I’ve installed a wordpress instance from your control panel, all generall well however when I set the plugins to auto-install, the install isn’t happening and I’m getting this: [image] Is this expected behaviour? It’s a pretty vanilla install, nothing special. I presume these updates are run thro…

[image] Murray: when I set the plugins to auto-install It isn’t recommended to let them auto upgrade, nor upgrading muliple plugins at the same time, as this can easily broke the execution time limit.

[image] Murray: WP-CRON should run I believe all forms of cron are not available on free hosting [image] Cron Job Feature is now disabled News and Announcements As of today, the 9th August 2023, the Cron Jobs feature is disabled. In collaboration with iFastNet, we…

[image] KangJL: I believe all forms of cron are not available on free hosting The WP-CRON would fire at every page load if DISABLE_WP_CRON isn’t defined as true.

[image] Murray: when I set the plugins to auto-install Please read [image] How to install, setup and update WordPress correctly Community Guides Do you often see this on your WordPress website? [image] If so you may need to change some of the installation setting…

[image] Meishin: The WP-CRON would fire Yes it will trigger but I do not think any cron job can run as it is no longer available on free hosting. This is the reason why OP had that notification

Why wouldn’t a PHP script fire if I just call it with something like require_once script.php? Naming that script wp-cron.php doesn’t affect anything, what do matters is the execution time of that script, which may go over 30 sec and gets killed. This is why you don’t enable auto upgrade for all yo…

Thanks @Meishin , there aren’t that many plugins, so execution time limit isn’t an issue in this case.

Thanks @KangJL but it’s not a cron job, it’s a PHP script called WP-CRON which is supposed to be triggered on page load. It’s even stopping the setup of some plugins from working properly which is quite annoying. I’ll take a look at the page you recommended, thanks again.

You could try opening the wp-cron.php URL yourself, both to see if it works and to move the cron jobs along.

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