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Archive for September 2009

Careful with Cron!

soft-clock I’ve been strutting my stuff with handy “how-to” posts for a while. Time to eat some humble pie and give you a “how-not-to”…

Cron is a Unix staple for scheduling tasks. WordPress has a scheduling system that’s named after it. I think recently it got a new set of functions to make it easier to work with—things like wp_schedule_event. Anyway, I’m not going to explain it all to you because I don’t know. As I said, I’m going to show you what not to do.

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