Where to place cron job code

  • Resolved Jasnick

    (@jasnick)


    9 years, 7 months ago

    Good afternoon
    On the suggestion of my hosting company I recently added define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true); to my wp-config file.
    Then I discovered my backups weren’t working. Read up on the situation and copied this code from UpdraftPlus

    define('UPDRAFTPLUS_CONSOLELOG', true);
define('DOING_CRON', true);
require_once('wp-load.php');
do_action('updraft_backup_all');

    Do I place this in my wp-config file or in a new file?

    Then do I set up via cPanel/Cron Jobs a new job using the command
    /usr/local/bin/php /home/user/public_html/wp-cron.php

    and set a time etc and do this for all my sites? I imagine this setting would need to correspond to whatever time settings I have set in UpdraftPlus settings?

    Thanks

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  • Plugin Contributor DNutbourne

    (@dnutbourne)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    Hi,

    You will need to place the following code in a new .php file in your WordPress root directory:

    <?php

define('UPDRAFTPLUS_CONSOLELOG', true);
define('DOING_CRON', true);
require_once('wp-load.php');
do_action('updraft_backup_all');

    You will then need to set up a cronjob to call that file at the same time that the backup is scheduled, and several additional times at 5-10 minute intervals

    This will need to be set up for each site.

    Thread Starter Jasnick

    (@jasnick)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks DNutbourne
    I may have jumped the gun here. As you can tell I am not all that conversant with php. When I disabled the WP cronjob I replaced it with a Real cronjob. I have since realised that the UpdraftPlus backups are indeed working so I imagine that the Real cronjob is doing the same thing as the WP one.

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