Cron even is working on update but not on publish

I have this code to change the category of the post depending on the date from the Advanced Custom Fields field:

function set_expiry_date( $post_id ) {

  // See if an event_end_date or event_date has been entered and if not then end the function
  if( get_post_meta( $post_id, $key = 'expire_date', $single = true ) ) {

    // Get the end date of the event in unix grenwich mean time
    $acf_end_date = get_post_meta( $post_id, $key = 'expire_date', $single = true );

  } else {

    // No start or end date. Lets delete any CRON jobs related to this post and end the function.
    wp_clear_scheduled_hook( 'closed', array( $post_id ) );
    return;

  }

  // Convert our date to the correct format
  $unix_acf_end_date = strtotime( $acf_end_date );
  $gmt_end_date = gmdate( 'Ymd', $unix_acf_end_date );
  $unix_gmt_end_date = strtotime( $gmt_end_date );

  // Get the number of seconds in a day
  $delay = 24 * 60 * 60; //24 hours * 60 minutes * 60 seconds

  // Add 1 day to the end date to get the day after the event
  $day_after_event = $unix_gmt_end_date + $delay;

  // Temporarily remove from 'Past Event' category
  // wp_remove_object_terms( $post_id, 'active', 'category' );

  // If a CRON job exists with this post_id them remove it
  wp_clear_scheduled_hook( 'closed', array( $post_id ) );
  // Add the new CRON job to run the day after the event with the post_id as an argument

  $current_date = date('Ymd');
  $current_date = strtotime($current_date);
  if ($day_after_event >= $current_date) {
  	wp_schedule_single_event( $day_after_event , 'closed', array( $post_id ) );
  }

}

// Hook into the save_post_{post-type} function to create/update the cron job everytime an event is saved.
add_action( 'save_post', 'set_expiry_date', 20 );

// Create a function that adds the post to the past-events category
function set_past_event_category( $post_id ){

  // Set the post category to 'Past Event'
 	wp_set_post_categories( $post_id, array( 5 ) );
	//wp_remove_object_terms( $post_id, 'active', 'category' );

}

// Hook into the make_past_event CRON job so that the set_past_event_category function runs when the CRON job is fired.
add_action( 'closed', 'set_past_event_category' );

Cron event is added only when I update the post. It is not added when I publish the post. Does anybody see where is the problem?

Thanks!

• This topic was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by amedic.