Using Cron to schedule events in WordPress

WordPress can schedule events. but how you create an event that will be executed once hourly, or daily, etc?

Just copy following code to your functions.php file:

if (!wp_next_scheduled('live_task_hook')) {
wp_schedule_event( time(), 'hourly', 'live_task_hook' );
}

add_action( 'live_task_hook', 'live_task_function' );

function live_task_function() {
wp_mail('you@yoursite.com', 'Automatic email', 'Hello, this is an automatically scheduled email from Live Experience.');
}

On line 1, we created an event, after verifying that an event of the same name wasn’t already registered.

All we have to do then is to create a function to do what you want (In this example, the function is called live_task_function() and it simply send a dummy email) and hook this function to any WordPress event.

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