Help Scheduling Annual Event for Exact Date WordPress
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Need some help scheduling an event for specific time. I am using Cron View to keep an eye on what is in Cron but I can't seem to get this added.
add_action('my_yearly_event', 'do_this_on_june_thirty');
function my_activation_2() {
wp_schedule_event( 1372636740, 'yearly', 'my_yearly_event');
}
add_action('wp', 'my_activation_2');
function do_this_on_june_thirty() { //Stuff
}
I think I am not scheduling properly, I need it to fire once with a plugin activation or something.. not sure
(I added the yearly interval to schedule)
Answers (2)
John Cotton answers:
function my_activation() {
if ( !wp_next_scheduled( 'my_annual_event' ) ) {
wp_schedule_event( time(), 'annually', 'my_annual_event');
}
}
register_activation_hook(__FILE__, 'my_activation');
function do_this_annually() {
// do something once a year
}
add_action('my_annual_event', 'do_this_annually');
function my_corn_schedules(){
return array(
'annually' => array(
'interval' => 60 * 60 * 24 * 365,
'display' => 'Once a year'
)
);
}
add_filter( 'cron_schedules', 'my_corn_schedules');
Kyle comments:
Hi John, I already added the schedule. This will add the event for now (judging by the time() .. needs to be June 30 like above)
Schedule:
function my_add_intervals($schedules) {
$schedules['yearly'] = array(
'interval' => 31557600,
'display' => __('Once Yearly')
);
return $schedules;
}
add_filter( 'cron_schedules', 'my_add_intervals');
Is the only other change this:
add_action('wp', 'my_activation_2');
to
register_activation_hook(__FILE__, 'my_activation_2');
Kyle comments:
The register_activation_hook broke my site, I have not used that before so I may have done something wrong
Arnav Joy answers:
using yearly event you can fire it once in a year , so what is the problem , you can test it using 'hourly ' option and then if everything is ok then you can change it to yearly
Kyle comments:
Agreed, I guess I didn't explain my problem right. Even with changing it to time() and hourly nothing is added to cron so I am wondering what is wrong