Ability to run via CRON / WP-CRON about wp2static

[leonstafford]

Thanks for looking at this guys. Happy to merge a pull request if you get it working.

I haven't been able to focus on the plugin much of late, but doing some work around GitHub Pages export functionality this week, so will hopefully be able to sort the S3 export issues with version 1.9 at the same time.

Just the fact that people like you are using the plugin and putting in effort to make it do more is a good motivation for me to keep pushing. Thank you!

[leonstafford]

Hi all,

The ability to export via WP Crontrol plugin via a custom hook was added in a recent release. Please see some instructions in the readme here: https://github.com/leonstafford/wordpress-static-html-plugin

I have some documentation being prepared with screenshots, etc on how to do this, but have a try in the meantime. Hopefully it will solve your needs for scheduled exports.

I'll be expanding CLI export options soon.

Cheers,

Leon

[chiriboga]

This would be fantastic as I too was looking for this as well. Any updates?

[lazmo88]

@chiriboga apparently no updates unfortunately, have you found any alternative to achieve the same?

[chiriboga]

@lazmo88 I actually did. I was able to write a bit extra code within their plugin that looks for a variable in the URL. So then I created the cron to point to the page with the extra variable in the URL. when the page gets hit, the code sees that the variable is there and I use jQuery to basically do the click event.

[lazmo88]

@chiriboga that sounds great! Are you planning to do a pull request or share your snippet by any chance? 😋

[chiriboga]

It's dirty but try it out. This will ONLY work on 1.8 since I read that the S3 part is broken in 1.9.
http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/tools.php?page=wp-static-html-output-options&cron=yes

notice the &cron=yes

now open up views > options-page.phtml

before line 85 add this:
if(window.location.href.indexOf("cron") > -1) { $('#progress').show(); processArchives(); $('#results').html(''); }

you can try it in the browser when you do it by just adding that cron=yes to the url. now the code just looks for the word "cron" doesn't care if it equals yes or no or rich or laz.

then you can try creating a cron job to run and run it as php.

hope this helped!

[lazmo88]

Thanks @chiriboga I will give it a shot :) Does WP required some kind of login token? Or does it allow running the scripts if the php is running from CLI?

[chiriboga]

@lazmo88 I am not sure. I had to stop before testing too much of it and moved to something else. But definitely let me know.

[chiriboga]

hey @lazmo88 did it work for you?

[chiriboga]

@leonstafford Just created a pull request

[sinak]

Was that PR merged in?

[leonstafford]

Hi @sinak,

Sorry for the late response. This PR was unfortunately not usable with the plugin in its current state. I'm working on another solution to CRON/WP-CLI triggering of exports that I'll be testing in the next few days.

Cheers,

Leon