?doing_wp_cron Appended to URL

  • For some time I have been experiencing some issues with weird things being appended to my URLs when visiting my site (https://www.homecarepulse.com).

    ?doing_wp_cron= and then a string of text is being appended to the end of every page on the site. Also, at the end of that a “#” is being appended to the very end of the URL on every page except for the blog page and individual posts.

    I have tried deactivating plugins, but nothing seems to help. Does anyone know what files could be causing this? I know the ?doing_wp_cron is related to scheduling posts or anything that uses scheduling like backupbuddy (which I don’t have installed).

    I tried disabling the cron, but it crashed my whole website and I had to reverse the change.

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  • Can you replicate the problem using the default Twenty Twelve theme with all other plugins deactivated?

    Thread Starter strongtyer

    (@strongtyer)

    Thanks for the response. A couple things. This is a company site and if I am going to do something major like deactivate all the plugins or change the theme and break features on the site, I want to be sure I do it at a time of the day when no one is visiting. I can’t just go on breaking the site while customers are visiting.

    Also, I need to be sure I wont lose any data from my plugins or theme when I deactivate everything and change the theme. From what I understand, WordPress stores all the information in the database so I shouldn’t lose anything, right? I have to be as sure as I can. Can you please confirm this?

    That being said. Can you help me see what you are getting at? Lets say that I deactivate everything and change to the 2012 theme and everything works? Then what? Start activating plugins one by one and if it is still fine then that means the theme is causing the problem? If it is the theme then is there a particular file that is likely the culprit? The theme I have now is pretty basic and doesn’t do anything too crazy.

    Thanks.

    so I shouldn’t lose anything, right?

    Correct. There is no magic bullet in these situations. This is just the start of basic troubleshooting and is a process of elimination deliberately designed to locate the root cause as quickly as possible by first removing the most obvious and common culprits via a series of (often) temporary steps.

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