{"id":8271,"date":"2010-03-04T19:42:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T19:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins-wp\/hit-an-external-cron\/"},"modified":"2010-03-04T20:51:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T20:51:27","slug":"hit-an-external-cron","status":"publish","type":"plugin","link":"https:\/\/szl.wordpress.org\/plugins\/hit-an-external-cron\/","author":2738372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","version":"0.1","stable_tag":"0.1","tested":"4.6.30","requires":"2.9.2","requires_php":"","requires_plugins":"","header_name":"Hit an External Cron","header_author":"Aaron Jorbin","header_description":"","assets_banners_color":"","last_updated":"2010-03-04 20:51:27","external_support_url":"","external_repository_url":"","donate_link":"http:\/\/aaron.jorb.in\/thank-you-aaron\/","header_plugin_uri":"http:\/\/aaron.jorb.in\/2010\/wordpress-external-cron-plugin\/","header_author_uri":"http:\/\/aaron.jorb.in\/","rating":0,"author_block_rating":0,"active_installs":10,"downloads":4002,"num_ratings":0,"support_threads":0,"support_threads_resolved":0,"author_block_count":0,"sections":["description","installation","faq","changelog"],"tags":[],"upgrade_notice":{"0.1":"

You want to use this plugin. It's the initial version, what do you expect?<\/p>"},"ratings":{"1":0,"2":0,"3":0,"4":0,"5":0},"assets_icons":[],"assets_banners":[],"assets_blueprints":{},"all_blocks":[],"tagged_versions":["0.1"],"block_files":[],"assets_screenshots":[],"screenshots":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"plugin_section":[],"plugin_tags":[4567,34815],"plugin_category":[59],"plugin_contributors":[89520],"plugin_business_model":[],"class_list":["post-8271","plugin","type-plugin","status-publish","hentry","plugin_tags-cron","plugin_tags-external-scripts","plugin_category-utilities-and-tools","plugin_contributors-jorbin","plugin_committers-jorbin"],"banners":[],"icons":{"svg":false,"icon":"https:\/\/s.w.org\/plugins\/geopattern-icon\/hit-an-external-cron.svg","icon_2x":false,"generated":true},"screenshots":[],"raw_content":"\n

Some hosts suck. They don't include basic things like cron that plenty of scripts need. Luckily for us, we can mimic wget http:\/\/example.com<\/code> with this plugin. It's about as simple as plugins get, but should make your life a bit easier.<\/p>\n\n\n

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  1. Upload wordpress-hit-an-external-cron.php<\/code> to the plugins<\/code> directory<\/li>\n
  2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress<\/li>\n
  3. Add the URL of the page you want to hit daily to the Settings > External Cron Settings screen<\/li>\n
  4. Drink a glass of scotch and be happy that your bad host is no longer an issue<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n
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    What kind of scotch should I drink in step 4<\/dt>\n

    There is no perfect answer to this. As an everyday scotch, I think you can do much worse then the Highland Park 12.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n\n

    0.1<\/h4>\n\n
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    • The initial version.<\/li>\n
    • NEW FEATURE: A Menu<\/li>\n
    • NEW FEATURE: A Readme file<\/li>\n
    • NEw FEATURE: Hitting an external cron<\/li>\n<\/ul>","raw_excerpt":"Use wordpress's internal cron system to hit an external cron on a daily basis","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/szl.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin\/8271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/szl.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/szl.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/plugin"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/szl.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8271"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/szl.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/jorbin"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/szl.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"plugin_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/szl.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_section?post=8271"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/szl.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_tags?post=8271"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/szl.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_category?post=8271"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/szl.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_contributors?post=8271"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_business_model","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/szl.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_business_model?post=8271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}