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1. giant slayer
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   I would like to schedule a post to be posted at 5:00pm CST each Friday.

   From looking at the WP-Cron functions, I see only options for hourly, daily, and twicedaily.

   I also found a filter that would allow a custom tim interval.
   

   // add custom time to cron
   function filter_cron_schedules( $param ) {
       return array( 'once_half_hour' => array(
                                   'interval' => 1800, // seconds
                                   'display'  => __( 'Once Half an Hour' )
                               ) );
   }
   add_filter( 'cron_schedules', array( &$this, 'filter_cron_schedules' ) );

   I could find out how many seconds are in a week and place that value in the interval, but how would I tell it to start at the exact time I desire?

   Does anyone have any ideas on how to do a weekly event?

   Thanks,
   christopher

2. giant slayer
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   I could not find anything within wordpress on this, but I have godaddy as my host and it has a cron scheduler.

   I created a cron event, but when the page is executed, php returns the following error.
   Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_insert_post() in /home/content/g/i/a/giantslayer/html/wp-content/themes/slayer/free-weekly-test.php on line 15

   This is the code I am trying execute.
   

   <?php
   $post_text='Testing Scheduler option for free weekly background.';
   $my_post = array(
       'comment_status' => 'open',
       'post_author' => 1,
       'post_category' => array(226) ,
       'post_content' => $post_text,
       'post_name' => 'Test',
       'post_status' => 'draft',
       'post_title' => 'Test',
       'post_type' => 'post',
       'tags_input' => 'free, weekly, photoshop, art, fine art'
   );
   $new_post_id=wp_insert_post( $my_post );
   ?>

   Is there something I need to do to see wordpress functions outside of wordpress?

3. giant slayer
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   I have tried two things. I have tried to add the following code to my php to attempt to initialize wordpress.
   

   define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
   /** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
   require('./wp-blog-header.php');
   if ( !isset($wp_did_header) ) {
       $wp_did_header = true;
       require_once( dirname(__FILE__) . '/wp-load.php' );
       wp();
       require_once( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/template-loader.php' );
       }

   I was unable to load the required files.

   I then tried to move the file to the root directory, but when I try to load it, WordPress is already active and the file pulls a 404 not found error.

   Anyone have any ideas how I can get around either of these?
   Thanks, --christopher

4. giant slayer
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   =) Sometimes I feel like I am talking to myself.

   Here is the error I am getting when trying to include wp-blog-header.php in my file.
   Warning: require() [function.require]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/content/g/i/a/giantslayer/html/wp-content/themes/slayer/wp-free-weekly-test.php on line 5

   anyone have any idea what this error means?

5. giant slayer
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Ok, I found the error was caused by using an absolute path. I changed the require statement to be as follows.
   require($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/wp-blog-header.php');

   I also found that this pulled a page that resulted in a wordpress generated page not found error. However, I did notice my desired script does execute and a new post is created. So I can schedule the cron event on my server at a weekly interval and use the line above to activate wordpress from the file I chose in my cron schedule.

   I then follow the above line with any code I desire for whatever weekly action I desire.

6. Seacoast Web Design
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   How about simply making the post date 5PM on the following Friday. (OK, make it 4:59 for a slow host)

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