title: Getting cron job to work with wp-cron.php for Wordpress
body: <p>I am trying to enable digests to be sent by the Buddypress group email notification plugin for Buddypress/Wordpress, without success. </p>
  
  <p>Here's what's happened so far:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>I have confirmed that all items are getting added to the digest list generated by the plugin by visiting the page that shows these, i.e. http://[site url]/?sum=1</p></li>
  <li><p>I am able to manually trigger the sending of digests by visiting the URL for wp-cron.php, i.e. http://[site url]/wp-cron.php in my browser.</p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>So, the issue is with the triggering of wp-cron.php. Having researched this it seems like it would be a good idea for me to set up a cron job on my server, as there is not much traffic to my site and the built in WordPress pseudo cron job only gets triggered when someone visits the site.</p>
  
  <p>The issue I now have is what to enter for the command for the cron job. I have tried many things, but I currently have this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>wget -O /dev/null http://soteriabrighton.co.uk/wp-cron.php
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have it set up to email me when each cron job runs, and this is what the above command returned:</p>
  
  <pre><code>--2012-07-03 18:15:01-- http://soteriabrighton.co.uk/wp-cron.php
  Resolving soteriabrighton.co.uk... 208.53.158.38
  Connecting to soteriabrighton.co.uk|208.53.158.38|:80... connected.
  HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
  Length: 0 [text/html]
  Saving to: `/dev/null'
  
  0K 0.00 =0s
  
  2012-07-03 18:15:04 (0.00 B/s) - `/dev/null' saved [0/0]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>To my untrained eye it looks like it worked OK, and yet no digests were sent out.</p>
  
  <p>Any help to get this fixed/with troubleshooting steps would be much appreciated.</p>