ntflavio06

Thanks Kuba,

Actually it’s not my approach. This is how this whole cron job is supposed to work.

1. I have Woocommerce plugin installed so an order generated through wordpress uses woocommerce.
2. When an order is placed, the order is saved in a holding state before it can be processed using woocommerce.
3. Once an administrator, such as myself, changes the order status from holding to processing, a Zapier feed which is created in my wordpress site, listens to the order status change.
4. Once the order status is changed to processing, the Zapier feed requires a cron plugin to feed the change, i.e. order changed from holding to processing through a Zapier web hook which passes the data to its appropriate connection which could be Freshbooks, Outlook Exchange, etc.
5. These feeds that run through a cron engine simply feed the data using the web hook stated above and the eventual connection using the appropriate Zapier feed, gets the data and creates an appropriate action, i.e. create a calendar event.

Now I know your plugin works because it works on my web site. But my site is not hosted third party, it is my own web server and there are no block whatsoever, and the cron jobs run whenever Zapier asks for a request in change.

Lastly, these cron jobs are created solely for a single run, not to be run all the time. So once the event has run its course, it is complete and will never run again. But with my client’s ISP, somehow they don’t allow for these cron jobs to run as they have to be configured through their cPanel management console. And this is where the problem starts.

So like I said before any little bit of help would be a great help as I know all the plumbing of this web site. I just needs to connect a few pipes and I am good to go.

Thanks

Hi Kuba,

And thanks for the quick response.

This error doesn’t happen on a screen. I get an error in an email that tells me that a cron job that was initiated through wordpress, i.e. when an order is created which is supposed to create a zapier action gives me errors.

This is what i get in an email:

/bin/sh: zapier_triggered_woocommerce_order_status_on-hold_to_processing: command not found

I have also emailed the hosting provider, but they said that what they had mentioned in bold.

I don’t know if I should contact Zapier on this matter as it is this plugin creating this cron task that I need to run which won’t run.