I am having a doubt about using “Cron Job” .
I have installed a Plugin named FeedWordpress which lets us to publish RSS feeds .It has given me an option to publish automatically or to publish by setting cron Jobs .
Could any one guide me to set these Cron Job? I have no Idea on it .This is the message it given for that configuration .
If you want to use a cron job, you can
perform scheduled updates by sending
regularly-scheduled requests to
http://……?update_feedwordpress=1
For example, inserting the following
line in your crontab:*/10 * * * * /usr/bin/curl –silent http://……?update_feedwordpress=1
will check in every 10 minutes and
check for updates on any feeds that
are ready to be polled for updates.
I have another doubt .Is there any possibility to slow down and affects the load (It is of shared hosting ) ,if I turn on the Automatic Updates of feeds?How does it helps me If I use cron Job and put a cetain limit? So that it affects the server load only when It updates the feeds .
Is there any chance to suspend my hosting account by Host If I Make my Blog as Aggregator because of high loads?
Cron is job scheduling mechanism in Unix-based operating systems. It depends on your hosting if you have access to it.
Since WordPress needs to run some tasks periodically it has own PHP-based mechanism called WP-Cron that is both used by core and accessible to plugins.
Basically OS cron is more reliable, WP-Cron is more compatible.
Automatic updatesmost likely refers to plugin using WP-Cron.How much this might be issue with hosting depends on: