alephsociety

Thanks @jnashhawkins for the suggestions. I’ll try them in combinations, but looking at the plugin descriptions, they may still not fix the problem.

The maelstrom of problems is thus: we have a somewhat unpredictable post writing schedule but a hard daily-at-the-same-time publication schedule (4am EST) when we have MailChimp crawl the RSS to grab content and deliver it to subscribers by email so they see it every morning. The process isn’t conducive to generating web traffic except for the MailChimp crawler, which I guess isn’t real traffic that triggers cron tasks. Plus, it’s 4am, anticipating that emails will hit inboxes in the morning in the European time zones. So we can’t ourselves just visit the site every darn day just to trigger the cron.

What I’m trying to figure out is what exactly do I need to do to the php in wp-cron to have scheduled posts be triggered at a different time of day – say, 3:55 AM – so that by the time the Mailchimp crawler comes in, a post will be fresh and waiting. It’s either that or change cron timing to every 5 minutes rather than once daily.

I don’t understand enough php to confidently insert into wp-cron itself, or to know whether I need to modify or create a new cron job in any sort of cron management plugin. Do you have any guidance on how to identify the cron commands in charge of scheduled posts, what to do about modifying the time, and where it lives? Or have you seen a plugin that has more robust control?

Thank you so much!

That’s so great! It worked! Now the question is, can I preserve the HTML tags? is there a way to do that in this plugin, or do I have to edit the RSS code?