Posts not being archived

Dale,

I’ve tested the plugin on my own sites and it working fine.

The cause is almost certainly some other plugin interfering with wp-cron. Are you familiar with what I’m talking about?

If so I suggest installing a cron manager plugin like wp-crontrol and checking that cron jobs are being processed, and in particular the lh_archived_post_status_run job is present and running. Let me know how you go.

Thanks. I had wp-cron disabled and real cron turned on through my host (SiteGround). I have reenabled WP Cron and it seems to be back to working (some of the archive dates disappeared when I switched back to WP Cron, but when I reset them, they went into effect and archived the posts).

Is there a way for this plugin to work with WP Cron disabled and a real cron enabled in its place?

Dale,

Re wp-cron it is a standard (not ideal though) and used by many plugins so switching it off would, I expect, impact more than just my plugin (depends on what you have installed).

Can you please clarify what you mean when you say you have enabled real cron? Have you scheduled some true cron jobs? What are they doing?

Pete

• This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by shawfactor.

Hi,

I used the process described on this help page one the SiteGround website: https://www.siteground.com/tutorials/wordpress/real-cron-job/

It adds define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true); to the wp-config.php file, then adds a different cron job from the host.

That should in theory work wp-cron.php should just run the same wp-cron queue. I get get system cron to wget that file on my own sites. I generally don’t:

define(‘DISABLE_WP_CRON’, true);

But is should still work as the queue should still exist and be triggered by wp-cron.php.

I suspect this is going to be a hard one to diagnose. I’d recommend removing

define(‘DISABLE_WP_CRON’, true);

But keep your system cron job hitting the URL.

If you can wget the wp-cron.php url so could any potential dos attack so you aren’t protecting yourself and

by disabling wp-cron, as you are not disabling wp-cron.php,just stopping it running on shutdown when someone visits your site

(you can and there are benefits to doing both)

I am resolving this for good order.

However I will still monitor the thread.

Pete