wp_get_schedules(): array

Retrieves supported event recurrence schedules.

Description

The default supported recurrences are ‘hourly’, ‘twicedaily’, ‘daily’, and ‘weekly’.
A plugin may add more by hooking into the ‘cron_schedules’ filter.
The filter accepts an array of arrays. The outer array has a key that is the name of the schedule, for example ‘monthly’. The value is an array with two keys, one is ‘interval’ and the other is ‘display’.

The ‘interval’ is a number in seconds of when the cron job should run.
So for ‘hourly’ the time is HOUR_IN_SECONDS (60 * 60 or 3600). For ‘monthly’, the value would be MONTH_IN_SECONDS (30 * 24 * 60 * 60 or 2592000).

The ‘display’ is the description. For the ‘monthly’ key, the ‘display’ would be __( 'Once Monthly' ).

For your plugin, you will be passed an array. You can add your schedule by doing the following:

// Filter parameter variable name is 'array'.
$array['monthly'] = array(
    'interval' => MONTH_IN_SECONDS,
    'display'  => __( 'Once Monthly' )
);

Return

array The array of cron schedules keyed by the schedule name.

...$0 array
Cron schedule information.
- interval int
  The schedule interval in seconds.
- display string
  The schedule display name.

More Information

Example Return Values:

Array
(
[hourly] => Array
(
[interval] => 3600
[display] => Once Hourly
)
[twicedaily] => Array
(
[interval] => 43200
[display] => Twice Daily
)
[daily] => Array
(
[interval] => 86400
[display] => Once Daily
)
)

Source

function wp_get_schedules() {
	$schedules = array(
		'hourly'     => array(
			'interval' => HOUR_IN_SECONDS,
			'display'  => __( 'Once Hourly' ),
		),
		'twicedaily' => array(
			'interval' => 12 * HOUR_IN_SECONDS,
			'display'  => __( 'Twice Daily' ),
		),
		'daily'      => array(
			'interval' => DAY_IN_SECONDS,
			'display'  => __( 'Once Daily' ),
		),
		'weekly'     => array(
			'interval' => WEEK_IN_SECONDS,
			'display'  => __( 'Once Weekly' ),
		),
	);

	/**
	 * Filters the non-default cron schedules.
	 *
	 * @since 2.1.0
	 *
	 * @param array $new_schedules {
	 *     An array of non-default cron schedules keyed by the schedule name. Default empty array.
	 *
	 *     @type array ...$0 {
	 *         Cron schedule information.
	 *
	 *         @type int    $interval The schedule interval in seconds.
	 *         @type string $display  The schedule display name.
	 *     }
	 * }
	 */
	return array_merge( apply_filters( 'cron_schedules', array() ), $schedules );
}

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Hooks

apply_filters( ‘cron_schedules’, array $new_schedules ): Filters the non-default cron schedules.

Uses	Description
__()`wp-includes/l10n.php`	Retrieves the translation of $text.
apply_filters()`wp-includes/plugin.php`	Calls the callback functions that have been added to a filter hook.

Used by	Description
_wp_cron()`wp-includes/cron.php`	Runs scheduled callbacks or spawns cron for all scheduled events.
WP_Site_Health::wp_schedule_test_init()`wp-admin/includes/class-wp-site-health.php`	Initiates the WP_Cron schedule test cases.
wp_schedule_event()`wp-includes/cron.php`	Schedules a recurring event.
wp_reschedule_event()`wp-includes/cron.php`	Reschedules a recurring event.

Changelog

Version	Description
5.4.0	The `'weekly'` schedule was added.
2.1.0	Introduced.

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Basic Example
The ‘display’ is the description. For the ‘weekly’ key, the ‘display’ would be
```
__( 'Once Weekly' );
```
For your plugin, you will be passed an array. You can easily add a new interval schedule by doing the following using the ‘cron_schedules’ filter.
```
 add_filter( 'cron_schedules', 'cron_add_weekly' );
 
 function cron_add_weekly( $schedules ) {
 	// Adds once weekly to the existing schedules.
 	$schedules['weekly'] = array(
 		'interval' => 604800,
 		'display' => __( 'Once Weekly' )
 	);
 	return $schedules;
 }
```
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