Disable plugin & hold settings ?

  • Resolved tdechangy

    (@tdechangy)


    5 years, 3 months ago

    Hi, this plugin is super useful.. BUT :

    What happens when I disable it ?

    I have no way to see it since I don’t use WP-CLI etc and I have no coding knowledge.

    The best way to use this plugin would be to change settings and then disable it once done. Avoiding to have “one more” active plugin. So is is designed that way ? If so, pls add this to the general description or FAQ boxes. And if not, could you make it work that way ?

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  • Plugin Author John Blackbourn

    (@johnbillion)

    WordPress Core Developer

    Good question.

    Regular cron events will continue to work because this is standard WP functionality and the WP Crontrol plugin is just an interface to these.

    PHP cron events will cease to work.

    Cron events that use a custom schedule that you’ve defined in WP Crontrol will likely run once more according to their schedule and then cease to work after that.

    I’ll have a look at writing up some documentation for this.

    I would like to point out that WP Crontrol is a lightweight plugin as it doesn’t handle running cron events, so it’s fine to leave it active, but I also appreciate that sometimes you can end up with dozens of plugins and want to remove some of them.

    Thread Starter tdechangy

    (@tdechangy)

    Thx.

    – I just didn’t understand well what I needed to know most..

    You said :

    Regular cron events will continue to work

    But my interest is about the regular cron jobs were modified in their schedules. For instance, if I changed a caching plugin from 5 min to 1 hour, and the disable WP crontrol, would my caching cron settings remain to 1 per hour ?

    I think that this is what most users need in first place.

    – As you said, Keeping things simple is essential, and explaining where to insert custom schedules near an export button would be even better to lighten the plugin collections ??

    Plugin Author John Blackbourn

    (@johnbillion)

    WordPress Core Developer

    Looks like I forgot to follow up with this.

    Yes if you’ve changed the schedule of an event from 5 mins to 1 hour then deactivate WP Crontrol, the event will continue to work as long as the “1 hour” schedule is not one that you’ve defined with WP Crontrol.

    Thread Starter tdechangy

    (@tdechangy)

    This is not so clear, did you mean :

    … if you’ve changed the schedule of an event from 5 mins to 1 hour (using Crontrol) then deactivate WP Crontrol, the event will continue to work with the 1 hour interval ?

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