Comments on: How to Time Things in WordPress – Cron Job Plugin

By: David Pankhurst

David Pankhurst — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:55:15 +0000

Thanks for the update – while not exactly a bug (the UCron entry is found under the ‘Posts’ links rather than the ‘Settings’ tab), it’s due to the way WP has changed from version to version. The next version of UCron will fix this – unless WP changes things again…

By: SICOnet

SICOnet — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:25:20 +0000

Hey David, First of all thx for your nice plugin. it's very helpful since not each webhoster offers the possibility of setting up cron jobs manually. but there is a small bug in your plugin according to the latest wordpress version: No Navigation in the backend menu is displayed. So simply remove the line 351:


add_submenu_page('edit.php','U-Cron','U-Cron',9,'u38_menu','utopia38_menu');

with this one:


add_submenu_page('tools.php','U-Cron','U-Cron',9,'u38_menu','utopia38_menu');

have a nice day!

By: David Pankhurst

David Pankhurst — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:53:28 +0000

Unfortunately, it depends on the code you’re using – check its documentation for something like a polling URL or URL to call to process the feeds. And confirm that the plugin can be run more frequently – if a plugin has a URL you can call but refuses to refresh every 3 hours, calling it more often won’t make a difference.

By: Cyran

Cyran — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:52:37 +0000

David,

Thanks for your answer and I totally understood that,
But the question is what URL should i call to have wordpress refreshing the cron ? (or refreshing the front page)
its not a password protected page neither a cookie value.
I just want to the feeds (coming from the plugin) refreshing every 3hours.

Thanks

By: David Pankhurst

David Pankhurst — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:48:39 +0000

Anything you have the plugin call needs to be in the form of a URL (with http:// in front). If you can’t do it (or for example it needs a password or cookie value you can’t pass as part of the URL) then it it won’t work.

By: Cyran

Cyran — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:58:34 +0000

It looks like this plugin can do pretty much what i want, but im not sure which link (or file) should i call?

im using a rss feed widget (image feed widget) and i want basically to updates the feeds every 3hours.

Apparently wordpress is doing it once a day, but i need some more often refresh

Would love some help on that

Thanks