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How do I create a scheduler in WordPress?
Under the ‘Status & Visibility’ panel, you need to click on the ‘Immediately’ link next to ‘Publish’ option. This will show you a date and time picker. You can select the date and time when you want to publish this post. You can select a future date and time to schedule your article in WordPress.
What is doing WP Cron?
WP-Cron executes specific tasks for WordPress powered sites. The name Cron comes from the Unix system for scheduling jobs, ranging from once a minute to once a year. Whether it’s routine maintenance or scheduled alerts, any command that can be executed on Unix without user intervention can be scheduled as a Cron task.
When to call WP _ schedule _ event in WordPress?
By default WordPress expects the values hourly, twicedaily or daily. As we’ll show off in just a bit, you can make a wp_schedule_event registered events run on a different schedule than those three, but those are the most common by far. $hook will be the (name of the) function you want WordPress to call when your event runs.
When to use WP _ clear _ schedule _ hook?
As you might have guessed, wp_clear_schedule_hook will just un-register the $hook or “task name” you’ve scheduled with a call to wp_schedule_event. Let’s say your website gets the least traffic at 3am. And so you want your backups not when the plugin is initially activated, but at a specific time.
How to schedule WP Cron events in WordPress?
WordPress provides a convenient function called wp_next_scheduled() to check if a particular hook is already scheduled. wp_next_scheduled() takes one parameter, the name of the hook. It will return either a string containing the timestamp of the next execution or false, signifying the task is not scheduled.
What is the name of the hook function in WordPress?
$hook will be the (name of the) function you want WordPress to call when your event runs. This is a string like ‘updraft_backup’ where your function is called updraft_backup. $args is any argument (s) that your $hook function will need to see when called.