Joomla! 4 Masterclass

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Planning Operations with Scheduled Tasks

In the previous chapter, we explored Joomla’s multilanguage features, which allow you to manage a website in multiple languages with only one instance of the CMS. Now, we’ll look at one of the most recent functionalities added to the CMS: Scheduled Tasks.

After reading this chapter, you will be able to do the following:

• Understand how the Scheduled Tasks component works
• Know which type of tasks can be scheduled
• Create customized scheduled tasks

What is a Scheduled Task?

Websites often require repetitive actions to be executed, such as maintenance operations, ongoing optimizations, and processing queues regularly.

To handle these kinds of repetitive actions, over the years, webmasters used cron, a ...