2.0.23 Cron Job Times Out – Makes Server Die Dead

It’s still broken I’m afraid – HostGator has just taken all my sites down again.

@bhargavy – We would gladly try to help you with this issue you are seeing if you could submit a Bug Report here: https://www.nextgen-gallery.com/report-bug/

We will most likely need log in credentials to your WordPress installation and possibly FTP credentials as well for our Support Team / Developers to have a closer look at this, please feel free to include them with the Bug Report.

All – If you are still having issues with CRON jobs by all means you are welcome to submit a Bug Report with your specifics, too.

Thanks!

– Cais.

@photocrati – Its ok I managed to remove the cron jobs

I disabled the plugin, updated it to the latest version then I added 2 lines to the function.php

wp_clear_scheduled_hook( 'ngg_delete_transients' );
wp_clear_scheduled_hook( 'ngg_delete_expired_transients' );

Then I reactivated the updated NGG.

Now it seems to be working fine.

@bhargavy –

Thanks for the feedback, we’re glad you got this sorted out; and, thanks for sharing your work-around.

As far as we can tell, sites with “huge” numbers of “transient” records may still suffer from overload but once they are cleared (as in your method or similar) then all is well.

– Cais.

bhargavy, don’t forget remove “wp_clear_scheduled_hook” from function.php after solve problem with bad cron jobs.

We had a client of ours hit with this issue so we made a quick plugin to clean out the cron. It is based on the code from bhargavy. Simply deactivate the NextGEN Gallery plugin and then install and activate our plugin. It deletes the cron entries upon activation. You can then deactivate and delete our plugin and reactivate NextGEN Gallery. Hope it helps someone! https://www.contentrobot.com/downloads/cr-clean-ngg-cron.zip