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I figured out the following: there is an option in wp-option table. The option name is very “suggestive” :) cron. The value is

like this:

a:8:{i:1303218061;a:1:{s:19:"wp_scheduled_delete";a:1:{s:32:"40cd750bba9870f18aada2478b24840a";
a:3:{s:8:"schedule";s:5:"daily";s:4:"args";a:0:{}s:8:"interval";i:86400;}}}i:1303218983;a:1:
{s:24:"akismet_scheduled_delete";a:1:{s:32:"40cd750bba9870f18aada2478b24840a";a:3:{s:8:"schedule";
s:5:"daily";s:4:"args";a:0:{}s:8:"interval";i:86400;}}}i:1303220910;a:1:{s:8:"do_pings";a:1:{s:32:
"40cd750bba9870f18aada2478b24840a";a:2:{s:8:"schedule";b:0;s:4:"args";a:0:{}}}}i:1303221103;a:1:
{s:11:"wp_cache_gc";a:1:{s:32:"40cd750bba9870f18aada2478b24840a";a:2:{s:8:"schedule";b:0;s:4:"args";
a:0:{}}}}i:1303231010;a:3:{s:16:"wp_version_check";a:1:{s:32:"40cd750bba9870f18aada2478b24840a";a:3:
{s:8:"schedule";s:10:"twicedaily";s:4:"args";a:0:{}s:8:"interval";i:43200;}}s:17:"wp_update_plugins";
a:1:{s:32:"40cd750bba9870f18aada2478b24840a";a:3:{s:8:"schedule";s:10:"twicedaily";s:4:"args";a:0:
{}s:8:"interval";i:43200;}}s:16:"wp_update_themes";a:1:{s:32:"40cd750bba9870f18aada2478b24840a";a:3:
{s:8:"schedule";s:10:"twicedaily";s:4:"args";a:0:{}s:8:"interval";i:43200;}}}i:1303418027;a:1:{s:23:
"dbmanager_cron_optimize";a:1:{s:32:"40cd750bba9870f18aada2478b24840a";a:3:{s:8:"schedule";s:18:
"dbmanager_optimize";s:4:"args";a:0:{}s:8:"interval";i:259200;}}}i:1303763627;a:1:{s:21:
"dbmanager_cron_backup";a:1:{s:32:"40cd750bba9870f18aada2478b24840a";a:3:{s:8:"schedule";s:16:
"dbmanager_backup";s:4:"args";a:0:{}s:8:"interval";i:604800;}}}s:7:"version";i:2;}

now, this is fine, nice, whatever, but I needed something more “readable” right… I am just a person, not some freaky computer who reads this kind of  gibberish…For this I installed “Crony Cronjob Manager” and with this I was able to see the following:

this is the “translation” of the “gibberish” from above, and as you can see, there are a few things scheduled there.

Now I like to have my plugins updated. I do update them once in a while, but checking 2 times a day for updated plugins???? This is CRAZY. In my opinion this should run somewhere one time in 3 days, I personally would let mine to do the checkings only one/week. Of course this is something I see it right THIS way, so this is why somehow I should have control over.

I tried to change the update times, simply edited the “gibberish” but when I did that, something went wrong, and half of the crons disappeared. For the testing all I did to change the “twice daily” to “Once Daily”, but that didn´t worked.

I edited “twicedaily” to “daily”  and the corresponding interval 43200 to 86400. Did it worked? NOPE. Luckily I had some backup and put it back. But now I am stucked.  I now use a plugin to stop this “update madness” and do it manually once in a while, but I wish I could just edit these and set it up wordpress to run the update checks from time to time.

I would like to keep the dbmanager cron for optimizing and scheduled backup as is, but every other I would like to change.

It may sound strange why I need this, but I need it and it kills me that I am unable to figure out how.