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SKC 🏳️‍🌈skc
Jan 25, 2026, 8:25 PM
I feel like someone smart like @ross or @alex@www.alexstandiford.com or maybe someone else had a library that let you run a long running process with progress indicators.
I'm trying to find something like https://github.com/deliciousbrains/wp-background-processing or https://github.com/woocommerce/action-scheduler/ but kicked off by a UI (via AJAX request) with a UI showing progress and/or when it's done.
Use-case: Trigger a one-time action and poll / show progress until it's complete. Like run an upgrade script for a plugin or process a batch of data.
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Ross Wintleross@crikey.social
Jan 25, 2026, 8:28 PM
@skc We do that in some of our products. But we don't have a complete end-to-end library that does the background job(s), progress indicator and API to connect them.
And I don't know of one.
Sorry!
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SKC 🏳️‍🌈skc
Jan 25, 2026, 8:31 PM
@ross I'm going to keep digging, I swear I saw something. Maybe I'll just roll something custom but was hoping I could find something I could implement for Pods too
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Alexalex@standiford.us
Jan 25, 2026, 9:10 PM
@skc
I don’t have the UI part down, but I solved this using Action scheduler. It’s become my go to for this stuff. Relatively safe to include as a dependency, reliable as can be.
My projects are leveraging PHPNomad’s Tasks library, but I don’t think that really helps you if you’re not in that ecosystem. (It just uses action scheduler anyway)
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SKC 🏳️‍🌈skc
Jan 25, 2026, 9:51 PM
@alex@www.alexstandiford.com @skc phpnomad task stuff was maybe what I remembered. I didn’t know much about it.
Right now I’m going to go with action scheduler and build a custom API to poll for status and progress.
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Brandon Kraft ❤️‍🔥🧡kraft@religious.social
Jan 26, 2026, 12:20 AM
@skc that would be a good addition to action scheduler (APIs for progress indication). Would be curious to take a gander if what you're working on is able to be public.
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SKC 🏳️‍🌈skc
Jan 26, 2026, 1:15 AM
@kraft will see if I can tackle this in a more abstracted way. I need it for Pods and I need it for a private project too.
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