Hello @visibledeals ,
I’m sorry to hear about this issue.
Did you have LazyLoad enabled in Smush when checkout stopped working? Can you try enabling plugin again and check with LazyLoad enabled and disable?
If that is this feature causing the issue, please try excluding the checkout page from lazyloading.
As for The scheduled event, smush_check_for_conflicts is late to run issue – smush_check_for_conflicts is a background task that Smush is running to do some regular maintenance checks. It uses wp-cron to run the task (wp-cron is a built-in WordPress feature that allows plugin authors to run background actions on a predefined schedule).
The issue here is possibly caused by the fact that wp-cron can only run if the site is being visited. So for example if a task is scheduled to be run at midday and there are no visitors until 1pm, then the task will be run at 1pm – so it will be 1h late. On every page load WordPress checks if there are any scheduled tasks that need to be run and executes them.
You can read more about wp-cron here: https://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/wp-cron/
There are two ways to ensure the background wp-cron tasks are run regularly and as scheduled:
1. Request your hosting provider to set up a server-side cron job for you to regularly “ping” your site. It’s basically like having a fake visitor that will trigger wp-cron to run.
On our hosting we have such a server-side cron job set up by default – it runs every 5 minutes and calls a server side script that triggers all wp-cron tasks (using wp-cli) on the site.
2. Use an external service to regularly ping your site. Example services like that are:
– https://www.easycron.com/
– https://www.pingdom.com/
kind regards,
Kasia
