WP Cron job every 1st and 15th of the month

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Trying to set up custom schedules for WP Cron, knowing that they use an interval is it even possible to set up a cron job for every first of the month? As well as every fifteenth. This is what I have so far:

private function cron_schedules( $schedules ) {

    $midnight = strtotime( "midnight", current_time( 'timestamp' ) );
    $first = strtotime( 'first day of this month', $midnight );
    $fifteenth = $first + (7 * 24 * 60 * 60) * 2;

    $schedules['1st'] = array(
        'interval'  => $first,
        'display'   => __('1st of every month'),
    );

    $schedules['15th'] = array(
        'interval'  => $fifteenth,
        'display'   => __('15th of every month'),
    );

    $schedules['weekly'] = array(
        'interval'  => ( 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 ),
        'display'   => __('Weekly'),
    );

    $schedules['biweekly'] = array(
        'interval'  => ( 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 ) * 2,
        'display'   => __('Biweekly'),
    );

    return $schedules;

}

2 Answers
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wp_cron operates on intervals and there is no interval that will hit exactly the first day and the 15th of every month.

You could run your wp-cron job every day and check the date, similar to this but with a simple callback like:

cron_callback_wpse_113675() {
  $date = date('d');
  if ('01' == $date || '15' == $date) {
    // run your function
  }
}

Or, use wp_schedule_single_event with a more complicated callback. Something like this:

function cron_callback_v2_wpse_113675() {
  $date = date('d');
  if (!wp_next_scheduled(cron_callback_v2_wpse_113675)) {
    $date = ($date < 15) ? '15' : '01';
  }
  if ('01' == $date || '15' == $date) {
    // run your function
    switch ($date) {
      case '01' :
        wp_schedule_single_event( strtotime('+14 days',strtotime('first day of')), 'cron_callback_v2_wpse_113675' );
      break;
      case '15' :
        wp_schedule_single_event( strtotime('first day of'), 'cron_callback_v2_wpse_113675' );
      break;
    }
  }
}

Barely Completely untested. Possibly buggy. Caveat emptor. No refunds.

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