Autoposting and Reposting and Cron problem

I set up SNAP to autopost new posts after I publish one, and that worked.

I also set up SNAP to repost old posts. To do this, I followed your tutorial and disabled the internal WP-Cron function and set up a real cron job – https://www.nextscripts.com/tutorials/wp-cron-scheduling-tasks-in-wordpress/

I set up cron to run once every 24 hours. Every time it runs it reposts 1 old post. From what I understand, I can’t set up the reposting delay from SNAP, I can only choose in cron how often reposts happen (I have it once every 24 hours). I initially tested the cron at every 1 minute, and it would share 1 post every minute, every time it runs.

I have no option to edit the reposter “When to post (schedule)” section, as there I still have the notification: Auto Reposting service is Disabled. Your WP Cron is not working correctly. Please see the test results and recommendations

However, now when I publish new posts they don’t get shared because SNAP basically waits for the cron job to run. And then on the 24 hour mark when the cron runs, it then shares my new post + reposts 1 old post. So it ends up sharing 2 posts at the same time. And I’m sure if I published for example 5 posts in a day, then when cron runs it would at the same time autoshare all 5 posts + 1 old post repost.

You can see how this is a bit of a problem…

Anything I can do to perhaps have the reposter override the cron job and allow me to insert how often I want my post reposted? So to not allow the cron job to post at will every time it runs. That way I can set reposting frequencies in the reposter, but still have cron run every 30 minutes or something in order to quickly pick up on new posts.

I hope you can help. Thanks ??

• This topic was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by Nino25.