Not working with external cron

  • Resolved wordmax

    (@wordmax)


    6 years, 6 months ago

    Magic plugin was working great with WordPress Automatic plugin when WP Automatic was set to run on WordPress internal cron. But when we try to run WP Automatic with external cron, Magic fails to fetch & set featured image before the post is published.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks!

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  • Plugin Author Alexandre Gaboriau

    (@mcurly)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    Hello Max,

    I think this is normal.
    There are some security measures to trigger the plugin feature only when a user launch it, or when it’s a specific plugin.
    I don’t know exactly how works WP Automatic but I guess that the external cron fail to pass security checks.

    I add it to my todo list.

    Just one question, why you setup an external cron. Isn’t it better to setup the internal cron?

    Greetings

    Thread Starter wordmax

    (@wordmax)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    Hi Alexandre,

    Thanks for responding to my question.

    I agree with you, yes it’s better to use internal cron. The WP Automatic plugin internal cron which was working fine began to malfunction and not work anymore. Could be a conflict w/ another plugin, I can’t figure it out. The dev says to run external cron and offers no help/suggestions why internal cron stopped working without any changes to the plugin settings or the plugin code.

    Thanks for your help, I appreciate it.

    Thread Starter wordmax

    (@wordmax)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    Not sure, maybe a change to your plugin latest version, but the WP Automatic internal cron is working again, and the Magic auto (Google Scrape option) images appear to be working correctly.

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    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    Hi there @wordmax I have removed the signature link from your reply.

    As mentioned a warning you received last month, please do not do that, we consider it spam.

    As this is a second warning, if it continues, you may find your account banned.

    Plugin Author Alexandre Gaboriau

    (@mcurly)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    Good to know that it works. The new version fix an issue with post types & categories (when no one is chosen). Maybe that was the problem.

    Thread Starter wordmax

    (@wordmax)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    Hello James (@macmanx)

    Thanks for letting me know.
    Had no intention of using links as spam.
    Purely as a reference/example for plugin devs, for issues regarding plugins.
    So would appreciate some leniency on this issue.

    How are we supposed to relay issues to plugin devs without using live site examples?
    Frustrating being classified as a “spammer” when it’s certainly not the intention.

    Make sense??
    Thanks

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    How are we supposed to relay issues to plugin devs without using live site examples?

    @wordmax You already included your site’s link in your original post here.

    Continuing to add it as a signature link in your replies doesn’t add anything to the thread: https://wordpress.org/support/guidelines/#do-not-spam

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