Hi guys,
I am not aware of any existing plugins that support such features in a generic way, meaning that you are not tied to some predefined scenarios.
As it seems, if you are using WordPress as a non coder (through plugins only) and if there is no tailored plugin for that, you’ll need someone to code such features. It might be something completely simple, like finding the record in a custom table and updating a field in it, but still, it has to be coded and deployed as a theme or plugin and that’s not what you like to do.
We have a no-code plugin for creating Alexa skills and other conversational services in WordPress, but as it has a really powerful component mechanism, there are a couple of more, non related things it could be capable of doing, like those two mentioned in the title.
With it you could be able to register API routes and visually define what should happen and what kind of response it should return. It has components for accessing the database (both custom tables and post types), making http requests, control structures (if, else, loop, goto, include), send email, work with variables and you can even call WP and PHP functions on them. In the end, sort of visual programming.
Same thing for scheduled tasks. Create a task, set an interval for it and define workflow through drag’n drop interface.
I remember one project where we didn’t have FTP access nor to the database and I had to check how exactly one another plugin was saving data. I used our DB components to locate data, tested locally, imported a workflow to the server and executed it through our chat interface. Completely non-invasive and done in no time.
I’m wondering if there is an interest for such a solution and which case you need more often (custom REST or scheduled tasks)?
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