A cron was first used in UNIX operating system to execute specific commands automatically on a specific time instead of executing them manually. In simple words “a cron is a time-based scheduler“.
A WordPress cron refers to “pseudo-cron system”, WordPres cron job is a scheduled job that runs on a given time automatically.
WordPress is known as the easiest and simplest solution to make your own website with a low cost or even free if you use their service. However, it’s also very powerful with plugins and themes being developed daily, this means that you can do anything with it such as creating a forum on WordPress. bbPress sounds like a good idea isn’t it? But no, we’re not going to name it in our list today because we found its alternatives.
WordPress is a flexible platform which provides developer to add extra functionality without changing the core of WordPress. To enhance the functionality of WordPress we need to write custom plugins. WordPress Plugins are just like add-ons, which uses the core functionality of WordPress and add custom functionality into it.
In this article, we will look at what are WordPress plugins and how we can create one.
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What would you do if your posts are outdated and need to be re-write or update? Of course you would go to the WordPress Dashboard then navigate to each post and do so, but that will be a waste of time though. To help you find a better solution we have found a WordPress plugin called Front-end Editor that allows you to edit WordPress posts right from the homepage. You do not have to go anywhere else.
Beside having related posts under each articles to keeps your visitors staying at your site longer, we could also use the next / previous navigation feature that were built right into the Genesis already. What it does is that it will have 2 text right next to each other but not that close though and under it will be your latest post and then the post before that. It could look something like this.