http://wordpress.org/support/ WordPress › Support Topic: Using WP-Cron in a theme, can it be done? I can't make it work en Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:38:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/support/topic/262707#post-1047555 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:28:26 +0000 jamiefehr 1047555@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>As far as I can tell this should be all the code I need, but I can't make it work</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php // I don&#39;t want to be waiting around for things to change function more_cron_reccurences() { return array(&#39;minutely&#39; =&gt; array(&#39;interval&#39; =&gt; 60, &#39;display&#39; =&gt; &#39;Once Minutely&#39;)); } add_filter(&#39;cron_schedules&#39;, &#39;more_cron_reccurences&#39;); //the actual cron magic if (!wp_next_scheduled(&#39;some_hook&#39;)) { wp_schedule_event( time(), &#39;minutely&#39;, &#39;some_hook&#39; ); } // wp_clear_scheduled_hook(&#39;some_hook&#39;); add_action(&#39;some_hook&#39;, &#39;some_action&#39;); function some_action(){ $current = get_option(&#39;how_long&#39;); if (isset($current)) { $new = $current + 1; update_option(&#39;how_long&#39;, $new); } else { add_option(&#39;how_long&#39;, 0); } } ?&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;notice&quot;&gt; Should change in &lt;?php echo wp_next_scheduled(&#39;some_hook&#39;)-time() ?&gt; seconds.&lt;br /&gt; It&#39;s been &lt;?php echo get_option(&#39;how_long&#39;) ?&gt; times now. &lt;br /&gt; Next scheduled for: &lt;?php echo date( get_option(&#39;time_format&#39;), wp_next_scheduled(&#39;some_hook&#39;)) ?&gt; &lt;/div&gt;</code></pre> <p>The function updates the option correctly when fired on its own, and the timer does seem to count down, but the timer never actually fires the function.</p> <p>All I can think is that it's not actually possible for a cron to call a function in a theme... this would really aggravate me. Anyone have some good insight? I found the <a href="http://blog.slaven.net.au/archives/2007/02/01/timing-is-everything-scheduling-in-wordpress/">highly recommend post </a>by Slaven. But I can't find anything on how a cron might be different when working in a template. </p>