WP-Cron 1.4 is now available for download!
This version updates the wp-cron-mail.php helper plugin for blogging by email. This version will now properly handle apostrophes and quote marks in the subject of posts, as well as in the body of the post.
New in this version is a wp-cron-update-links.php helper plugin, which will refresh the "last updated" value of links defined in your Links Manager. See http://mathibus.com/archive/2005/10/wp-blogroll for a tutorial on using the new wp-cron-update-links.php helper plugin. Thanks Mathias!
Hi - thanks for the great plugins :)
Any plans to have this one execute a weekly plugin hook?
valerie: I've yet to see a need for a weekly action, which is the biggest reason I haven't made one. And WP-Cron is not entirely accurate with respect to execution, so something scheduled for weekly action might end up firing sooner or later, which may have undesirable consequences.
Is there something specific you had in mind for a weekly action?
I was thinking of a weekly for the database backup. I typically do database backups on Mondays but with the increasing number of sites I have to manage (and maintain for people who don't know what they're doing) it would just be nice to have that weekly backup emailed to me. Daily is just... a lot, you know.
My opinion anyway... :)
valerie: my theory is that if you get even one new comment, you should have a recent backup. It's easy enough to do, and you can fit many daily blog backups on CDR.
Very true, thanks :)
In wp-cron.php (version 1.4) the version show is 1.3 but plugin is 1.4 :)
Boja: thanks for the heads-up. I'll correct that.
My script just sent me 22 copies of the same file when used together with wp-backup. Could this have anything to do with the daylight saving?
Yeah, I got a deluge of backups this morning, too. It's almost certainly due to the time change.
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I've modded the reminder plugin to call a php script that I wrote. If anyone wants to see how to do that (or at least, how *I* did it), check out:
http://www.jonwatson.ca/blog/?p=702
Great plugin Skippy - thanks!
I've downloaded this and have managed to receive emails from WP-Cron reminder. However, I'm having no luck whatsoever with WP-Cron-Mail. I really don't know where to start looking for whatever I have done wrong and would appreciate your help. Thanks in advance.
Luke: Unfortunately, I don't do blog-by-email (and never have) so I don't really have any way to test wp-cron-mail.php. If it doesn't work for you, you might want to look at Postie or this Gmail plugin.
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I've installed 1.4 (it also displays as 1.3 for me) and interested in using the future pings feature. I'm using WP 1.5.2 - does wp-cron / future pings work on this version? I've activated wp-cron, wp-cron reminder & wp-cron future pings and am getting nothing - no pings & no test emails. Are there any known plugins that don't play nice with wp? Also - as a workaround, can you advise what I wp file / command I could place in my cron to start up a ping?
Thank you for any advice you can provide.
future pings doesn't work quite as well as I'd like. My limited testing of the plugin was moderately successful, but at least one person has reported consistent failures from it. The problem is the way WordPress 1.5x handles pings, which is neither flexible nor entirely appropriate to the workflow.
Much of the pinging has been revised in WordPress 1.6, which should make future pings much easier. It's also quite possible that it will be a default feature -- discussion in the recent Bug Hunt suggested that pings be sent the first time the post is viewed, which would pretty much eliminate the need for this plugin.
thanks, skippy.
thankfully, wordpress database backup 1.7 + wp-cron 1.4 works ok ;) Interesting enough, the backup 2 email works fine, but wp-cron reminder does not..
Any guesstimates on when 1.6 will be out? And in the interim, any ideas on what cron statement I could put in my host panel to ping all the service URI's? Sure, i could ping each service individually with curl - but is there a specific worpress file i should curl to get them all in one shot?
And thanks for the response!
I'm making wild speculation when I say that WordPress 1.6 might be out before Christmas. I really have no way to know, and the official release date remains "When it's done".
WP-cron YADD
Voici ma petite contribution au monde merveilleux de Wordpress :
WP-cron YADD est une intégration de YADDdans l’architecture WP-cron. De cette manière, plus de problème avec l’écriture de scripts shells et l’utilisation de cron. ...
Skippy, I have been playing with the future ping setting for a few hours trying to see exactly what was going on. I was following a discussion on another blog where someone was saying their site pinged pingomation as soon as they published, well mine did too but I noticed something. Any blog links that I post in the body get pinged immediately. However, the script works fine as far as trackbacks and pings to sites in my ping list going out after the postdated time has occurred. Could this be all that is giving people problems or does the script fail at other times as well?
Lazy Blogger: it's quite possible that that's the major stumbling block. My Future Pings plugin involves several ugly hacks: it first tries to disable the option to send pings to update services so that the default pings will be supressed; it then tries to tell WordPress that all the pings and trackbacks have already been done.
I'm hopeful that the upcoming WordPress 2.0 will provide a more flexible framework.
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Skippy: ( Wow, my Gravatar is in place 8-)
When I compare with yours, I realize that Gravatars should be like chameleons and automatically adapt their color scheme to the overall L&F of the blogs they are visiting.
( I'm sure it will be done - just take a note of where you heard it first )
Now, to the question of wp-cron & al.
If I knew PHP, I wouldn't bother you with the elementary,
but ...
Activating wp-cron, wp-cron-reminder and wp-cron-mail, I get four unevenly spread mail messages in an hour, but my email posts are never fetched. wp-mail works though so the email post fetching mechanism would be set up correctly.
Now, in your wp-cron-readme it says that the actions of wp-cron depends on some regularity of visits to the blog.
Does this mean that any visit will launch a PHP session lasting for a preset time, and that wp-cron must react in that time span for it to work.
I think of wp-cron as a "daemon process" checking the current time against a scheduled time - wrong I guess?
In the readme it also says "The plugin will automatically create in your database the three options it requires."
This sounds like three fields in the MySQL database. If so, what names do they have? ( I don't remember what tables and fields WP itself created ).
If I install a new version of the wp-cron package, do I have to reset anything, i.e. in the database.
Thanks for working so hard for lazy bloggers!
WP-Cron does two things:
1) it creates three new entries in your wp_options table. These are named
wp_cron_15_lastrun,wp_cron_hourly_lastrun, andwp_cron_daily_lastrun.2) Every time a visitor comes to your site, WP-Cron compares the current time with each of the WP-Cron values. If the current time is greater than the interval for the current option (15 minutes, and hour, or a day), then WP-Cron will trigger the functions registered against the appropriate hook.
As for wp-cron-mail.php, I can't help too much. I don't use POP3 email, so I've never actually tested it. ;) If it works, great; if not, please accept my apologies.
Thanks - your explanations satisfies all I wanted to know!
No need to apologize of course - after all its free.
One may wonder if you have a built in remote control in the wp-cron :). I installed the script yesterday and "visited" my blog a lot of times - no bublishing.
Today, as soon as I had finished my last post here, the cron published my long pending post at my blog.
It's working!
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Hi, I am using wp-cron.php just to backup my db each day.
Do I need to update from 1.3 to 1.4? What's new?
Do I just need to change the php file into my plugin directory?
Thanks for your work,
Emanuele
Emanuele: no, the actual wp-cron plugin is not updated in this version. 1.3 should continue to work just fine for your backup purposes. If you do upgrade, simply replace all the files on your server with the ones contained in the download.
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i'm using both wp database backup and this plugin. the backups that i manually download and the generated backup by this plugin does not have the same file size. is it really like that?
louie: it's possible that the backups could be different sizes. How different are they? Just a couple bytes? Are the contents of the backups sufficiently similar?
there is a difference of about 20kb. i tried those backups i manually downloaded and they work perfectly fine. as for the backups that this plugin has generated, i don't have a clue if they're complete.
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i tiried the backup file that this plugin made.. it's incomplete. and i just want to ask, am i downloading the latest version of this plugin? because what i see in the pluginlist is 1.3...
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hey skippy,
first of all, thanx for your great work concerning the plugins you provide us with!
question: what about wp-cron and wp2.0 - does the future-post-thing work on 2.0 or is version 1.5.11 still required to have the plugin work properly?! scheduled backup works fine, thats why i ask...
bye, roland.
Hi Skippy,
I'm trying to use this plugin with suscribe2 in order to send daily digests. As for last day daily digest didnt work I activated wp-cron-reminder, but it sends me sixty reminder mail each 6 seconds! and fifty goes fine.
any idea?
a bug?
mine problem?
Thks
smdani: WP-Cron is not entirely reliable. I'm not sure what you mean by "and fifty goes fine."
You could try disabling the default WordPress cache (in /wp-settings.php). That may or may not help.
I'll try it!
Thks
This is so odd. I've never had problems with this plugin but today got an email from the person I trackbacked to saying he keeps getting trackback notifications every 5 minutes eek! Could this be an incompatibality with WP 2.0? Or something else?
Hi Skippy,
thanks so much for all your great plugins, I love them.
However I'm a bit ashamed to admit that I haven't figured out exactly how to create a cron action of weekly backups with it. I read the readme file etc and I'm usually quick with these things but do you think you can throw me a few hints about it?
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Hi!
I'm a fairly new user of WordPress, and wp-cron was one of the first plugins i tried... and still using it! good job..
One thing.. I modified the wp-cron-mail plugin in a few ways you might find interesting:
1) I added an options page to handle all the possible options. (enable mail, always notify, publish/draft, and all the new options I added)
2) I added a way to specify categories other than the default: By making the first non-empty line of an email have the form:
{* category name 1, category name 2, category ID 3 *}
etc etc, the post is assigned to the categories with the names or ids specified. If a category does not exist with the specified name, it is created.
3) Made it easy to replace the wp-mail.php file with a single call to wp_cron_mail (i.e. 2 lines of code - including the config file and calling the function), where the plugin now outputs the log to the browser instead of mailing it (or both, configurable via options) - this was to take advantage of the previous and the next improvements.
4) Ensures that all posts come from a valid email address. This is checked as follows:
Email address is registered, or if not then email address is specified in allowed email addresses option, or if not then allowed email addresses option is set to allow all emails, or if not then message is deleted and sender is sent an email telling them so.
5) small change to the existing code for updating the post2cat table... removed the foreach loop, and added a single call to wp_set_post_cats (cleaner)... I'm using WP 2.0.1, and I don't know if this is new or not...
Let me know if you're interested in the modified code!
Hi,
I use WP-cron for blogging by email. I have one issue: The author of my emailed posts is not the account (=WP Admin) I want (different account for posting).
Do you have an idea how to change this?
A really nice feature would be: Checking the senders email adress to set the author of the posting and to valiate if the sender is allowed to post. (OK, let me dream, I know this is a WP job, not yours)....
Ups, wp-mail does it already. Sorry for my postings! Perhaps you can delete it?
I just posted a download link to my modified file from above...
As a side note, I just noticed a strange bug... all the spaces from my email where replaced by the text string "=20"... does anyone know why this happened?
Hi there. Great plugin! I'm currently using it for database backups, and it's doing a bang-up job.
I was wondering if there's any news about the compatibility of the future pings plugin with WP2. Does it still work / work better? Also, is it compatible with the No Ping Wait plugin that speeds up posting?
Thanks very much for this great PlugIn!!!!
But I don't wanna backup (and emailed to me) my db daily. Is there a way of changing that?!
Skippy -
I just installed the plugin, and the the "reminder" plugin. The 15-minute one seems to be working right, but I've been getting the "60 minute" reminder every minute. :-?
[...] WP-Cron של סקיפי עובד בתאום עם WP-DB-Backup ומאפשר לכם לבצע אוטומציה בתהליך הגיבוי של וורדפרס; מס' פעמים כבר קרה שמסיבה כזו או אחרת נשמרו לי התכנים של הבלוג, אבל לא התגובות - וזה מה שהיה חשוב לי. לכן החלטתי שאגבה את כל מסדי הנתונים של הבלוגים שלי באופן קבוע והפלאגין הזה מהווה את הפתרון המושלם. הוא מאפשר לקבוע תדירות לגיבוי אוטומטי (לאו דווקא יומי), ולקבוע מה לעשות עם קבצי הגיבוי - לשמור על השרת, או אולי לשלוח אותם לכתובת אימייל. מומלץ בחום. [...]
Blogging by email from America...
I’m not sure if this should really go in the travel category, but I don’t have a “cheap old technology” category and I don’t want to create one :) This is largely travel related though, even if I won’t be mentioning...
hi, i just realied that i posted my earlier post (between *** below) in the wrong version. Actualyl, I get this weird behaviour with all versions except the original. What do you think?
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Hi,
I installed the script (latest version of WP, hostgator is my host) and the sixty minute reminder was sent 17 times to my email account within 7 minutes!
Not sure why I'm getting the multiple emails when I'm expecting only one.
Any ideas?
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Hi,
I was wondering what's involved in using WP-cron to activate other plugins? Specifically I'd like to use it with Feed WordPress.
Would it be wishful thinking to hope that it's relatively straightforward?!
My hosting package will only allow me to run a cron job once a day, but I need to do it more often than this. Every 15 minutes would be great!
For various reasons I cannot use the other methods suggested in the FWP documentation (pinging, POST, curl...)
If using WP-cron is unrealistic, can anyone suggest any alternatives?
Thanks
I just got an error :(
It happened after I deleted a post. The post was a simple one liner, with no links.
Any ideas?
Are you going to update cron-future-pings and the other plugins for the newest version of wordpress?
uno: No, I'm not planning on updating this -- or any of my other plugins.
The next major revision of WordPress should include a new scheduling facility, and solve the "future pings" problem in a different way; so WP-Cron and its helper plugins will no longer be necessary.
Hey Skippy.
Thanks for that plugin. i found a little problem, posting letters like ä, ö and ü witch are usefull in the german language ;-)
When i tried posting these letters the post itself looks like this:
http://www.diewespe.de/2006/10/02/sonderzeichen-2/
I use Wordpress 2.02 and your latest pluginversion.
Any suggestions?
Thx a lot...
Olaf
[...] Download the plugin from here. [...]
Thank you for your great work on these essential plugins.
I have three blogs on one server using one db with three separate sets of WP tables. I use wp-cron to back up my db on a daily basis and it works like a charm for one blog, but the other two I have to do manually. The plugins for the two indicate the job has been executed, but I do not receive an email. Since I know the email works, I presume there is a conflict between the three jobs trying to execute at once. Each blog is set internally to a different time, so I presume the job runs off the server clock. I am not completely fluid in PHP syntax, but how would I amend the script in each of the three plugin instances so they do not all try to run at the same time? Would something like now()+60 amend the time by an hour?
Hey Skippy,
I have a question regarding your WP-CRON-FUTURE-PINGS plugin. Does it only work for pingbacks and not the pinging of sites like tecnorati, and ping-o-matic? I have the plugin installed, and even when I create future dated posts, technorati is still getting pinged. I was told the plugin would supress pinging at the time of posting, and then do the ping after the post became viewable on my blog. I'm using WordPress 2.04. Am I understanding that correctly?
Thanks for the plugin.
Joe Banner: there ought not be a problem with three backup jobs trying to execute at once.
Chris: the future-pings plugin is supposed to prevent WordPress from sending a ping to ping-o-matic, as well as sending any pingbacks or trackbacks. It's not an entirely functional plugin, since it works by "tricking" WordPress into thinking it's already sent these. I haven't evaluated whether this plugin works with later versions of WordPress -- it wouldn't surprise me if recent WordPress changes prevent this plugin from functioning properly.
[...] I’ve been trying to post via email. But, I can’t seem to get this Wordpress plug-in to work properly. I’m trying WP-Cron 1.4 you can find it here. And so far no luck. I’ve installed it correctly, and every setting seems correct. 6 hours later and I’m done messing with it. Can you say delete? [...]
How would I amend the script in each of the three plugin instances so they do not all try to run at the same time?
joe: check lines 25, 39, and 41-43 for the daily execution of wp-cron. The easiest option is probably to change line 25 to look something like this:
$daily = mktime(1, 0, 1, $this_month, $this_day, $this_year);The first paramter to the
mktime()function is the hour, so just increment that digit to whatever you feel like.Backups work fine manually, but I'm not getting any scheduled backups and wp-cron-reminder isn't working, either. Any ideas of what I should look for?
Thanks for the great plugins!
Hi! Thanks for your great work. I have installed wp-cron for scheduled database backups, together with wp-cron moderation and wp-cron reminder. I am running WP Version 2.0.5. The first day everything worked fine but then I didn´t receive any mails for many days. Today I received a bulk of 60 minute reminders, maybe about 20 per hour. I´ve disabled the reminder plugin now. Do you have any ideas about the reasons and how to solve this?
Michael: sorry, no, I don't know the specific cause of that problem. WP-Cron has, from the very beginning, only been somewhat effective. It worked well enough on my own server, but I've read a lot of complaints similar to your's.
The next version of WordPress is supposed to have a new scheduling system. It is an independent development, and does not use anything from WP-Cron. I have not tested it, and have no idea how well it will work.
Thanks your immediate answer and your great efforts. This morning I received about 50 Mails from yesterday, that were reminders, moderation requests and scheduled backup ...very funny!
Hello Skippy,
Thanks for your work! I have a question though. Do you know how I can set WP-Cron to erase the ads footnotes in my emails (like from Yahoo! or MSN Live), so that my posts do not look like emails?
Hi Skippy,
Awesome plugn, but I am having a bit of trouble with it. I've activated WP-Cron and Wordpress Database Backup v1.8 and I'm using wordpress 2.0.5. Anyway I want it to send me a daily backup to my gmail account... but it currently sets a schedule but doesnt do anything. I've run cron reminder to see if its alive and it is but i just dont get backups sent to me... and there are no visible errors. Any suggestions?
And again cheers for the plugins... once its up and running its gonna be ace :)
- nano
nano: I'm no longer providing support for my plugins. Try asking on the WordPress support forums.
In the interim, try executing a manual backup, taking care to select the "download" option: does that work? If so, repeat the manual backup but select "email" delivery. Does that work? Generally, if automated backup isn't working, manual backup won't work either.
Thanks skippy :)
Hi,
I wanted to know if any of you knows of compatibility issues of 'future pings' with the 'smart update pinger' plugin. This plugin takes over the plugin functionality of wordpress, avoiding redundant pinging, and is very useful, but it is bogus exactly in the ability to ping future posts.
I am worried though that 'future pings' may break 'smart update pinger' when it blanks out the list of pinging sites every time a post is published (and not only when the timestamp is in the future, which would be perfect)
Thanks for any information you may have!
I extracted the files within the WP plugin directory. But when I went to activate it I don't see the your plugins.
I am on WP 2.0.6.
can you help?
Thanks!
Dave
I agree that weekly, or even monthly hooks. I have a few sites that use Wordpress essentially as a CMS, and are not updated often enough to justify daily backups.
Woops, I meant that weekly and monthly hooks would be a good idea
Does anyone know if this has been implemented? If not, has anyone tried wp-cron with WP 2.1?
Thanks :)
I have tried it with 2.1 and can't get it to work, see my above issue.
This is a tricky one. Noone on the support forums seems to have got any ideas either.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/105035
I really didn't want to get my hands dirty, but it looks like I might have to lol
I had WP-Cron 1.1 for emailing daily backups, but only once in many months did I get a backup emailed to me. I am hoping that WP-Cron 1.4 will solve the problem (although on my plug-in page, it's listed as "1.3").
I also activated WP-Reminder just to get a little re-assurance that everything is working. When I came back a short while later, I had around 40 or 50 Sixty-minute reminders in my email inbox, all sent in a 20 minute span from 1:51 p.m. to 2:10 p.m., including 8 that were time-stamped 2:08 p.m.
I hope my backups work!