By justinw
I have a wordpress website running a LearnDash with the Notifications Add-on. LearnDash recommends a Cron Job to manage this process because the native Wordpress mail setup isn’t sufficient. Here’s an article from LearnDash explaining this.
I followed this article to set up a cron job but it doesn’t seem to be working.
Any ideas why?
Here is my crontab after following the steps and running crontab -l:
# Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron.
#
# Each task to run has to be defined through a single line
# indicating with different fields when the task will be run
# and what command to run for the task
#
# To define the time you can provide concrete values for
# minute (m), hour (h), day of month (dom), month (mon),
# and day of week (dow) or use '*' in these fields (for 'any').#
# Notice that tasks will be started based on the cron's system
# daemon's notion of time and timezones.
#
# Output of the crontab jobs (including errors) is sent through
# email to the user the crontab file belongs to (unless redirected).
#
# For example, you can run a backup of all your user accounts
# at 5 a.m every week with:
# 0 5 * * 1 tar -zcf /var/backups/home.tgz /home/
#
# For more information see the manual pages of crontab(5) and cron(8)
#
# m h dom mon dow command
* * * * * wget -q -O - 'https://puredesire.org/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron&cron=true'
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Hi there @justinw,
This actually looks all good. If for any reason this is still not working, I could suggest a couple of things:
-q flag:wget -O - 'https://puredesire.org/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron&cron=true'
This should show you any errors that could be preventing the cron from wokring
sudo tail -100 /var/log/syslog
Let me know how it goes! Regards, Bobby
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