Ok, I just found the existence of a cron system inside WP  and the manual execution thru wp-cron.php

Just tried it: php wp-cron.php

PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 30720 bytes) in … wp-content/plugins/simple-press/sp-api/sp-api-common-display.php on line 405

I have tried to raise the memory limit for php5 cli, no effect yet, I’ll continue searching…

Edit: Ok, I finally got wp-cron working, it looks like my changes for php.ini cli weren’t taken into consideration.

I now got it OK when I execute with php5 -d memory_limit=128M wp-cron.php

Unfortunately, it does not seem to recalculate the counts in the footer, all numbers are still the same.

Any idea ?

what did you actually run?  I dont think calling wp-cron.php will actually run cron jobs…

I would deactivate sp and then reactivate… this will restart the cron jobs… and everything should be updated in 1 hour… 

but all the stats are updated at once, so if some are updating, they all are…  not sure I know which stats you say are not updating – sorry, confused…

Mr Papa said

what did you actually run?  I dont think calling wp-cron.php will actually run cron jobs…

I would deactivate sp and then reactivate… this will restart the cron jobs… and everything should be updated in 1 hour… 

but all the stats are updated at once, so if some are updating, they all are…  not sure I know which stats you say are not updating – sorry, confused…

Thanks for your answer Mr Papa.

I did run wp-cron.php, which should, according to what I read forces the execution of cron tasks from WP.

I tought it would also affect SP, due to the error I got (located in SP code) when I first ran it.

It’s been one hour and half I have desactivated SP and reactivated it, the numbers hasn’t changed 

About stats, I mean most of the info that are located in the footer:

– moderators name (currently hidden on my forum as the wrong names are shown) 

– # of posts and # of members. I believe the other forum stats counts and member stats counts are out of date too, but I have not monitored the numbers yet. 

As you say, all the stats are probably affected, so my problem is why aren’t they updated and how to fix it ?

so look in the sfmembers table and see for a particular user what the posts column is. does it match what’s in the stats?  same for names matching display_name in sfmembers…

any errors listed in the site error log?

not sure what is going on since we have never had any other reports of the stats not running…

I checked wp_sfposts for a particular user_id that is in the top posters, I get 153 rows, the value 153 is in the posts column for this user_id in wp_sfmembers table, but there is still a value of 100 showing in the forum footer.

The users having moderator=1 in the wp_sfmembers table aren’t the ones listed as moderators in the forum footer.

My forum is running version 7944, I have been on SP5 beta since built 7474 that was upgraded from 4.4.5 (build 6398).

I have found a few php notices and warnings in SP error log, but nothing apparently related to cron updates.

If this is a very odd problem to fix, in the meantime do you have any idea how I can force the footer data to update ? 

dont know of any problem yet… still trying to understand your issue…  it is a singular report that we cannot duplicate yet…

in your sp theme template file spFunctions.php, try adding this line:

sp_cron_generate_stats()

that should force a rebuild…

Mr Papa said

dont know of any problem yet… still trying to understand your issue…  it is a singular report that we cannot duplicate yet…

in your sp theme template file spFunctions.php, try adding this line:

sp_cron_generate_stats()

that should force a rebuild…

Thanks a bunch, just forced a call to sp_cron_generate_stats() in my footer, that fixed it !

I just modified my footer to call the crontab few times each day.

I’m available if you want me to investigate more on what’s causing the crontab not to be run.

are any of your wp cron jobs running?? nothing in sever error logs?  or on forum – toolbox – error log?

Mr Papa said

are any of your wp cron jobs running?? nothing in sever error logs?  or on forum – toolbox – error log?

I gave it a few days testing.

The sp_cron_generate_stats() addition is working fine, but the updates are stopping if I remove the call.

I have few notices in the SP toolbox error log, but it doesn’t seem to be related with that cron issue.

(just for reference:

file: /simple-press/forum/library/sp-post-support.php
line: 46
function: sp_email_notifications
Notice | Trying to get property of non-object

) 

How can I check for the WP cron job ? I have installed Cron GUI WP plugin, I see SP related tasks (sph_stats_cron,sph_transient_cleanup_cron) but it does not report if the tasks execute or not. 

Thank you.

try writing a test wp blog post and schedule it to get published in 1 hour instead of immediately…  and wait an hour or two and see if it shows up…  will see if other cron jobs are running via wp cron…

I did try that and the article did not get published in time.

When I setup the post to be scheduled, cron GUI (WordPress plugin) reported:

The publish time was missed and I am getting “Missed schedule” in date column of my WordPress post list.

Looks like my WP cron has serious problems, I’ll check in that direction. 

Thanks again for your help.

hey, take a quick look in your wp-config.php file and make sure you havent defined

DISABLE_WP_CRON

as true…

This constant is not defined in my wp-config.php.

I’ll investigate this WP issue in more details.

Thanks.

okay. would be interested in what you find.