faking cron jobs for sparklines
I did search for a fake cron job plugin of course (I wouldn’t want to reinvent the wheel). But the only one I could find does not make a difference between bots and humans. If that doesn’t matter for you the plugin is worth a look (it also comes with a couple of plugins that make use of it). But for me this simply doesn’t cut it. So I reinvented the wheel, only mine has less spokes but shinier hubcap.
The reason I needed the cron job is the sparkline to the right here: ‘unique vs bots’. It shows you how many of you visitors are not human (which is quite a lot… scary huh). The image is updated every hour. In due time I will also release this sparkline widget but it still needs a lot of work.