Managed Wordpess and Scheduling Issues

What does GoDaddy say? You are paying them to manage your site.

Basically they say it is not their problem and I should search for help elsewhere Lol.

“Managed WordPress does not have Cron Tab access. Managed WordPress uses the wp-cron.php file to simulate actual cron jobs. You can search WordPress forums for more info on how to use this function. ”

I am running into the same issue. @christopher0424, please let me know if you found a solution. Have you tried an Kron scheduling plugins?

You both need to find a host that understands what “Managed WordPress” means. Hello! Managed mean you are paying them to take care of these problems. All you should have to worry about is content.

A scheduled post should post when scheduled. Period.

GD’s managed wordpress uses a lot of caching in front of your site so it appears faster. That means that many, if not most accesses to your site do not actually hit any PHP, so wp’s internal cron is never activated.

This link, from hostgator, may help. https://support.hostgator.com/articles/specialized-help/technical/wordpress/how-to-replace-wordpress-cron-with-a-real-cron-job

You should ask GoDaddy how you set up a “real” cron schedule using their hosting.

Thanks for your responses @sterndata, @@tjm5398, @kmessinger.
We are not trying to schedule a post, but we need to schedule some cron jobs for maintaining the member’s database of our organization.

Daily crons are run to update member’s subscription status in the website database, based on their actions on various newsletters, update their information in the mailing list of the Email service provider, and send membership renewal notices based on their registration date.

As mentioned by @christopher0424, Godaddy says its not their problem.
They have an option for scheduling real crons from cpanel of their shared hosting platform, but not for Managed WordPress hosting.

We have tried using some cron Plugins – but they require a user action to trigger the crons. Would appreciate any information on suitable plugins or alternate options.

Thanks

They have an option for scheduling real crons from cpanel of their shared hosting platform, but not for Managed WordPress hosting.

That sounds like the root of the issue. If you really need real cron jobs, change hosting.

Yes Mark – that is the problem. We originally had shared hosting, but had to switch to Managed since the ‘unlimited’ resources that come with the deluxe hosting plan are not really ‘unlimited’ and which was causing the site to crash ??

Well, a search of these forums will show that GoDaddy is a problematic host. See Recommended WordPress Web Hosting for hosts that the WordPress team has recommended. If you really want managed hosting, a Google search will show you the options.

This is a huge GoDaddy problem. It looks like it started happening about the time they acquired MangeWP and made a lot of dashboard changed. We’ve called every week for four weeks and it looks like they are starting to look into it. Fingers crossed they figure it out.

Has anybody been able to schedule a blog with GoDaddy successfully where it also gets out to subscribers and to social media. I haven’t been able to get a scheduled blog to work since September 14th. I do use Jetpack and unfortunately even with the latest release of 4.2.2, I’m still having the same problems. I use Scheduled Post Trigger to get the blog to post at least to my site, but the publicize part is still broken. Just wondering if anyone out there has had any better success. GoDaddy says they know of the issues but I’m not sure if they ever will be able to fix this on their Shared Hosting. I’m just a little guy who writes a little blog, so I don’t really want to switch to Cpanel. Frankly, I don’t really understand much about WordPress so the Managed Shared WordPress has benefitted me, except on this issue.