{"name":"Hit An External Cron","slug":"hit-an-external-cron","version":"0.1","author":"Aaron Jorbin","author_profile":"https://profiles.wordpress.org/jorbin/","requires":"2.9.2","tested":"4.6.29","requires_php":false,"requires_plugins":[],"rating":0,"ratings":{"1":0,"2":0,"3":0,"4":0,"5":0},"num_ratings":0,"support_threads":0,"support_threads_resolved":0,"downloaded":3550,"last_updated":"2010-03-04 8:51pm GMT","added":"2010-03-04","homepage":"http://aaron.jorb.in/2010/wordpress-external-cron-plugin/","sections":{"description":"

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 with this plugin. It’s about as simple as plugins get, but should make your life a bit easier.

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Upload wordpress-hit-an-external-cron.php to the plugins directory
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Add the URL of the page you want to hit daily to the Settings > External Cron Settings screen
Drink a glass of scotch and be happy that your bad host is no longer an issue

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What kind of scotch should I drink in step 4

There is no perfect answer to this. As an everyday scotch, I think you can do much worse then the Highland Park 12.

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0.1

The initial version.
NEW FEATURE: A Menu
NEW FEATURE: A Readme file
NEw FEATURE: Hitting an external cron

\n"},"download_link":"https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/hit-an-external-cron.0.1.zip","screenshots":[],"tags":{"cron":"cron","external-scripts":"external scripts"},"versions":{"0.1":"https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/hit-an-external-cron.0.1.zip","trunk":"https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/hit-an-external-cron.zip"},"donate_link":"http://aaron.jorb.in/thank-you-aaron/","icons":{"default":"https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/hit-an-external-cron.svg"},"contributors":{"jorbin":"https://profiles.wordpress.org/jorbin/"}}

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