How to Add a Custom Cron Interval in WordPress

Written by Jean Galea
Written by Jean Galea

For its cron functionality, WordPress has three defined intervals, but you can also add your own. Here's how to do it.

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For its cron functionality, WordPress has three defined intervals:

  • Hourly
  • Twicedaily
  • Daily

However, you can also create your own interval as follows (weekly as an example):

[php]
add_filter( ‘cron_schedules’, ‘cron_add_weekly’ );

function cron_add_weekly( $schedules ) {
// Adds once weekly to the existing schedules.
$schedules[‘weekly’] = array(
‘interval’ => 604800, // 60*60*24*7
‘display’ => __( ‘Once Weekly’ )
);
return $schedules;
}

[/php]

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Written by Jean Galea
Jean Galea is an investor, entrepreneur, and blogger. He is the founder of WP Mayor, the plugins WP RSS Aggregator and Spotlight, as well as the Mastermind.fm podcast. His personal blog can be found at jeangalea.com.

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