Confusion with scheduled revisions

  • Resolved istcwebmaster

    (@istcwebmaster)


    1 year, 6 months ago

    I am hoping to use Revisions to schedule updates to page content.

    I’ve looked at how to configure the settings for scheduled revisions, however there are several options in the settings that I cannot find reference to in the documentation.

    The documentation I have found is here: https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/how-scheduling-works-revision/

    The plugin, however, has settings to turn off using wp-cron, turn off asynchronous publishing, and to set the site to use a custom trigger for wp-cron tasks.

    I can’t find information about what each of these mean, and so I’m stumped what to ask my hosting provider about our set-up in order to correctly configure the plugin for our site.

    Our host states that they use cron rather than wp-cron, but so far, through experimentation, I have only succeeded in getting all scheduled revisions to trigger at the same time, seemingly ignoring the scheduling. Perhaps this is something others have come across before, but searching the forum did not bring anything up.

    Can anyone offer further documentation or guidance about how to correctly configure Revisions on a server using cron rather than wp-cron?

    Thanks.

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  • Plugin Support Riza Maulana Ardiyanto

    (@rizaardiyanto)

    Hi @istcwebmaster

    Thanks for using PublishPress Revisions.

    In this case, I think its better to know more about what is WP Cron.

    WP Cron refers to the WordPress cron system, which is a time-based job scheduling mechanism used in WordPress to automate various tasks and processes within a WordPress website or blog. It’s important to note that despite the name, WP Cron is not a true cron system like the one found on Unix-like operating systems. Instead, it’s a pseudo-cron system built into WordPress itself.

    Instead of running at specific intervals like a traditional cron job, WP Cron relies on visitor traffic to trigger its scheduled events. Whenever a user visits a WordPress site, WordPress checks if any scheduled tasks are due to run. If a task is overdue, it is executed during that visit.

    That being said, if no visit on the site, the task will not run. Some very low visitor sites are recommended to setup real cron job instead.

    As you said that your hosting is using real cron rather than WP Cron, you can setup a cron which will called WP Cron. For example in this documentation section: https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/scheduling-cron-jobs/#h-alternatives-to-wp-cron

    You put that on the URL of the cron job and you can define the time as you wanted.

    Hope that explanation answers your queries.

    Thanks,

    Thread Starter istcwebmaster

    (@istcwebmaster)

    Thanks for your help.

    I am still looking for more information about the settings I mentioned. I need to find out what configuration I should have in settings in order to make use of this set-up. Specifically for the three setting mentioned previously:

    • wp-cron: on or off?
    • asynchronous publishing: on or off?
    • custom trigger: on or off?

    I’m not sure how these settings work and can find no info on them.

    Plugin Support Riza Maulana Ardiyanto

    (@rizaardiyanto)

    WP Cron on or off? It depends whether you are using WP Cron or not. If yes, then turn it on. And if you turn it off, you could setup real cron instead.

    While the other 2 (async publishing & custom trigger), can you share screenshot which setting you are referring to?

    Thread Starter istcwebmaster

    (@istcwebmaster)

    These are the settings I am trying to make sure are set up correctly. Specifically, the last three that seem to relate to having a set-up that doesn’t use WP-Cron.

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    As our host uses Cron and not WP-Cron, how should these be set up?

    The current settings seems to publish all changes on the next cron run, rather than as scheduled in the post, but I can’t find any help on how to configure this to run or how to troubleshoot these issues.

    Thanks.

    Plugin Support Riza Maulana Ardiyanto

    (@rizaardiyanto)

    @istcwebmaster What PublishPress Revisions version you are using?

    Plugin Support Riza Maulana Ardiyanto

    (@rizaardiyanto)

    We haven’t heard back from you in a while, so I’m going to mark this as resolved. If you have any further questions, please reply again here, or you can start a new thread.

    Thanks,

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