Hi i was testing on one of my subdomains the part of notification and I was not able to make WP Amelia to send the notification about "Reminder" So I would like to know if someone of you can help me with it. I was trying, fighting with the corn and so on, but i really was not able to setup it. I see a video tutorial of you but I can not do it, need something more specific. Also i see the documentation but Still have problems. Hope you can help me
Yes, sending Reminder notifications requires a special setting named cron.
Cron is a Linux utility that schedules a command or script on your server to run automatically at a specified time and date. A cron job is the scheduled task itself. Cron jobs can be used to automate repetitive tasks like in our plugin for notifications.
If you’re not familiar with setting up crons, I would recommend to use the Crontrol plugin since it makes the process way easier. For that, please follow the steps below:
Please install the WP Crontrol plugin on your WordPress.
Copy only the URL from below a scheduled notification on Amelia -> Notifications page (don't copy this */15*** part, only the part that marked on the screenshot which is starting with http):
Open the Crontrol plugin on the WP Plugins page, that what you will see:
Click on "Cron Schedules", enter the following details, and click on "Add Cron Schedule":
Then go to "Cron Event" and add the URL you've copied from Amelia -> Notifications page to this:
file_get_contents("your copied URL");
Please don't miss any symbols, especially the ; in the end. So it will look like this:
Below it, add the name and set Next Run to your current time + 30 muns (for example, at 12.50):
Click on "Add Event".
After that, you can open Amelia, book a test appointment for the next day, set the Next Day Reminder notification to a bit later time that you set Next Run for (in my example, it's 13:00), and see if you receive a Reminder notification in about 30 mins:
Hi i was testing on one of my subdomains the part of notification and I was not able to make WP Amelia to send the notification about "Reminder" So I would like to know if someone of you can help me with it. I was trying, fighting with the corn and so on, but i really was not able to setup it. I see a video tutorial of you but I can not do it, need something more specific. Also i see the documentation but Still have problems. Hope you can help me
Hi, Gonzalo!
Thank you for choosing Amelia.
Yes, sending Reminder notifications requires a special setting named cron.
Cron is a Linux utility that schedules a command or script on your server to run automatically at a specified time and date. A cron job is the scheduled task itself. Cron jobs can be used to automate repetitive tasks like in our plugin for notifications.
If you’re not familiar with setting up crons, I would recommend to use the Crontrol plugin since it makes the process way easier. For that, please follow the steps below:
Please install the WP Crontrol plugin on your WordPress.
Copy only the URL from below a scheduled notification on Amelia -> Notifications page (don't copy this */15*** part, only the part that marked on the screenshot which is starting with http):
Open the Crontrol plugin on the WP Plugins page, that what you will see:
Click on "Cron Schedules", enter the following details, and click on "Add Cron Schedule":
Then go to "Cron Event" and add the URL you've copied from Amelia -> Notifications page to this:
file_get_contents("your copied URL");
Please don't miss any symbols, especially the ; in the end. So it will look like this:
Below it, add the name and set Next Run to your current time + 30 muns (for example, at 12.50):
Click on "Add Event".
After that, you can open Amelia, book a test appointment for the next day, set the Next Day Reminder notification to a bit later time that you set Next Run for (in my example, it's 13:00), and see if you receive a Reminder notification in about 30 mins:
Hope that will help.
Best Regards.