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WP Crontrol Hours

v2.1.0
by Tessa (they/them), AuRise Creative

Take control of your CRON jobs by restricting them to your website's low traffic hours.

60+ active installs Updated Dec 02, 2024 Tested to 6.7.2 Requires PHP 5.6.20
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WP Crontrol Hours

About WP Crontrol Hours

This plugin allows you to control when your recurring CRON jobs are triggered, by specifying a daily window and optionally limiting events to only run once a day or during off-hours. This can prevent maintenance tasks from running during high-traffic times and reduce stress on your server. If you have low website traffic and want to ensure that CRON events always run, you can use the Server CRON method or outsource the task to Cron-Job.org.

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Changelog

2.1.0 – November 9, 2023

  • Update: updated configuration to match other AuRise Creative plugins
  • Update: confirmed functionality for WordPress Core version 6.4
  • Feature: added additional resources in Plugin Support block on admin page (developer documentation, FAQ, and emergency website service)
  • Update: updated backend scripts to utilize defer strategy loading
  • Update: updated backend script to use wp_add_inline_script instead of wp_localize_script for AJAX URL.
  • Update: updated backend assets to use minified files when not debugging
  • Minor: updated JS files to use let and const instead of var
  • Minor: updated styles for admin page
  • Language: removed the languages folder and Domain Path in plugin to rely on Translating WordPress

2.0.0 – March 30, 2023

  • Feature: Added a “Restrict Frequent” setting that, when enabled, will restrict events that run multiple times a day to only run between the daily start and end times while maintaining their specified intervals.
  • UI: Updated the appearance of the settings page
  • UI: Added more information to the “Update Hours” tab and outputted information
  • Assets: Compressed the PNG images loaded on the backend

1.1.0 – November 9, 2022

  • Feature: Added a plugin setting to explicitly exclude hooks from being automatically updated
  • Feature: Added a status and fix link to the list of links on the plugin page between “Settings” and “Deactivate” to quickly navigate to those tabs from the plugins page
  • Fix: Updated the CRON event that is added when the plugin is activated to take place around midnight respective to the WordPress site’s timezone
  • Language: Added the /languages/ directory with the POT file to allow translations.

1.0.0 – November 3, 2022

  • Major: Submitted to WordPress.org repository!

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