Action Scheduler: 24 past-due actions found; something may be wrong.

The new update (9/22 here in the western US) now forces the number 0 and the notice is maintained in the header of my dashboard. Sadly, this is now irritating.

I was just puzzling through it myself and a reinstall of WP Rocket fixed the counting up problem. but the inaccurate number of zero (0) is useless.

Hello @mk721971 & @dougrees,

Thank you for contacting the support and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

If you are still seeing the notice in the latest version, please clear the cache of your site and navigate to WP Dashboard > Rank Math > Status & Tools > Database Tools and Remove Rank Math Transients.

Also, the notice is not an error but a message stating that there are pending Action Scheduler actions that were not completed.

You can follow either of the following steps to remove the warning:

1. Please add the following filter to remove the warning:
add_filter( 'action_scheduler_pastdue_actions_check_pre', '__return_false' );

1.1 Here is a tutorial on how to do it:
https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/

2. Open the Action Scheduler page, click on the Pending tab, Select all and delete them using the Bulk Action dropdown:
https://i.rankmath.com/XBucZ8
Normal WordPress installation path:
/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wc-status&tab=action-scheduler

WordPress installation with WooCommerce on it:
/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wc-status&tab=action-scheduler

3. You can set up a real cron job for the same:
https://www.siteground.com/tutorials/wordpress/real-cron-job/
https://www.google.com/search?q=wp+cron+replace+with+real+cron

Please stay advised that the Action Scheduler will not run if there are no visitors to the site (just like WP’s own cron).

Even Action Scheduler, the library that is used in the RM plugin, states that “Actions that are past-due have missed their scheduled date; because of how WP Cron works, it is normal to have some past-due actions.”

Hope that helps. If you need further faster assistance, please check the following resource:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/attention-read-this-before-posting/

@rankmathteam

SUPER – things look back to normal and I appreciate the details over the last week or so. I realize that we only gained visibility to the situation, though I could not understand how it was counting up in front of me, it’s good to have the visible real estate back. I appreciate the guidance on the actual fix as well.

Thanks!

Hello @dougrees,

Glad that helped.

If it isn’t too much to ask for – would you mind leaving us a review here?
https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/reviews/#new-post

It only takes a couple of minutes but helps us tremendously.

It would mean so much to us and would go a really long way.

Thank you.