{"id":304,"date":"2026-03-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.securinsight.ca\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/workflows-workers-workflow-instances-now-support-pause-resume-restart-and-terminate-methods-in-local-development\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:00:00","slug":"workflows-workers-workflow-instances-now-support-pause-resume-restart-and-terminate-methods-in-local-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.securinsight.ca\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/workflows-workers-workflow-instances-now-support-pause-resume-restart-and-terminate-methods-in-local-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Workflows, Workers &#8211; Workflow instances now support pause(), resume(), restart(), and terminate() methods in local development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Workflow instance methods <code>pause()<\/code>, <code>resume()<\/code>, <code>restart()<\/code>, and <code>terminate()<\/code> are now available in local development when using <code>wrangler dev<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>You can now test the full Workflow instance lifecycle locally:<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<pre data-language=\"ts\"><code class=\"language-ts\"><div><div><span>const<\/span><span> <\/span><span>instance<\/span><span> <\/span><span>=<\/span><span> <\/span><span>await<\/span><span> <\/span><span>env<\/span><span>.<\/span><span>MY_WORKFLOW<\/span><span>.<\/span><span>create<\/span><span>(<\/span><span>{<\/span><\/div><\/div><div><div><span><span>  <\/span><\/span><span>id<\/span><span>:<\/span><span> <\/span><span>\"my-instance-id\"<\/span><span>,<\/span><\/div><\/div><div><div><span>}<\/span><span>)<\/span><span>;<\/span><\/div><\/div><div><div>\n<\/div><\/div><div><div><span>await<\/span><span> <\/span><span>instance<\/span><span>.<\/span><span>pause<\/span><span>()<\/span><span>;<\/span><span> <\/span><span>\/\/ pauses a running workflow instance<\/span><\/div><\/div><div><div><span>await<\/span><span> <\/span><span>instance<\/span><span>.<\/span><span>resume<\/span><span>()<\/span><span>;<\/span><span> <\/span><span>\/\/ resumes a paused instance<\/span><\/div><\/div><div><div><span>await<\/span><span> <\/span><span>instance<\/span><span>.<\/span><span>restart<\/span><span>()<\/span><span>;<\/span><span> <\/span><span>\/\/ restarts the instance from the beginning<\/span><\/div><\/div><div><div><span>await<\/span><span> <\/span><span>instance<\/span><span>.<\/span><span>terminate<\/span><span>()<\/span><span>;<\/span><span> <\/span><span>\/\/ terminates the instance immediately<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/code><\/pre>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workflow instance methods pause(), resume(), restart(), and terminate() are now available in local development when using wrangler dev. You can now test the full Workflow instance lifecycle locally: const instance = await env.MY_WORKFLOW.create({ id: &#8220;my-instance-id&#8221;,}); await instance.pause(); \/\/ pauses a running workflow instanceawait instance.resume(); \/\/ resumes a paused instanceawait instance.restart(); \/\/ restarts the instance from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.securinsight.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.securinsight.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.securinsight.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.securinsight.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.securinsight.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.securinsight.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.securinsight.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.securinsight.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.securinsight.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}