Latest Update crashed my site – PHP error

  • mattcurney

    (@mattcurney)


    1 year, 9 months ago

    The update Crontrol just rolled out this morning 7/10/22 crashed my site. No doubt thousands of others also woke up to the screen “There has been a critical error on this website.”

    I logged into my AWS lightsail console, deleted the plugin folder, and boom, my site was back.

    Not sure why the developers would roll out such a precarious update, but leaving this review so others don’t have to experience what I did today.

    In a way, this is the kick in the pants I needed to move to Action Scheduler. So cheers.

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  • Plugin Author John Blackbourn

    (@johnbillion)

    WordPress Core Developer

    1 year, 9 months ago

    Thanks for the report.

    I’ve released version 1.14 which reverts the changes made in 1.13. The issue is not with the plugin itself but with its deployment process to wordpress.org which misses the files in the vendor directory. I’m investigating the root cause and hopefully I’ll be able to re-release the new update again soon.

    Thread Starter mattcurney

    (@mattcurney)

    1 year, 9 months ago

    Thank you for reverting the changes. This takes some pressure off, while I learn Action Scheduler.

    Plugin Author John Blackbourn

    (@johnbillion)

    WordPress Core Developer

    1 year, 9 months ago

    I think you’ll find that Action Scheduler serves a different purpose. That plugin (which I’ve used myself a few times) provides an API for running asynchronous events in a highly scalable manner. WP Crontrol doesn’t change the way events are scheduled or run, it provides a way for you to manage those events in the admin area.

    The two plugins should be complementary.

    Thread Starter mattcurney

    (@mattcurney)

    1 year, 9 months ago

    Yes. What I mean to say is wp-cron is proving too unreliable to run the recurring tasks I need to run, causing me to explore Action Scheduler. Which releases me from managing my cron jobs via Crontrol.

    Thanks again for restoring the plugin in the meantime.

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