Another Action Scheduler issue
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I recently signed up for a basic hosting account to explore building a basic webstore. I installed WordPress and also a few of themes and plugins. After that, I keep getting this message: Action Scheduler: 266 past-due actions found; something may be wrong. Read documentation »
I attempted to run a few of them. They were run successfully with one failure. I’m not sure if I should run each and every one, and there must be a better way to run all these through the UI at once or by batch instead of me manually running them all.
I then delved deeper into the issue and found that the problem is caused by this error:
There was a problem spawning a call to the WP-Cron system on your site. This means WP-Cron events on your site may not work. The problem was: Unexpected HTTP response code: 403
According to the documentation, this means an access control restriction such as BasicAuth, a firewall, a security or privacy plugin, some form of password protection, or an .htaccess rule is preventing your server from accessing wp-cron.php. But, I have not edited the .htacess file so I dont think thats the issue. I also dont think its my plugins:
Blocksy Companion: by CreativeThemes – 2.0.53
Elementor: by Elementor.com – 3.21.8
Image Optimizer by Elementor – Compress, Resize and Optimize Images: by Elementor.com – 1.3.0
Maintenance: by WebFactory Ltd – 4.12
WooCommerce: by Automattic – 8.9.3
WPForms Lite: by WPForms – 1.8.9.1However, I found a thread here which may resolve my issue. But where do I insert these 2 lines as mentioned by @supermichalpol in wp-cron.php:
wget -q -O – https://[website_address]/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron >/dev/null 2>&1; define(‘DISABLE_WP_CRON’, true);
I would be most grateful if someone on the forum could let me know where to insert these 2 lines. Thank you.
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Hi @barryhughes-1. Thank you for your reply. I have inserted the line at the end of the wp-config.php file, and trying visiting the website URL (https://example.com/wp-cron.php). So when visited, it is just a blank page. I understand this means the server is blocking the automatic execution of WP-Cron, and I will need to set up a real cron job or run the cron jobs manually.
Since I am just using a free hosting account (shared hosting), I may not have access to Crontab. So I will need to run Cron jobs manually, how does one do that? I have installed WP-Control plugin in my WordPress. Is there where I can run the jobs manually?
Hi @namehidden
To manually run cron jobs, you can indeed use the WP-Control plugin which you’ve already installed. Here’s how you can do it:
- Navigate to your WordPress dashboard.
- Go to “Tools” and then click on “Cron Events”.
- Here, you’ll see a list of all the scheduled tasks. You can run them manually by clicking on the “Run Now” link next to each task.
However, manually running cron jobs can be tedious if you have a lot of them. So, it would be best to find a permanent solution to the WP-Cron issue.
Since you’re on shared hosting, you might want to contact your hosting provider and ask them to check if any server-level restrictions might be blocking WP-Cron.
I hope this helps! If you have any other questions, feel free to ask.
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