Automattic

Claudio Sanches

Ron Rennick

royho

prettyboymp

Barry

Jorge A. Torres

Peter Fabian

sadowski

Vedanshu - Urumi.AI

Néstor Soriano Vilchez

Julia Amosova

obliviousharmony

ovidiul

Corey McKrill

crstauf

<p>Action Scheduler is a scalable, traceable job queue for background processing large sets of actions in WordPress. It’s specially designed to be distributed in WordPress plugins.</p>
<p>Action Scheduler works by triggering an action hook to run at some time in the future. Each hook can be scheduled with unique data, to allow callbacks to perform operations on that data. The hook can also be scheduled to run on one or more occasions.</p>
<p>Think of it like an extension to <code>do_action()</code> which adds the ability to delay and repeat a hook.</p>
<h3>Battle-Tested Background Processing</h3>
<p>Every month, Action Scheduler processes millions of payments for <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-subscriptions/" rel="nofollow ugc">Subscriptions</a>, webhooks for <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/" rel="ugc">WooCommerce</a>, as well as emails and other events for a range of other plugins.</p>
<p>It’s been seen on live sites processing queues in excess of 50,000 jobs and doing resource intensive operations, like processing payments and creating orders, at a sustained rate of over 10,000 / hour without negatively impacting normal site operations.</p>
<p>This is all on infrastructure and WordPress sites outside the control of the plugin author.</p>
<p>If your plugin needs background processing, especially of large sets of tasks, Action Scheduler can help.</p>
<h3>Learn More</h3>
<p>To learn more about how Action Scheduler works, and how to use it in your plugin, check out the docs on <a href="https://actionscheduler.org" rel="nofollow ugc">ActionScheduler.org</a>.</p>
<p>There you will find:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://actionscheduler.org/usage/" rel="nofollow ugc">Usage guide</a>: instructions on installing and using Action Scheduler</li>
<li><a href="https://actionscheduler.org/wp-cli/" rel="nofollow ugc">WP CLI guide</a>: instructions on running Action Scheduler at scale via WP CLI</li>
<li><a href="https://actionscheduler.org/api/" rel="nofollow ugc">API Reference</a>: complete reference guide for all API functions</li>
<li><a href="https://actionscheduler.org/admin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Administration Guide</a>: guide to managing scheduled actions via the administration screen</li>
<li><a href="https://actionscheduler.org/perf/" rel="nofollow ugc">Guide to Background Processing at Scale</a>: instructions for running Action Scheduler at scale via the default WP Cron queue runner</li>
</ul>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>Action Scheduler is developed and maintained by <a href="http://automattic.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Automattic</a> with significant early development completed by <a href="https://flightless.us/" rel="nofollow ugc">Flightless</a>.</p>
<p>Collaboration is cool. We’d love to work with you to improve Action Scheduler. <a href="https://github.com/woocommerce/action-scheduler/pulls" rel="nofollow ugc">Pull Requests</a> welcome.</p>


Action Scheduler

Great to have this functonality in a plugin

Looks like good and useful

How Action Scheduler only has two reviews is beyond me, though I guess I more typically use it as a library within whatever I'm developing rather than as an actual plugin. 

Regardless, Action Scheduler is awesome and an absolutely vital contribution to the WordPress community. It's really the only good way to reliably get intensive, bulk recurring actions happening with useful reporting on if scheduled events are happening and such. WAY better than trying to leverage WP's native "wp-cron" task scheduling system.

Documentation is good too. What more could you ask?

Should be in core


Developers refuse to support their own plugin.  I have no use for something that does not work, and something the developers will not support.



Cannot and will not recommend to anyone... sadly will not make much of a difference because it's in use in every site that utilizes WooCommerce, but, whatever...


Refuses to Support


A must-use if you want to schedule any type of task, no more wp_schedule headaches.


Great time savior plugin

Action Scheduler - Job Queue for WordPress

hwinote

<p>Hwinote ROP Scheduler helps administrators manage scheduled refreshes for older WordPress posts.</p>
<p>The plugin allows you to enable automatic refreshes for individual posts, define update intervals in days, limit the number of posts updated per day, and manage update statuses from a dedicated administration screen.</p>
<p>The plugin updates the post modified date. It does not modify post content.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Enable or disable automatic refreshes on a per-post basis.</li>
<li>Configure update intervals in days for individual posts.</li>
<li>Limit the number of posts updated per day.</li>
<li>Bulk manage update statuses: Active, Paused, or Fixed Date.</li>
<li>Manually update individual posts from the administration screen.</li>
<li>Display a confirmation warning before manually updating a Paused post.</li>
<li>Run the scheduler manually when required.</li>
<li>Display Cron status details in a collapsible panel, including the latest result, updated post count, run type, and next scheduled run.</li>
<li>Support public custom post types, excluding media attachments.</li>
<li>Reset Update History to restore a post to its default update state.</li>
<li>Translation-ready using the <code>hwinote-rop-scheduler</code> text domain.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Update Statuses</h3>
<ul>
<li>Active – Included in automatic update processing.</li>
<li>Paused – Excluded from automatic update processing. Manual updates remain available after confirmation.</li>
<li>Fixed Date – Managed separately from the standard automatic update cycle.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Reset Update History</h3>
<p>Reset Update History removes the custom update status and restores the post modified date to the original publication date.</p>
<p>After resetting, the post returns to its default automatic update behavior.</p>
<p>The WordPress.org version does not require a license key, registration, or external activation.</p>
<h3>Related Links</h3>
<ul>
<li>Japanese Introduction<br />
https://hwinotes.com/rop-scheduler/</li>
</ul>


Hwinote ROP Scheduler

Automatically refresh older posts based on configurable intervals and a daily update limit.

Action Scheduler vs Hwinote ROP Scheduler