Standard recurrence values are ‘hourly’, ‘daily’ and ‘twicedaily’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\/\/******************************************************************************\n\/\/******************************************************************************\n\/\/********** REGISTER \/ DE-REGISTER OUR CRON FUNCTIONS WITH WORDPRESS **********\n\/\/******************************************************************************\n\/\/******************************************************************************\n\/\/***** ACTIVATE *****\nfunction my_cron_events_activate() {\n\n \/\/Deactive first to ensure there won't be repeated events\n my_cron_events_deactivate();\n\n $Result = wp_schedule_event( time(), 'hourly', 'my_cron_main_event' ); \/\/<<<Namespace only needed if outside of the current namespace\n\n\n\n \/*\n if (is_wp_error($Result))\n echo \"wp_schedule_event error: \" . $Result->get_error_message();\n else if ($Result === True)\n echo \"wp_schedule_event success\";\n else\n echo \"wp_schedule_event something went wrong\";\n *\/\n}\n\n\/\/***** DEACTIVATE *****\nfunction my_cron_events_deactivate() {\n wp_clear_scheduled_hook('my_cron_main_event');\n\n \/\/<<<Namespace only needed if outside of the current namespace\n\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nUsing your own recurrence values<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
If you want something different from the standard recurrence values you can add the below to define them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n \/\/Using in your activate function:\n $Result = wp_schedule_event( time(), '5min', 'my_cron_main_event' );\n\n\n\n\/\/*************************************************\n\/\/***** CREATE OUR OWN CUSTOM SCHEDULE VALUES *****\n\/\/*************************************************\nadd_filter('cron_schedules','my_cron_schedules'); \/\/<<<Change my_cron_schedules to a unique name (can't be shared by plugins or themes).\n\/\/add_filter('cron_schedules','\\MyNamespaceName\\my_cron_schedules');\nfunction my_cron_schedules($schedules)\n{\n \/\/Add our custom schedule times here (1 or more)\n if(!isset($schedules[\"5min\"]))\n {\n $schedules[\"5min\"] = array(\n 'interval' => 5*60,\n 'display' => __('Once every 5 minutes'));\n }\n \n \/*\n if(!isset($schedules[\"30min\"]))\n {\n $schedules[\"30min\"] = array(\n 'interval' => 30*60,\n 'display' => __('Once every 30 minutes'));\n }\n *\/\n \n return $schedules;\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nConfiguring WordPress to use your setup<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Run this once to setup with the new configuration<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\/\/Recreate all events\n my_cron_events_activate();\n\n\n\n \/\/Delete all events\n my_cron_events_deactivate();<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nUsing with a plugin<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Use the wp_schedule_event() with your plugin activation hook register_activation_hook().<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ensure you also use your plugins register_deactivation_hook() to clear the scheduled event as deactivating a plugin doesn’t do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Add a cron schedule task to your server to call the wp cron<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\/\/ *\/5 * * * * wget -q -O - https:\/\/mydomainame.uk\/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nYour cron function<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\/\/***********************************\n\/\/***********************************\n\/\/********** CRON FUNCTION **********\n\/\/***********************************\n\/\/***********************************\nadd_action( 'my_cron_main_event', 'my_cron_main_event' ); \/\/<<<Change my_cron_main_event to a unique action name (can't be shared by plugins or themes).\n\/\/add_action( 'my_cron_main_event', '\\MyNamespaceName\\my_cron_main_event' );\nfunction my_cron_main_event()\n{\n\n\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nTesting \/ Debugging<\/h4>\n\n\n\nRun just your cron fucntion from code<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Your cron function is created as an action, so you can trigger it to run from your own code using <\/p>\n\n\n\n
do_action( 'my_cron_main_event' );<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nRun all wp cron functions<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
You can do this from a browser using:
https:\/\/mydomainname.com\/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Remember though that wp will only trigger your function at the time interval you set for it, regardless of how often you trigger it<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Setting Up cron within wordpress Using standard recurrence values Standard recurrence values are ‘hourly’, ‘daily’ and ‘twicedaily’. Using your own recurrence values If you want something different from the standard recurrence values you can add the below to define them: Configuring WordPress to use your setup Run this once to setup with the new configuration […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cron-scheduled-tasks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2807"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3838,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions\/3838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}