Effortlessly define and manage cron jobs with execution URLs and WP shortcodes. The plugin monitors cron jobs, retries failed executions as needed, and sends status updates via email.
With « Cron Setup and Monitor – Get URL Cron » you can:
- Add, edit, and delete cron jobs to request HTTP URLs or WordPress shortcodes at defined times with various intervals.
- Verify the retrieved result by checking for a required string or JSON field to ensure the request was successful.
- Retry the HTTP URL or shortcode request multiple times in case of failures.
- Display all cron jobs in the WordPress installation, including those independent of this plugin.
- Manually execute cron jobs.
- Log requests and show OK or FAIL status in a database-backed log.
- Send emails for each cron job execution, including start attempt and result.
- Option to send emails only on failure.
- System Check page: verify PHP version, WordPress cron status, loopback requests, outgoing HTTP, and SSL support.
Usage
- Go to ‘Basic Settings’ in the plugin menu to set basic settings (e.g. e-mail address for status messages).
- Go to ‘Set CronJobs’ to manage cron events: set URL or WordPress shortcode, interval, start date, etc.
- Save the defined cron jobs.
- Manually execute a cron job by clicking « Execute Job ».
- Check plugin menu ‘Show CronJobs’: the scheduled cron jobs « geturlcron_event- » should be listed there.
- Check plugin menu ‘Show Logs’: completed jobs show OK or FAIL status.
- If an e-mail address is defined, e-mails are sent for each attempt and result.
