Cron Setup and Monitor – Get URL Cron Plugin

Effortlessly define and manage cron jobs with execution URLs and WP-Shortcodes. The plugin monitors cron jobs, retries failed executions as needed, and sends status updates via email.

With “Cron Setup and Monitor – Get URL Cron” you can:
* Add, edit, and delete cron jobs to request HTTP URLs or WordPress shortcodes at defined times with various intervals.
* Verify the retrieved result by checking for a required string or JSON field to ensure the HTTP URL or shortcode request was successful.
* Retry the HTTP URL or shortcode request multiple times in case of failures.
* Display all cron jobs in the WordPress installation, including those independent of this plugin.
* Manually execute cron jobs.
* Log requests and show OK or FAIL status: The first log entry records what should happen (“try”). The second log entry shows the success of the request.
* Send emails for each HTTP URL or shortcode request, including the start of the attempt and the result of the request.
* Option to send emails only on failure.

Usage

1. Go to ‘Basic Settings’ in the plugin menu to set basic settings (like E-Mailadress for Statusmessages)
2. Go to ‘Set CronJobs’ to manage the cron events: Set URL or WordPress-Shortcode, interval, startdate etc.
3. Store the defined CronJobs
4. Manually execute a Cronjob by clicking on “execute job”
5. Check plugin-menu ‘Show CronJobs’: There the scheduled CronJobs “geturlcron_event-” should be listed
6. Check plugin-menu ‘Show Logs’: There should be at least one entry for the “try”. And if the CronJob has been finished a entry for the result (“FAIL” or “OK”)
7. If a E-Mailadress is defined, two E-Mails are sent for trying and result.

Basis installation: For detailed installation instructions, please read the standard installation procedure for WordPress plugins.

Configure “Cron Setup and Monitor – Get URL Cron”: Select “Basic Settings” and set E-Mailadress for Statusmessages, Timeout for the http-URL- / Shortcode-requests and the expiration time of logfile-entries. Then define a cron job.

1. 

   New cron events can be added, modified, deleted, and executed. Plus: Setup for monitoring.

2. 

   Overview of all running Cronjobs

3. 

   Basic settings for E-Mail-Notification, Timeout. Logfile and uninstall

4. 

   Logfile: See what's going on - try and success / failure

1.5.0

• Rename Plugin to “Cron Setup and Monitor – Get URL Cron”
• OK with WordPress 6.6
• PluginCheckPlugin-Status: No Errors
• CHANGED – Display of Time: In the backend, the UTC Unix timestamp is always used. In the frontend, the timezone settings of WordPress are now used. Keep this in mind when viewing the execution times!
• Added Feature: Option to send emails only for failed cronjobs
• Improved: Log-Evaluation – see latest executed Cronjobs and their Status
• Improved: Design of backend with Logs, Setup etc.

1.4.8

• Fixed security issue: Rio D. discovered a security issue. Thank you Rio! For utilize this you need WordPress-Backend-Access and the affected Page is in the WordPress-Adminarea only. Nevertheless: Update your JCI-Plugin, please!

1.4.7

• Improved display of CronJobs
• PHP8.1 fixes
• Minor Bugfixes

1.4.6

• Display current Servertime on several pages
• Set DISABLE_WP_CRON to false if not set before
• Minor Preparations for PHP8-usage

1.4.5

• Bugfix: Translation settings
• Minor Improvement if no Cronjob is defined

1.4.4

• Plugin ok for Translations: POT-File available, MO-File for German included
• Set Cronjob, startdate: Placeholder shows current servertime
• Set Cronjob, interval: Additional intervals 5, 10 15 minutes and option “disable”
• Bugfix: Chronological Sorting of Logfiles
• Plugin is ok with WP 5.8.3

1.4.3

• Bugfix: More than 15 Cronjobs now really possible…
• Plugin is ok with WP 5.8.2

1.4.2

• Minor Bugfix: No more “PHP Notice”-Messages at Logfile-Display
• Plugin is ok with WP 5.8

1.4.1

• “Basic Settings”: You can increase the no of cronjobs 15+n
• Plugin is ok with WP 5.7.1

1.4

• Bugfix displaying next execution time
• Plugin is ok with WP 5.6

1.3

• Plugin is ok with WP 5.4. and PHP 7.4

1.2

Cronjob-Wordpress-Shortcode: Insert Shortcodes which will be executed

1.1

Relative Cronjob-URL: If a Cronjob-URL starts with “/” the domain is added (“home_url()”)

1.0

Initial release on WordPress.org. Any comments and feature-requests are welcome!