WP Minions archived

WP Minions Provides a framework for using job queues with WordPress for asynchronous task running. Provides an integration with Gearman and RabbitMQ out of the box. [!CAUTION] As of 12 April 2024, this project is archived and no longer being actively maintained. Background & Purpose As WordPress becomes a more popular publishing platform for increasingly large publishers, with complex workflows, the need for increasingly complex and resource-intensive tasks has only increased. Things like generating reports, expensive API calls, syncing users to mail providers, or even ingesting content from feeds all take a lot of time or a lot of memory (or both), and commonly can't finish within common limitations of web servers, because things like timeouts and memory limits get in the way. WP Minions provides a few helper functions that allow you to add tasks to a queue, and specify an action that should be called to trigger the task, just hook a callback into the action using During configuration, a number of minions (workers) are specified. As minions are free, they will take the next task from the queue, call the action, and any callbacks hooked into the action will be run.