Questions tagged [wp-cron]
wp-cron refers to a WordPress subsystem that allows for the scheduled execution of code
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Real cron killed my cron system. Only define( 'ALTERNATE_WP_CRON', true ); works
my host recommended me to disable wp cron for a real cron due to excessive executions.
the cron system broken immediately and scheduled tasks were not happening.
deleting real cron and turning on ...
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wp-cron.php not being triggered by wp_remote_post in spawn_cron()
I am trying to debug failing publication of scheduled posts. On a completely new wordpress installation, (using the default docker image), scheduled posts fail to get published when the correct time ...
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change time interval of scheduled woocommerce cron job
Since woocommerce version 3.4 it is possible to anonymize order data either manually or via a scheduled interval (Days / Weeks / Months / Years). Now I would like to customize the interval to twice ...
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Why is wp-cron only executing on page visit?
As I have understood wp-cron runs after a HTTP-Request to the given domain. Can someone explain to me why this is the case? I don't quite understand why the execution of (scheduled) wp-cron events are ...
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Server cron job not working
I want to setup server cron job for my WordPress website. This is what I have done so far.
I added this line to my wp-config file.
define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true);
I added this command for setting ...
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How to execute/run a JavaScript file everyday
I am working with the https://www.themoviedb.org/ API to fetch data tv shows.
For tv shows under "Airing today", I need to update those shows every day.I have implemented data fetching and saving to ...
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Auto Draft Specific Categories Posts after a certain number of Days
I want to put posts from two categories to automatically draft after the number of days like 90 Days from the date of Publish and I created a function with the help of some codes in other forums, but ...
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Schedule several instances of the same action with cron
I have a simple cron job set up in wordpress:
add_action( 'event_hook', 'do_this_function');
wp_schedule_single_event( time() + 300, 'event_hook', array('testvariable') );
I use the function ...
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Scheduling a cron job from a function that is ran outside functions.php?
I have a very simple function and hook registration in my functions.php, like this:
function do_this_thingy(){
// I am sending myself some simple admin report mails, tested & works
}
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Unknown requests on my WP Site
I am using ipstack to receive some geo details from my visitors. The free version allows 10.000 requests per month and according to them I have reached 75% of those already. I have never ever had 7....
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wp_schedule_event doesn't work
I wrote a plugin which now needs a daily scheduled event. For testing purposes I've written an hourly scheduled event.
class MyPlugin {
public function __construct() {
add_action('...
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Create cron job for update translations automatically
I would like to set cron job in WordPress with WP Crontrol for update translations automatically. If I saw it right I have to create a PHP code (simple plugin) and then schedule it with mentioned ...
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delete cronjob events with no action (wp-control)
I am quite new to Wordpress Cronjobs. I deactivated the wp-cron function via wp-config.php and set a server cronjob to run wp-cron.php
To add new cronjobs, i installed the wp-crontrol plugin. I was ...
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What is sensible way to schedule an email/notificatoin to be sent at specific time?
I have a wordpress site I am working on for administering guitar lessons. As part of my weekly lessons, I have a live video chat. I would like to send a notification one hour before the chat starts.
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get_posts query results out of order but shows correct in php snippets plugin
I have a small plugin made for a custom site where a new word is to be picked via wp cron . The oldest (lowest ID #) custom post type should be selected in get_posts and returned. However, it always ...
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How to Schedule (run) another Cron Schedule inside of a Cron Action
i am using this code to run a daily normal checkup cron... but i have another cron which will happen every ten minutes and update each user record according to my condition... but how do i run a new ...
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Run cronjob with browser request
Open the wp-cron.php page into the browser, eg. opening this url
http://example.com/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron run the cronjob or WordPress block request made by browser?
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Trigger background job using AJAX
I need a second opinion and a sanity check if the solution I'm trying to implement will work.
I need to implement a way to run a script that would otherwise be blocking if I would run it using just ...
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When does wp-cron fire?
Where in the WP load order does wp-cron fire? I cannot seem to find this information, and I need to know if I need hook into specific other actions, or not.
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WP-Cron: Cannot execute crons on servers without registered domains
My test environment does not execute WP-Crons properly because cURL can't connect to the "fake" domain.
I'm using WP 5.23 on an NGINX server without a registered domain (by editing my hosts file). ...
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post_exists stops working in a scheduled event
I am creating a wordpress plugin that takes an article from one of my wordpress sites and then posts it to different wordpress site. For testing purposes, I want it to pull an article at random and ...
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Do WP-Cron events run simultaneously if scheduled for exact same time?
I've noticed that some wp-cron events might be scheduled for the EXACT same time. i.e.
wp_update_plugins() 2019-09-29 15:42:54 (5 hours 23 minutes)
wp_update_themes() 2019-09-29 15:42:54 (5 hours 23 ...
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get_users(); Is an Undefined Function When Used in Cron Job
I am Using a Wordpress cron to update some usermeta of each user every 24 hours. For which i created a cronjob using the interface provided by my hosting provider.
The Cron runs, but the code cannot ...
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wp_schedule_single_event not working: cron job is triggered but nothing gets executed
I'm trying to execute a piece of code asynchronous. I tried to use wp_schedule_single_event like this in my WP plugin:
function my_async_test(){
$fp = fopen(wp_upload_dir()['basedir'] . '/log.txt', '...
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How to Schedule Cronjobs for start of every month and year
I have been trying to run a function at first of every month, and first of every year. And i wanted to run at 12am exact. Below I have shown the function. When is schedule it for daily it works ...
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wp-cron event doesn't run when custom login API is enabled
I have a cron job on my wordpress site. which I would like to run every hour. I also have a custom login function on my site: users are directed to my site via another site which passes login ...
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CRON job to update wp_usermeta value each day or week based on server time
My Wordpress site has a registration field that asks members how many weeks pregnant they are.
If a member insert 5 then 7 days later that integer needs to increase to 6.
Pseudo code for what I ...
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Update post status from “publish” to “trash” prior to year 2018
I want to update all posts with status from published to trashed or delete permanently. whose published date is 2018 and previous using WordPress cronjob.
Example:
If I have 209085 posts, 500 posts ...
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Scheduled post delete - can't pass the cron arguments
Thanks to everyone who takes a look. I've spent countless hours trying to make this work, but no matter what I tried it still doesn't work. Hopefully I'm missing something simple, but I'm stuck...
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Issues When Recursively Calling wp_schedule_single_event()
I run a site where I make an external API call. I want to have a failure case such that, if the API call fails, it will call wp_schedule_single_event() to re-try the API call in +4 hours.
If that ...
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Old content revision: send email notification to author on the 'Review Date'
I'm trying to find a way to configure email reminders for authors to manually review content. Here are my requirements:
All pages, posts and CPTs should have the 'Review Date' field. It
will probably ...
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Trigger WP CRON from a date in a Custom Field?
I have Custom Post Types which have a vanilla 'date-picker' for each post.
My Custom Posts are actually events that are always in the future.
I'd like to know if I can somehow trigger an alert when ...
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Convert post type to another
I am designing a website intended to list local events. Ideally registered users would be able to upload new events from the front end and the website would display all the upcoming events in ...
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Execute code at the end of each quarter of year
I need to execute a script once every time we reach the end of a quarter (30th of March, 30th of June, 30th of September and 31st of December.
I've found wp_schedule_event on the documentation (https:...
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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 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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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 ...
