Specify time for "Automatic Periodic Table Import"-Plugin

  • Resolved Anonymous User 5580574

    (@anonymized-5580574)


    12 years, 1 month ago

    I’m glad you have the plugin “Automatic Periodic Table Import”.

    1. Is there any way to change the time like to once a day at 6 o’clock? The way so far is too relative, in my case.

    2. If not, maybe a ping to a specific file (by own cronjob) to do the import job?

    3. Is there also a way to extract the date of the “Last Auto Import”? I would post it to the theme, where the automatically updated table appears.

    Cheers! And thanks for all you hard work. Awesome!
    Sebastian

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/

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  • Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    12 years, 1 month ago

    Hi Sebastian,

    thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

    1. No, sorry, that’s not possible, due to how the WordPress Cron function works. One can not really set a definite time at which the import is run, as the time depends on users visiting the site after the given time.

    2. Now, as calling the WP Cron system with a real server cron job is possible (you can find tutorials via Google), it should be possible to let the import cron run at about 6 o’clock. For that, you would have to save the Auto Import configuration at 6 o’clock (because the WP cron job gets registered with that time then), and use a system cron job to trigger the cron execution.

    3. Sure, that’s possible by simply using the “Last modified” date of a table, which is available via a Shortcode as well:

    [table-info id=2 field="last_modified" format="raw" /]

    You can also use human and mysql for the format parameter to get different date/time formats.

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter Anonymous User 5580574

    (@anonymized-5580574)

    12 years, 1 month ago

    Hi Tobias,

    thx for the fast reply, but especially for the information! That helped a lot.

    I think this topic is resolved.

    Beste regards and furthermore good luck with the plugin!
    Sebastian

    Plugin Author Tobias Bäthge

    (@tobiasbg)

    12 years, 1 month ago

    Hi,

    no problem, you are very welcome! 🙂 Good to hear that this helped!

    Best wishes,
    Tobias

    P.S.: In case you haven’t, please rate TablePress here in the plugin directory. Thanks!

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