Scheduled Actions

  • Resolved pgDarkness

    (@pgdarkness)


    7 years, 4 months ago

    Hi there,
    Can you guys please STOP doing this?

    Let me elaborate:
    Here I am entangled with a Cron Job problem that my plugin is having, going forth and back scratching my head trying to find out why my plugin’s WP Cron does not fire.
    And then I stumble upon this item here: Tools > Scheduled Actions.
    And my first impression is like: “Cool, finally new version of WordPress developed a UI for Cron Jobs! So this is a proof my Cron Job registration doesn’t work since its empty.” Making me rewrite almost 50% of the code which took me about 16 hours of focused work.
    Finally, lost to the fight, given up on any hope, a thought saves me: “Wait a minute, Scheduled Actions? Where the heck this one came from again?” which made me searching plugins for about 2 hours straight to finally finding out that this menu is created by glorious awesome plugin “WOOCOMMERCE”!

    THIS MENU DOES NOT HAVE ANY DESCRIPTION OR ANY PIECE OF INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT IT DOES AND WHAT IT REPRESENTS OR WHAT PLUGIN CREATED IT. WHAT ARE WE? WIZARDS?

    This is a very bad practice throwing orphan menu with no description what so ever to the user’s face. WHY??

    Now, after 3 days of hard work, I’m back to my first place with nothing to show for it except a proof that even WooCommerce devs make a doodoo.

    (In the slightest chance ever, if this menu is not created by WooCommerce, excuse my ranting and just delete this post.)

    Anyhow, would u please don’t do this?
    Add one line of description to this menu.

    Thanks.

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  • Peter Lawrenson

    (@lorro)

    7 years, 4 months ago

    I think Scheduled Actions is to do with subscriptions which may be due monthly or annually.

    For seeing and editing your sites cron schedule, have you tried:
    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/wp-crontrol/

    The other piece of the cron puzzle is to check whether you have this line in wp-config.php:
    define(‘DISABLE_WP_CRON’, true);
    If so, your crons must be fired as a proper cron job within cpanel. As usual, unix commands have to be spot on to work, otherwise crons won’t fire at all.

    If you don’t have that line in wp-config.php, the cron list would be checked at page load time. So, on a dev site with no visitors, they won’t fire.

    Phil

    (@fullysupportedphil)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    7 years, 4 months ago

    Hey @pgdarkness sorry for the confusion that page caused you.

    If you’d like to suggest some changes to that page (or any other element of WooCommerce), it is a fully open source project that you can join here:

    https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce

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