Title: Plugin Stuck
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Plugin Stuck

 *  [Heyallo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heyallo/)
 * (@heyallo)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stuck/)
 * Hello, so I activated this plugin on two of my blogs and on the larger one of
   the two, the plugin is stuck and not doing its thing to generate stats.
 * I tried to enable/disable plugin and I made sure that wp-cron isn’t disabled,
   so I’m kind of at a loss why its not working.
 * would it being on a blog site in a pw-protected folder affect it?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/word-stats/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/word-stats/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Fran Ontanaya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fran-ontanaya/)
 * (@fran-ontanaya)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stuck/#post-3826800)
 * Probably not, but I’ll think about it. After activating it, does it display the
   yellow message that says, “Word stats collection is scheduled (x posts left).
   Stats will be available in a little while”?
 * The simplest reason for it failing would be that the script is timing out before
   it finishes its task of processing even a single post. Do you have very large
   posts, or is the blog hosted in a slow server?
 * I’m very interested in your issue, since it shows only in one of the blogs, so
   I’d like to know any differences between both you can think of.
 *  Thread Starter [Heyallo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heyallo/)
 * (@heyallo)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stuck/#post-3826807)
 * It’s not a huge blog, some of the posts are long but not *long long* and it does
   say “Word stats collection is scheduled (1044 posts left). Stats will be available
   in a little while”
 *  Thread Starter [Heyallo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heyallo/)
 * (@heyallo)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stuck/#post-3826808)
 * might I make a suggestion, giving the user the ability to manually run the script?
 *  Thread Starter [Heyallo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heyallo/)
 * (@heyallo)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stuck/#post-3826831)
 * ok, so after running the wp-cron.php several times, individually, it worked. 
   then went back to scheduled after i changed word count to “5000”
 * (I don’t know what the highest count is on one post/page, but I wanted to include
   everything)
 *  Plugin Author [Fran Ontanaya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fran-ontanaya/)
 * (@fran-ontanaya)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stuck/#post-3826836)
 * Until we find the cause, an option could be to disable wp-cron running on page
   loads and instead use a real cron job to trigger wp-cron every few minutes:
 * [http://wpdailybits.com/blog/replace-wordpress-cron-with-real-cron-job/74](http://wpdailybits.com/blog/replace-wordpress-cron-with-real-cron-job/74)
 * I’ll add manual running to my to-do list.
 *  Thread Starter [Heyallo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heyallo/)
 * (@heyallo)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stuck/#post-3826841)
 * another suggestion that the blog owner (of the blog that it did work on) suggested
   adding a “No Min/Max” word limit option for the writers out there hehe
 *  Plugin Author [Fran Ontanaya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fran-ontanaya/)
 * (@fran-ontanaya)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stuck/#post-3826860)
 * It can be changed in the settings page, although someday I’d like to have more
   advanced settings so people can say, for example, status post formats should 
   have 300 words max, but standard post formats can have any length, etc.

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 * Last activity: [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-stuck/#post-3826860)
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