Two New Member Area Features: Your Dashboards and Cron Jobs

We have just added 2 new features to your MainWP Members area, Your Dashboards and Cron Jobs.

The “Your Dashboards” feature allows you to disable a MainWP Dashboard from your account without needing to contact support. This is especially helpful to users who want to change where there Dashboard is installed.

The “Cron Jobs” feature was created to send a web request via the Members area to your MainWP Dashboard. Some of the features such as backups and updates are triggered via the built in WP-Cron function.

The issue that arose is that we suggest you setup MainWP on a new domain or sub-domain and that site probably gets no traffic. However, the WP-Cron function requires traffic so if you didn’t visit your Dashboard the Wp-Cron didn’t fire and didn’t trigger the Dashboard features to run.

Our solution was to setup a web request via cron job to trigger those jobs each and everyday. The Cron Jobs page will tell you the last time the WP-Cron file was contacted and if there were any failures reaching that page.

If you wish to disable this feature and .  First, click on the green check in the active column. It will turn into a red X indicating it is disabled for that site.

Also, if you prefer to set it up as a Cron job from your own server read through this excellent WP-Cron tutorial at WP Tuts+ that walks you through everything.

Let us know what you think.