Title: Run Manually?
Last modified: April 5, 2017

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# Run Manually?

 *  [jmunsonii](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmunsonii/)
 * (@jmunsonii)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/run-manually/)
 * Greetings!
 * Is there any way to run this manually without WP-CLI?
 * I’m asking because my host is being very unhelpful diagnosing why wp-cron can’t
   be called normally (I’ve run out of possibilities to check) – I’m having to use
   a cPanel task to do so. The task is fine, however, that doesn’t help with this
   plugin and trying to use it.
 * Thanks!
 * Sincerely,
 * //s// Jon C. Munson II

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 *  [Juliette Reinders Folmer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jrf/)
 * (@jrf)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/run-manually/#post-8998311)
 * Absolutely!
 * This plugin is just a shell around the PHPCS PHPCompatibility standard. The plugin
   does have a whitelist, but other than that, you should get the same results if
   you just run PHP CodeSniffer (PHPCS) over the code using `PHPCompatibility` as
   the standard.
 * Simplest is probably to run it over a local copy of the site. Alternatively you
   would need to install both PHPCS as well as PHPCompatibility on your webserver
   and run the command over SSH on the command line.
 * You can find the information you need for installing PHPCS and PHPCompatibility
   here:
    [https://github.com/wimg/PHPCompatibility/blob/master/README.md](https://github.com/wimg/PHPCompatibility/blob/master/README.md)
 * Make sure you set the `testVersion` when you run the command as otherwise your
   results may not be as reliable as you’d like:
    [https://github.com/wimg/PHPCompatibility/blob/master/README.md#using-the-compatibility-sniffs](https://github.com/wimg/PHPCompatibility/blob/master/README.md#using-the-compatibility-sniffs)
 *  Thread Starter [jmunsonii](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmunsonii/)
 * (@jmunsonii)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/run-manually/#post-8998663)
 * Thank you for the response.
 * Unfortunately, I cannot install server-side code, so any option along those lines
   is out (hence no WP-CLI).
 * Neither can I install this site to a local copy – far too big and I’ve not got
   a local server that can handle it…
 * Any other options?
 * BTW, I have determined that the overall wp-cron system is not working on the 
   host we’re using, so I’ve pressed them for further assistance.
 *  [Juliette Reinders Folmer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jrf/)
 * (@jrf)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/run-manually/#post-8998731)
 * You don’t actually need to install the site locally, you just need a copy of 
   the PHP files. You can forget about the database, uploads directory and any JS
   or CSS files.
 * The tools I pointed to analyse the *code* in the files, they don’t *run* the 
   code.
 *  Thread Starter [jmunsonii](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmunsonii/)
 * (@jmunsonii)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/run-manually/#post-8998746)
 * Ah, gotcha – I might be able to make that work then… 🙂

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