miunosoft

Michael Uno

<h4>Handle Massive Number of Actions</h4>
Do you have specific tasks which need to run at your desired time? Do you use WordPress as a proxy to generate data from external sources? As WordPress has evolved into a phase of application platforms, a more enhanced task management system needed to emerge.
Currently, with WP Cron, if you register a large number of actions, for example, 1000 tasks to run immediately and one of them stalls, it affects all the other actions preventing them from being loaded at the scheduled time. Also, the scheduled tasks won’t be triggered if there is no visitor on the site. The goal of this plugin is to resolve such issues and become the perfect solution for WordPress powered back-end application servers to provide full-brown API functionalities.
<h4>What it does</h4>
<ul>
<li>(optional) creates periodic background access to the site. </li>
<li>triggers tasks registered by the site owner at desired time or interval.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Built-in Actions</h4>
<ul>
<li>Delete Posts – performs bulk deletion of posts based on the post type, post statuses, taxonomy, and taxonomy terms.</li>
<li>Send Email – sends email to specified email addresses.</li>
<li>Clean Transients – deletes expired transients (caches).</li>
<li>Check Web Sites – accesses specified web pages and checks certain keywords.</li>
<li>Run PHP Scripts – runs PHP scripts of your choosing.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Custom Action Modules</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/auto-post/" rel="ugc">Auto Post</a> – creates posts automatically.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Extensible</h4>
This is designed to be fully extensible and developers can add custom modules including actions and occurrence types.
<h4>Create a Custom Action</h4>
You can run your custom action with Task Scheduler and run it at scheduled times, once a day, with a fixed interval, or whatever you set with the plugin.
Place the code that includes the module in your plugin or <code>functions.php</code> of the activated theme.
1. Decide your action slug which also serves as a WordPress filter hook.
Say, you pick <code>my_custom_action</code> as an action name.
2. Use the <code>add_filter()</code> WordPress core function to hook into the action.
<pre><code>/**
 * Called when the Task Scheduler plugin gets loaded.
 */
function doMyCustomAction( $isExitCode, $oRoutine ) {

 /**
 * Do you stuff here.
 */
 TaskScheduler_Debug::log( $oRoutine->getMeta() );
 return 1;

}
/**
 * Set the 'my_custom_action' custom action slug in the Select Action screen
 * via Dashboard -> Task Scheduler -> Add New Task.
 */
add_filter( 'my_custom_action', 'doMyCustomAction', 10, 2 );
</code></pre>
Please note that we use <code>add_filter()</code> not <code>add_action()</code> in order to return an exit code.
Return <code>1</code> if the task completes and <code>0</code> when there is a problem. You can pass any value except <code>null</code>.
3. Go to Dashboard -> Task Scheduler -> Add New Task. Proceed with the wizard and when you get the Select Action screen after setting up the occurrence, type my_custom_action, the one you defined in the above step.
The action slug set in the field will be triggered at the scheduled time.
It will be easier for you to modify an <a href="https://gist.github.com/michaeluno/5819636448947e7ab733" rel="nofollow ugc">existent code</a>. You can download the zip file and install it on your site.
<h4>Create a Custom Action Module</h4>
If you want your action to be listed in the Select Action screen, you need to create an action module.
To create an action module, you need to define a class by extending a base class that Task Scheduler prepares for you.
1. Define your custom action module class by extending the <code>TaskScheduler_Action_Base</code> class.
<pre><code>class TaskScheduler_SampleActionModule extends TaskScheduler_Action_Base {

 /**
 * The user constructor.
 * 
 * This method is automatically called at the end of the class constructor.
 */
 public function construct() {}

 /**
 * Returns the readable label of this action.
 * 
 * This will be called when displaying the action in an pull-down select option, task listing table, or notification email message.
 */
 public function getLabel( $sLabel ) { 
 return __( 'Sample Action Module', 'task-scheduler-sample-action-module' );
 }

 /**
 * Returns the description of the module.
 */
 public function getDescription( $sDescription ) {
 return __( 'This is a sample action module.', 'task-scheduler-sample-action-module' );
 } 

 /**
 * Defines the behaviour of the task action.
 * 
 */
 public function doAction( $isExitCode, $oRoutine ) {

 /**
 * Write your own code here! Delete the below log method. 
 * 
 * Good luck!
 */
 TaskScheduler_Debug::log( $oRoutine->getMeta() );

 // Exit code.
 return 1;

 }

}
</code></pre>
In the <code>doAction()</code> method of the above class, define the behaviour of your action what it does. The second parameter receives a routine object. The object has a public method named <code>getMeta()</code> which returns the associated arguments.
2. Use the <code>task_scheduler_action_after_loading_plugin</code> action hook to register your action module.
To register your action module, just instantiate the class you defined.
<pre><code>function loadTaskSchedulerSampleActionModule() {

 // Register a custom action module.
 include( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/module/TaskScheduler_SampleActionModule.php' );
 new TaskScheduler_SampleActionModule;

}
add_action( 'task_scheduler_action_after_loading_plugin', 'loadTaskSchedulerSampleActionModule' );
</code></pre>
3. Go to Dashboard -> Task Scheduler -> Add New Task. Proceed the wizard and when you get the Select Action screen, choose your action.
You can set your custom arguments in the Argument (optional) field if necessary.
The set values will be stored in the argument element of the array returned by the <code>getMeta()</code> public method of the routine object.
It will be easier for you to modify an existent module. Get an example action module which comes as a plugin from <a href="https://github.com/michaeluno/task-scheduler-sample-action-module" rel="nofollow ugc">this page</a>. Download and activate it on your test site. Then modify the code, especially the <code>doAction()</code> method which defines the behavior of the action.
<h4>Create Threads</h4>
When your routine is too heavy and gets hung often, you can create threads that performs sub-routines of the main routine.
1. Define your thread class the <code>TaskScheduler_Action_Base</code> class.
<pre><code>class TaskScheduler_SampleActionModule_Thread extends TaskScheduler_Action_Base {

 /**
 * Returns the readable label of this action.
 *
 * This will be called when displaying the action in an pull-down select option, task listing table, or notification email message.
 */
 public function getLabel( $sLabel ) {
 return __( 'Run a PHP Script', 'task-scheduler' );
 }

 /**
 * Defines the behavior of the task action.
 */
 public function doAction( $isExitCode, $oThread ) {

 // Do your stuff
 $_aThreadArguments = $oThread->getMeta();
 TaskScheduler_Debug::log( $_aThreadArguments );
 return 1;

 }
}
</code></pre>
2. Instantiate the thread class.
In the <code>construct()</code> method of your action module class introduced above that calls threads, instantiate the thread class by passing a custom action name. Here we pass <code>task_scheduler_my_thread</code> as an example.
<pre><code>class TaskScheduler_SampleActionModule extends TaskScheduler_Action_Base {

 public function construct() {
 new TaskScheduler_SampleActionModule_Thread( 'task_scheduler_my_thread' );
 }

 ...

}
</code></pre>
3. Create a thread.
In the <code>doAction()</code> method of your action module class, create a thread with the <code>createThread()</code> method. The parameters are:
<pre><code>createThread( $sThreadActionHookName, $oRoutine, array $aThreadOptions, array $aSystemTaxonomyTerms=array(), $bAllowDuplicate )

1. `$sThreadActionHookName` - (string, required) the slug that serves as an action hook name
2. `$oRoutine` - (object, required) the routine object that is passed to the second parameter of `doAction()`` method.
3. `$aThreadOptions` - (array, required) an associative array holding arguments to pass to the thread.
4. `$aSystemTaxonomyTerms` - (array, optional) an array holding taxonomy terms for the system the plugin provides. Default: `array()``.
5. `$bAllowDuplicate` - (boolean, optional) whether to allow threads to be created with same arguments. Default: `false`.
</code></pre>
Make sure the return value is <code>null</code> so that the routine will not close. Here we assume the <code>$_aData</code> variable holds lots of items so it must be processed separately by threads.
<pre><code>class TaskScheduler_SampleActionModule extends TaskScheduler_Action_Base {
 ...
 public function doAction( $isExitCode, $oRoutine ) {

 // Assuming this is big.
 $_aData = array(
 array( 'a', 'b', 'c' ),
 array( 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g' ),
 array( 'h', 'i' ),
 );

 foreach( $_aData as $_aDatum ) {
 $_aArguments = array(
 'datum' => $_aDatum,
 'foo' => 'bar',
 );
 $this->createThread( 'task_scheduler_my_thread', $oRoutine, $_aArguments );
 }

 // Do not close this routine by returning 'null'. When all the threads are done, this routine will be automatically closed.
 return null;

 }
 ...
}
</code></pre>
4. Process Passed Data from a Routine to a Thread. 
In the thread class, retrieve the passed data.
<pre><code>class TaskScheduler_SampleActionModule_Thread extends TaskScheduler_Action_Base {

 ...

 /**
 * Defines the behavior of the task action.
 */
 public function doAction( $isExitCode, $oThread ) {

 // Do your stuff
 $_aArguments = $oThread->getMeta();
 $_sFoo = $_aArguments[ 'foo' ]; // is 'bar'
 $_aDatum = $_aArguments[ 'datum' ]; // is either array( 'a', 'b', 'c' ), array( 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g' ), or array( 'h', 'i' )

 TaskScheduler_Debug::log( $_aArguments );
 return 1;

 }

}
</code></pre>
The entire code will look like this.
Action Module Class:
<pre><code>class TaskScheduler_SampleActionModule extends TaskScheduler_Action_Base {

 /**
 * The user constructor.
 *
 * This method is automatically called at the end of the class constructor.
 */
 public function construct() {
 new TaskScheduler_SampleActionModule_Thread( 'task_scheduler_my_thread' );
 }


 /**
 * Returns the readable label of this action.
 *
 * This will be called when displaying the action in an pull-down select option, task listing table, or notification email message.
 */
 public function getLabel( $sLabel ) {
 return __( 'Sample Action Module', 'task-scheduler-sample-action-module' );
 }

 /**
 * Returns the description of the module.
 */
 public function getDescription( $sDescription ) {
 return __( 'This is a sample action module.', 'task-scheduler-sample-action-module' );
 }

 public function doAction( $isExitCode, $oRoutine ) {

 // Assuming this is big.
 $_aData = array(
 array( 'a', 'b', 'c' ),
 array( 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g' ),
 array( 'h', 'i' ),
 );

 foreach( $_aData as $_aDatum ) {
 $_aArguments = array(
 'datum' => $_aDatum,
 'foo' => 'bar',
 );
 $this->createThread( 'task_scheduler_my_thread', $oRoutine, $_aArguments );
 }

 // Do not close this routine by returning 'null'. When all the threads are done, this routine will be automatically closed.
 return null;

 }

}
</code></pre>
Thread Class:
<pre><code>class TaskScheduler_SampleActionModule_Thread extends TaskScheduler_Action_Base {

 /**
 * Returns the readable label of this action.
 *
 * This will be called when displaying the action in an pull-down select option, task listing table, or notification email message.
 */
 public function getLabel( $sLabel ) {
 return __( 'Run a PHP Script', 'task-scheduler' );
 }

 /**
 * Defines the behavior of the task action.
 */
 public function doAction( $isExitCode, $oThread ) {

 // Do your stuff
 $_aArguments = $oThread->getMeta();
 $_sFoo = $_aArguments[ 'foo' ]; // is 'bar'
 $_aDatum = $_aArguments[ 'datum' ]; // is either array( 'a', 'b', 'c' ), array( 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g' ), or array( 'h', 'i' )

 TaskScheduler_Debug::log( $_aArguments );
 return 1;

 }

}
</code></pre>
Don’t forget to instantiate the action module class.
<pre><code>new TaskScheduler_SampleActionModule;
</code></pre>
<h4>Terminologies</h4>
<ul>
<li>Task – a rule which defines what kind of action routine to be performed at a specified time.</li>
<li>Routine – a main action routine created by a task. Depending on the action, it creates an action thread to divide its routine.</li>
<li>Thread – a divided action sub-sequential routine created by a routine. For example, The email action creates threads and sends emails per thread instead of sending them all in one routine to avoid exceeding the PHP’s maximum execution time.</li>
</ul>

Task Scheduler

Dylan James

Zephyr Project Manager is a modern, easy to use project manager for WordPress, to help manage all your projects and tasks effectively and get work done. It features a beautifully designed user interface to efficiently keep your projects on track. You can create unlimited projects, tasks and categories, start discussions on tasks and projects and upload files/attachments, manage files from the file manager page, view project progress using charts and use the built-in calendar, just to name a few features.
<h4>Core Features</h4>
<h4>Basic Version (Free)</h4>
Projects
<ul>
<li>Create unlimited projects and customize them to your preference</li>
<li>Set the name, start and end dates, description and category for your project</li>
<li>Set the priority for your projects to manage them even more effectively</li>
<li>Ability to copy projects and convert projects to tasks</li>
<li>Recieve notifications via email of updates and completion</li>
<li>Keep everyone informed via the discussion panel, where you can send attachments and messages and the team can respond and view the messages</li>
<li>View progress chart of project completion and see progress at a glance</li>
<li>Export and import projects to CSV and JSON</li>
</ul>
Tasks
<ul>
<li>Create, view, edit and customize as many tasks as you want to</li>
<li>Set the name, start and end dates, description, project and assignee for your task</li>
<li>Assign tasks to users or teams</li>
<li>Set the priority for your task to manage them even more effectively</li>
<li>Mark tasks as complete/incomplete easily and open an overview of the task by clicking on them</li>
<li>Create subtasks to break tasks down even more and make tasks even more descriptive and easy to complete</li>
<li>Start discussions with other team memeber about the tasks, ask questions, and add attachments</li>
<li>Copy tasks and convert tasks to projects</li>
<li>Export and import tasks to and from CSV and JSON</li>
</ul>
Android App
<ul>
<li>Download the official Android App now to manage your tasks and projects on the go. The app completely syncs with your website data and provides real time notifications to keep you in the loop</li>
</ul>
Personal Dashboards
<ul>
<li>Each user has their own personal dashboards where they can see projects and tasks completed, their upcoming tasks and more from just a glance.</li>
</ul>
Discussions & Attachments
<ul>
<li>Start discussions on projects or tasks and chat with other members on the progress of tasks</li>
<li>Upload, download and view attachments straight to and from your tasks and projects</li>
</ul>
Email Notifications
<ul>
<li>Recieve email updates on overdue tasks</li>
<li>Receive weekly updates</li>
<li>Receive updates on activity such as completed tasks, deleted tasks etc.</li>
<li>Set your notification preferences and choose which notifications you would like to use</li>
</ul>
File Manager
<ul>
<li>Upload files to tasks and projects and add comments to communicate with other members</li>
<li>View all project and task files/attachments in one place and easily manage them</li>
<li>Download, view info and delete files from the file manager, easily and effectively</li>
</ul>
Categories
<ul>
<li>Create unlimited categories to keep your projects organized</li>
<li>Set the category name description and color to make your projects unique</li>
<li>Set the category of your projects and assign multiple categories as well</li>
</ul>
Calendar
<ul>
<li>View all your completed and upcoming tasks in the calendar for an easy overview</li>
<li>Easily see the work and time required to complete tasks and navigate effectively with the calender</li>
<li>Set your own custom date format</li>
</ul>
Progress
<ul>
<li>Create automatic progress charts for your projects and print them</li>
<li>View progress charts for each project and set the status of projects</li>
<li>Receive emails on project progress</li>
<li>See the progress of projects, including completed tasks, pending tasks and more from the project list, for a comprehensive overview</li>
</ul>
Teams & Members
<ul>
<li>View and manage all the members and teams in one place</li>
<li>View team members progress and their work done from a single page</li>
<li>Create teams and assign users to your teams</li>
<li>Assign tasks to individual members or teams</li>
</ul>
Customization
<ul>
<li>Zephyr Project Manager is highly customizable</li>
<li>Set your profile details such as your custom name, profile picture, description, email notifications and more</li>
<li>Change the colors used by the plugin to customize the interface to your preference</li>
<li>Manage user capabilities and more</li>
<li>I am always happy to take on customization requests if you contact me at dylanjkotze@gmail.com 🙂</li>
</ul>
Fully Translatable and Localized
<ul>
<li>Zephyr has been fully localized to be easily translated into any language</li>
</ul>
<h4>Professional Edition</h4>
<ul>
<li>Customizable Frontend Project Manager page</li>
<li>Kanban board style projects</li>
<li>Asana Integration</li>
<li>Custom Fields</li>
<li>Custom Task Templates</li>
<li>Custom Project Templates</li>
<li>Reporting & Statistics</li>
<li>And more…</li>
<li><a href="https://zephyr-one.com/purchase-pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Get the Pro Edition Now</a></li>
</ul>
New Features Coming Soon: 
* WooCommerce Integration 
* Majorly improved Basic and Pro version with lots of new features and improvements 
* Editable email templates and more
For more information and documentation, please visit <a href="https://zephyr-one.com" rel="nofollow ugc">the website</a>
<h3>Feature Requests</h3>
I am always looking to improve the plugin and add more useful features. If there are any features you feel may be missing or if you have any feedback, please feel free to contact me and I will be happy to add them

Zephyr Project Manager


Very pleased with the plugin, I recommend it to everyone. There are issues of course with the fact that when the super admin sets the task admin, but this is a conditionality, I hope the author of the plugin will provide for this option


Nice plugin

Zephyr Project Manager is a modern, easy to use sophisticated project manager for WordPress.

Task Scheduler vs Zephyr Project Manager