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so just the number 1? what if you add a timestamp that is in the future when you add the one?
a bit confused because these are all just wp functions... is your wp cron functionality working? if you create a new wp blog post and schedule it for 10 minutes in the future, does it post?
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Good point Mr Papa! I did a bit of looking about on Wordpress and found the problem.
The situation is this: my hosting company (a big and well-established UK hosting company) has decided that scheduled cron jobs on shared hosting is a resourcing/security issue. Basically they doubt the competancy of the people kicking the crons off in case the jobs bring the server to its knees - or so they tell me.
But I find it a bit odd that I am able to kick off sph_stats_cron manually?
It leaves me a bit stuck and I'm wondering how many other things it will affect? I take it my weekly subscription email will be affected?
Any advice gratefully receieved!
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Vicky.
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Steve is the expert on this not me and If I get something wrong here than I am sure he will chime in when he is around later... So...
Are you confusing 'wp-cron' with the normal *nix 'Cron'? The wp version is really only a sort of pseudo cron - it doesn't use the *nix cron scheduler bit sort of emulates it. But - as I understand it - it does make a separate HTTP call to the wp-cron.php file in the background so it might be that your hosting has stopped that. If that is the case then I am unsure of a possible solution but it can be explored.
So the reason why the cron task itself can be successfully run from our Cron Task toolbox would be that it bypasses that background call to wp-cron.php which is the main processor for all Wp cron tasks - and runs the task function itself immediately.
Now Steve... did I get that right? 
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yes, pretty much right! but on some hosts, the wp cron stuff still doesnt run right...
the easiest thing to do, at least for now, is to edit your spFunctions.php file in your sp theme (be sure its yours and not one of ours so you dont lose changes)... and put this line of code in there:
do_action('sph_stats_cron');
this will cause the stats go get updated on every page load... its a bit overkill and will use a few resources but will ensure stats are up to date...
then you can test the wp cron as I said above in post #11... the wp.org support forum has lots of threads about wp cron not working...
if you know php code, you could come up with a very small piece of code to put around the do_action code I just gave you to not run it every time...
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