Summary

Ability for cron tasks to be written in a plugin.

Why is it needed?

Say you have a twitter or instagram feed plugin, it would be handy to add a cron task directly in the plugin to fetch the feed every x hours e.g. Also I think it will open up room for more enhanced plugins to be written.

Suggested solution(s)

Use the same naming convention as the normal cron in the plugin.

So you would add a file: /plugin-name/config/functions/cron.js.

see: https://github.com/strapi/strapi/issues/9437