Devs I have a WP-cronjob running that is supposed to import some pictures and set them as attachments for a specific post. But I’m apparently unable to do so while running it as a WP-cronjob – it works just fine when i run it on “init” for exampel. But as soon as i try to … Read more
I am using WordPress v.4.1 and all the plugins and the theme are up to date. I see in my log files too many of these… xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx – – [02/Jan/2015:13:30:27 +0200] “POST /wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron=1420198227.5184459686279296875000 HTTP/1.0” 200 – “-” “WordPress/217; http://www.example.com” where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of the server that the website is hosted and “http://www.example.com” … Read more
I get this PHP Warning when accessing my fresh WordPress 3.4.1 install (Norwegian language). Warning: fopen(URL_TO_MY_WORDPRESS_PAGE/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron=1341476616.7605190277099609375000): failed to open stream: Connection timed out in PATH_TO_MY_WP_FILES/wp-includes/class-http.php on line 923 This is of course with the WP_DEBUG flag set to true, as it’s running on a development server. This happens intermittently, so it seems to be a … Read more
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’, ‘my_task_hook’ ); } add_action( ‘my_task_hook’, ‘my_task_function’ ); function my_task_function() { //Complex Code } To increase server performance, and so as not to keep getting server … Read more
If a user visits a site and his visit triggers a cron job that is quite intensive, the page load speed will be slower for him right? As I understand the page doesn’t wait for the cron job to execute before loading, but since the cron job would be running in parallel, it might still … Read more
Looks like WordPress unnecessarily fire WP CRON on every page load. I’m thinking, instead of having it run on every visit, why not just schedule it to run every 5 minutes via server? I could simply trigger wp-cron.php every five minutes and achieve desired result? Is there any downside to this? 4 There is no … Read more
I’m finding this string appended to the end of my URLs sometimes: /?doing_wp_cron Does anyone know what it for? How can I remove it? 4 It’s a sign that you have ALTERNATE_WP_CRON defined in your wp-config.php In order to do some background processing (like publishing scheduled posts), WordPress redirects you to the URL with ?doing_wp_cron … Read more
I’ve got a WordPress cron job that sends an email periodically and saves the timestamp when it was sent as an option, and I’d like to display a date on a settings page. Something like, “The last email was sent on ‘x’”. I’m on the west coast of the US, so our time is currently … Read more
The goal I want to use wp_schedule_single_event( ) to execute a single event that sends me an e-mail 8 minutes after the user submits a form. The issue The following code is in my functions.php: function nkapi_send_to_system( $args ) { wp_mail( ‘xxx’, ‘xxx’, $args ); } add_action( ‘nkapi_send’, ‘nkapi_send_to_system’ ); function schedule_event( $id ) { … Read more
I have a function to be run every 5 minutes. I’ve referred following from the codex: <?php wp_schedule_event(time(), ‘hourly’, ‘my_schedule_hook’, $args); ?> I want to run this function just every 5 minuets regardless of when to start. How can I this? Also it says codex says cron will be run when a visitor visits to … Read more
