Issue Syncing Child Sites with Cron - Not working

[Tinch72 (Jeff T)]

My MainWP setup is no longer correctly syncing child sites via Cron and I need to manually sync in order to see the updates for plugins, themes, etc. I’ve read a few older posts having similar issues and tried most of the “suggestions” but nothing seems to be working anymore.

This all stopped working when I tried to disable wp-cron and use my Gridpane GP-Cron to manage all updates, cron, etc. I have since DISABLED external cron, reset the MainWP to turn wp-cron back on, but nothing is working again.

When looking in MainWP > INFO > Cron the mainwp_cronupdatescheck_action hasn’t run since Feb 2023, take a look at these other weird issues on the cron schedule.

Does anyone have any ideas of what I screwed up and if so, how should i fix things?

Do you just stick with the built in MainWp cron settings and use WPcron, or did you disable and move to external cron manager? any help is appreciated

[bojan (Bojan Katusic)]

Hi @Tinch72

When you disabled the external Cron, did you enable the Cron in MainWP Settings?

And can you check if there are any commands in wp-config.php related to WP Cron?

Our usual recommendation is that if you want to make sure that WP-Cron jobs are regularly triggered on your MainWP Dashboard, you can add your Dashboard site as a monitor to an uptime service such as Uptime Robot.

The Uptime Robot will ping your dashboard site regularly and make sure that all scheduled events are occurring.

[Tinch72 (Jeff T)]

yes i did. I’ll create a support ticket in case you or anyone needs to get access to check on my site and settings.