Can Appear Not to Work

At first I found this plugin to be very frustrating as it refused to work.

However, after trying other similar plugins which also failed, I realised it may be a Cron problem with my site and not the plugin.

I hope the following solutions help someone – as this plugin is well worth the effort to get it working!

The very helpful Diagnostics & Debugging features in this plugin helped me to see that there were “old” dates and times in the Cron queue – so that confirmed my suspicions that Cron wasn’t working.

Apparently some hosts prevent the standard way WP uses Cron – but you can solve this by using an alternative method (Search ‘ALTERNATE_WP_CRON’).

Once Cron was working this excellent plugin did too – and it’s superb.

Finally, the Alternate Cron method above produces an unwanted side-effect – the addition of “doing_wp_cron” to the URL in the form of a query string. Luckily this can be solved too (Search ‘How To Solve WP-Cron Job Errors Caused By WordPress Hosting’);