[Plugin: WPeMatico] Cannot get cron to automatically create posts

Hey There,

I am also running into this issue and think I may have uncovered the problem.

In the functions.php file is the function

function wpematico_cron() {
		$args = array( 'post_type' => 'wpematico', 'orderby' => 'ID', 'order' => 'ASC' );
		$campaigns = get_posts( $args );
		foreach( $campaigns as $post ) {
			$campaign = WPeMatico :: get_campaign( $post->ID );
			$activated = $campaign['activated'];
			$cronnextrun = $campaign['cronnextrun'];
			if ( !$activated )
				continue;
			if ( $cronnextrun <= current_time('timestamp') ) {
				WPeMatico :: wpematico_dojob( $post->ID );
			}
		}
	}

If you are at all familiar with the function with get_posts for wordpress you would instantly notice what might cause an issue. the parameter of the function numberposts is not set. By default wordpress get_posts will only get 5 posts. So in this case 5 campaigns will run. If you are fortunate to only have 5 campaigns that need to run you would be fine. If you have more though, like your 30, it will not get to all of them. The case I am working on has 570 campaigns in it.

The Fix:
add the argument 'numberposts' => -1 to that function. However be careful, editing a plugin file can have undesired results, and if you upgrade the plugin it will be overwritten.

function wpematico_cron() {
		$args = array( 'post_type' => 'wpematico', 'orderby' => 'ID', 'order' => 'ASC' , 'numberposts' => -1 );
		$campaigns = get_posts( $args );
		foreach( $campaigns as $post ) {
			$campaign = WPeMatico :: get_campaign( $post->ID );
			$activated = $campaign['activated'];
			$cronnextrun = $campaign['cronnextrun'];
			if ( !$activated )
				continue;
			if ( $cronnextrun <= current_time('timestamp') ) {
				WPeMatico :: wpematico_dojob( $post->ID );
			}
		}
	}

A safer route maybe to create a simliar function and access the WPeMatico class to use it’s functions, but for a quick fix that should do it.