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Wordpress and Cron Jobs

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dmanherz
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Wordpress and Cron Jobs

has anyone else experienced a program with wordpress 2.9 not running cron jobs or scheduled tasks.
Is there a way to get it working again?

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Try this: Access the WordPress file "wp-cron.php" using your browser ( example: http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-cron.php ). Loading this URL should update your scheduled posts. Observe your blog from time to time to check if it is still not publishing your scheduled posts. If its still not updating automatically, you can setup a cron job on your control panel that runs for a specific schedule (let's say, everyday or every hour) with the following syntax:

/usr/bin/wget http://yourdomain.com/wp-cron.php
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Thanks.
I tried loading that url for my site but it just keeps loading and loading and loading. Nothing seems to happen. I can't see anything.

How do we set up a cron job on the affilio hosts
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wp-cron.php page actually loads no results and will just give you a blank page. To setup a cron job on your Affilohost control panel, go to "Web Tools" section, click on "Scheduled Tasks". Please try this format instead:



Enter this command on the "Run this command:" textbox and then select the interval from the options below the textbox. Do not forget to replace 'yourdomain.com' with your own domain name. To test if the command is working, click on the "Test Command" button.
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