Wrong warning: The WordPress CRON jobs system is disabled.

[mahnunchik]

I've faced with incorrect warning:

The WordPress CRON jobs system is disabled. This means the garbage collection system will not work unless you run the CRON system manually.

Yep, the variable DISABLE_WP_CRON set to true. But cron works through system cron https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/cron/hooking-wp-cron-into-the-system-task-scheduler/#macos-and-linux

How to remove incorrect warning?

[mahnunchik]

Hi @donnchawp How to hide incorrect warning?

[donnchawp]

I think the warning should stay but it should be possible to dismiss it. Some users will have hosts that have the cron system disabled entirely and they'll wonder why garbage collection isn't working.

On the other hand, if it's dismissable, the user may forget that cron is disabled and wonder why their garbage collection has stopped working.

[mahnunchik]

For example I have system cron set up: https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/cron/hooking-wp-cron-into-the-system-task-scheduler/

It requires to set: define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true);

[d19dotca]

@donnchawp said:

I think the warning should stay but it should be possible to dismiss it.

It is not dismissible yet, unfortunately. I am in the same boat, WP cron is disabled but I have system crons running instead for improved performance. This error reported by Super Cache is misleading.

[d-packs]

I recommend adding a checkbox in the plugin settings "This site is using real cron in conjunction with define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true), please disable the CRON warning". This would show consideration towards your power users.

[mahnunchik]

Any news?

[d-packs]

This issue has nothing to do with Super Cache. However if moving it to this component solves it faster I'm game.

[JeffBurris]

This issue has nothing to do with Super Cache. However if moving it to this component solves it faster I'm game.

Well for me it has a bit to do with Super Cache because I never get the error until I install Super Cache on any site. I suppose you're saying all Super Cache is doing to expose it is implementing garbage cleanup, thereby exposing an erroneous error inherent in Wordpress? I've used another caching plugin with garbage cleanup and not noticed the error (but I need to do free now) , so does that suggest they had solved it on a plugin level, as might W Super Cache?

[gaswirth]

This issue only occurs for me when using Super Cache. In fact, the only place the error string appears (The WordPress CRON jobs system is disabled. This means the garbage collection system will not work unless you run the CRON system manually.) is in Super Cache's main wp-cache.php plugin file. We, too, are using a system CRON setup for performance, and our client thinks there's something wrong with her site, where it's just this erroneous error.

[d-packs]

I suppose you're saying all Super Cache is doing to expose it is implementing garbage cleanup

I'm saying I experienced the issue without having SuperCache installed. I'm not using that plugin at all.

[JeffBurris]

why is this being addressed to me, I haven't commented about this other than reporting what happens on my setup. I knpow nothing about how garbage cleanup works and would not claim to. I don't remember subscribing to this thread and amd receiving no other messages...

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[boltronics]

I don't think we even need to go so far as to have a checkbox in the plugin (although I wouldn't complain if such a thing existed). I think just having the user set another variable similar to DISABLE_WP_CRON would be sufficient. eg. having something likeOS_CRON_CONFIGURED manually set to true by the administrator.

This way, it's a trivial matter of adding a single if statement to wp-cache.php, which would hopefully allow this issue to be resolved very quickly.

[madalinignisca]

Would be wonderful if this warning can be turned off by a constant for all of us which run the cron from the system cron (I use wp-cli on linux system cron for example for this).