to get next value from array on each run
So I have this block of code and it is driving me crazy:
if ( ! wp_next_scheduled( 'change_quote_hook_short' ) ) {
wp_schedule_event( time(), 'one_minute', 'change_quote_hook_short' );
}
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How to auto delete posts with specific keywords titled,tagged via cron?
I'd like to automatically delete all posts which contain specific keywords in their titles and tags via cron. How to do?
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WP All Import manual Cron
I am having problem to set up Cron to import stock. In Plugin WP-All Import i have two urls. One which starts import, another one is checking process and if it's stuck it kicks it back on.
I'm runing ...
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interrupt hook background job
I am running background job by using add_action hook, hook starts on REST API CALL:
if ( ! wp_next_scheduled( 'bg_job_hook' ) ) {
wp_schedule_single_event( time(), 'bg_job_hook');
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Cron not sending wp-mail()
I have a problem with a cron schedule function, it does not want to send an email with the wp_mail() function.
This is my code:
It is placed in the functions.php
<?php
add_filter('...
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Automatically delete posts one by one depending on published time
How can I delete the posts one by one depending on the published time of the post every 24 hour?
Why this snippet deleting all the posts at once, even if they are not published in the same hour or ...
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Why would wp_schedule_single_event get delayed start?
I'm using wp_schedule_single_event to run a function in the background immediately when a logged in user visits the dashboard page. The problem I'm having is that the time between triggering and the ...
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Scheduled cron event removed from list automatically after sometime
I have used two plugins for cron
1) Advance Cron Manager
2) WP Control
I have added cron in both plugins, but it removes from queue after some time when there is no activity on website (frontenf/...
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Automatically running Scheduled Actions
Is there a way to automatically run scheduled action (Tools -> scheduled actions).
At the moment it says they are 'Pending'. They work fine if I run them manually but I need it to run as soon as my ...
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cron job for custom post type not working since Wordpress 5
Since Wordpress 5.1 (or 5 in general) I have a problem with a cron job.
This cron top is filtering expired custom posts (coupon) and will mark it "not reliable" however its not working anymore. ...
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What am I doing wrong creating post draft via wp-cron? (wp_schedule_event & wp_insert_post)
So I've been googling and apparently a lot of people have struggled with this for the past X years and there doesn't seem to be any clear responses on Stack Overflow.
What I am developing is a ...
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WP-CRON is not working
my website is running on a ubuntu 18.04 vps and im using nginx
i recently noticed that wp-cron is not getting excecuted properly so i installed
WP-Cron Status Checker plugin and it shows
cURL error ...
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WP Cron regularly causes “Environment health Degraded on AWS”: Happens with HTTP 200 as well as HTTP 500 sometimes
This problem is ocurring regularly and I get dozens of notifications from AWS. Example:
Timestamp: Tue Feb 26 17:26:00 UTC 2019 Message: Environment health
has transitioned from Ok to Degraded. ...
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Call do_action() within WordPress cronjob
I've programmed a cronjob in WordPress which get's executed every 5 minutes. In the function of the cronjob im trying to perform a do_action:
error_log('Send Email');
do_action( '...
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Use a cron job to automatically create posts based on dates
I have a custom post type called cpt1.
I need to run a function that on a daily base Loops through cpt1 and then check the dates. This is done by using cron job to trigger.
Within this loop ...
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Scheduling WP cron jobs
I am new with cron jobs and I have to schedule cron jobs. There are a lot of cron jobs in my website which are running randomly but I want all these to run at specific time. Actually I do not want ...
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Php cron job (wp-cron) not working
I try to create a php cron job with help of the WP Control plugin. The purpose is to delete all files in the uploads directory for the current year and month.
I use this code:
$files = glob('./wp-...
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Media Library Latency, Lag, CRON?
When I add images to my Media Library they aren't available in the Media Library for about an hour. It seems like there is a queue or some sort of CRON that fires. The image appears in the media ...
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Automated mark posts as featured every day
Hello Wordpress Community,
I want to build myself a "recipe of the day" functionality.
I'm looking for a way to mark 3 Custom Post Types per day as "Featured Posts" by a plugin or Cronjob.
The ...
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Check if event was scheduled - schedule event only once
I have some programming error in my wordpress plugin. When its running, then it keeps registering cron job to the wordpress. I wrote the plugin as a class:
class Cleverstart_Woofio extends ...
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Run function at a specific time of a day
I have tried this solution but I can't get it to work
Run function at specific time
Here is my example:
//this is for testing purposes
function my_cron_schedules($schedules){
if(!isset($schedules["...
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Use WP Cron to Clear a Page Cache?
I'm using a plugin (Comet Cache) to save static versions of a particular page I have on my site.
Inside the plugin, I have the cache set to clear every 2 hours (that way this page can show the ...
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Most efficient way to trigger wp-cron through system cron.
I have recently decided it would be best if i disable the built in wordpress cron function and move to the system cron which will activate the wordpress cron every 15 minutes.
I am wondering which ...
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wp_get_schedule and wp_next_scheduled don't find my scheduled wp-cron job
I have tried the following two approaches, each resulting that the cronjob gets added over and over again, until I remove the code. I literally had it scheduled hundreds of times...
if(!...
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WP CRON runs only the first time
Here is my code
function cron_add_weekly( $schedules ) {
$schedules['seconds'] = array(
'interval' => 5,
'display' => __( '5 Seconds' )
);
return $schedules;
}
...
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Where in the page load code is wp-cron triggered?
I just spent way too much time trying to troubleshoot why my wp-cron job wasn't running. It seems, under 4.9.8, the only way to run cron is by calling the wp-cron.php file as a URL.
The docs say ...
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Detect if Cron is Running
Many times I have code and I want to make sure it only runs in a cron context, or it never runs in a cron context.
Is there an is_cron_running style function?
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wp_set_post_terms not updating with WP Cron Event
I have a jobs board custom post type (job_listings) with a taxonomy (cvl_job_status) attached with various tags assigned, namely; Live, Filled and Expired.
Each job post has a custom field (...
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WP_CRON issue with UTC and local time
I have made a plugin to change some user metadata on a schedule according to the wp_cron function.
If the current time is say between their lunch hours (that is in their user profile as date('g:i a', ...
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Sync user meta fields using Wp cron job
I'm searching about using wp cron job to sync two user meta fields monthly.
I'm using a very awesome plugin called "SyncFields" and it works fine automaticaly,
But I'm looking for sync it every month.
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Can run cron event manually with WP-CLI but not with any plugin, unsure if it's being scheduled
I have a cron event that I am able to manually run with
wp cron event run --all
When I go to my dashboard and go to WP-Crontrol OR Advanced Cron Manager, I can see my event listed and tell it to ...
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Wordpress Cron job, 302 response
I am trying to debug a cron job in wordpress. It's supposed to update user hours but doesn't, and after putting some test statements in the code, I'm not too sure it's even running.
I have debug ...
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Cron job cannot use “wp_remote_post”
I've written a script that is running once an hour on my site but it's not working. I've been trying to debug and unfortunately I haven't gotten very far. I'm getting the following error:
Uncaught ...
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wp_split_shared_term_batch messing up upgraded ACF 5 data
After upgrading Wordpress and associated plugins to the latest version on a dev server and migrating the source files and database to the production server, the data from ACF is different.
prod and ...
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How to Trigger WP CRON at Local Timestamp?
I am trying to schedule WP Cron that should run every midnight at Local Timestamp, but it is taking UTC only. This the code I am trying with,
if ( ! wp_next_scheduled( 'midnight_cron' ) ) {
$...
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WP cron and update post meta
I try to create a scheduled cron job which runs every hour, Its my first time working with wp-cron.
In the cron function, I want to update post meta values, if some conditions are met.
I also tested ...
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Wordpress function, Run using Crontab
I have disabled cronjobs on my nginx server, as it is better to run from crontab.
define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true);
How could I run a custom wordpress function using Crontab, once per day?
This ...
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Cronjob function not executed - negative seconds
I've created a custom function that read an XML file and import it in woocommerce products. The XML files are exported by an external platform every day in the website ftp.
I replaced the wordpress ...
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WP-CLI cron on multisite using WP-Toolkit “succeded”, but callback not executed
I'm trying to trigger WordPress crons within a multisite using Plesks WordPress toolkit.
Generally it is working, but the callback doesn't seemed to be executed.
The command to execute crons:
/...
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Wordpress cronjob get scheduled but function does not run
I am trying to schedule wordpress cron job having dynamic hooks. I am developing a plugin and the cron jobs are to be scheduled dynamically. I need a way to name the hooks that directly corresponds to ...
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How to make sure WP-CRON job loops through all posts?
I am using WP-Crontrol and have some CRON jobs running daily to check the age of the posts. If the post is 2 days older, they will be deleted.
This works but for some reason, only some of the three ...
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WP Cron - Run Cron after evey 15 minutes at a specific time for the next three hours
In WordPress I want to schedule an Event which will run my function (hook) at a specific time (let's say at 6PM) and then it will run again after 15 minutes (means at 6:15 PM) and keep running after ...
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Add lines to wp-config.php file for disabling wp cron job automatically
Is it possible to add lines to wp-config.php with some codes inside theme (like may be on theme activation)
i want add the below code without editing the wp-config file manually
define('...
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cron.php being constantly deleted [closed]
I have a problem with a WordPress installation (even a fresh one), one and only one server. The cron.php file is being deleted in a random time. The site had an infection but it was reinstalled ...
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Is there way to run a code every time when any cron is run?
publish_post is an action triggered whenever a post is updated and its new status is "publish".
Is there similar action which is trigger when cron is run including WordPress default crons?
I am ...
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Scheduling posts on wordpress adds wrong seconds as post_date
When scheduling a post in wordpress, e.g. 15:50, I always see that as time there are always seconds added at the end, e.g. 15:50:48, which ruins my cronjobs and makes them run 1 minutes later (if I ...
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How to make sure that only one wp_cron() runs at a time?
I have around 20 wp_cron() functions like the following code. Almost all crons run hourly; a few are daily.
if ( ! wp_next_scheduled( 'my_task_hook' ) ) {
wp_schedule_event( time(), 'hourly', '...
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WordPress Multisite cron jobs using cron tab
U have a WordPress multisite install with subfolders. U'm trying to set up cron jobs. I know I can setup for each site with,
HTTP_HOST=sub.example.com php wp-cron.php > /dev/null
But this doesn't ...
