wp_get_schedules()
Retrieve supported event recurrence schedules.
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Description
The default supported recurrences are ‘hourly’, ‘twicedaily’, ‘daily’, and ‘weekly’. A plugin may add more by hooking into the ‘cron_schedules’ filter. The filter accepts an array of arrays. The outer array has a key that is the name of the schedule, for example ‘monthly’. The value is an array with two keys, one is ‘interval’ and the other is ‘display’.
The ‘interval’ is a number in seconds of when the cron job should run. So for ‘hourly’ the time is HOUR_IN_SECONDS (60 60 or 3600). For ‘monthly’, the value would be MONTH_IN_SECONDS (30 24 60 60 or 2592000).
The ‘display’ is the description. For the ‘monthly’ key, the ‘display’ would be __( 'Once Monthly' ).
For your plugin, you will be passed an array. You can easily add your schedule by doing the following.
// Filter parameter variable name is 'array'.
$array['monthly'] = array(
'interval' => MONTH_IN_SECONDS,
'display' => __( 'Once Monthly' )
);Return
(array[])
More Information
Example Return Values:
Array
(
[hourly] => Array
(
[interval] => 3600
[display] => Once Hourly
)
[twicedaily] => Array
(
[interval] => 43200
[display] => Twice Daily
)
[daily] => Array
(
[interval] => 86400
[display] => Once Daily
)
)
Source
File: wp-includes/cron.php
function wp_get_schedules() {
$schedules = array(
'hourly' => array(
'interval' => HOUR_IN_SECONDS,
'display' => __( 'Once Hourly' ),
),
'twicedaily' => array(
'interval' => 12 * HOUR_IN_SECONDS,
'display' => __( 'Twice Daily' ),
),
'daily' => array(
'interval' => DAY_IN_SECONDS,
'display' => __( 'Once Daily' ),
),
'weekly' => array(
'interval' => WEEK_IN_SECONDS,
'display' => __( 'Once Weekly' ),
),
);
/**
* Filters the non-default cron schedules.
*
* @since 2.1.0
*
* @param array[] $new_schedules An array of non-default cron schedule arrays. Default empty.
*/
return array_merge( apply_filters( 'cron_schedules', array() ), $schedules );
}
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Changelog
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 5.4.0 | The 'weekly' schedule was added. |
| 2.1.0 | Introduced. |
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Basic Example
The ‘display’ is the description. For the ‘weekly’ key, the ‘display’ would be
For your plugin, you will be passed an array. You can easily add a new interval schedule by doing the following using the ‘cron_schedules’ filter.
add_filter( 'cron_schedules', 'cron_add_weekly' ); function cron_add_weekly( $schedules ) { // Adds once weekly to the existing schedules. $schedules['weekly'] = array( 'interval' => 604800, 'display' => __( 'Once Weekly' ) ); return $schedules; }