Running a scheduled task in a Wordpress plugin

Question

I am trying to write a Wordpress plugin that automatically posts a blog post at a specific time of the day. For example, read a bunch of RSS feeds and post a daily digest of all new posts.

There are plugins that do something similar to what I want, but many of them rely on the cron job for automatic scheduling. I will do this if necessary, but I was hoping there was a better way. Getting a regular Wordpress user to add a cron job is not entirely friendly.

Is there a good way to schedule a task that runs from a Wordpress plugin? It should not start at exactly the right time.

Answer 1

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_schedule_event

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