The Go Button can do anything with a click of a button! Adds a button to the WordPress Dashboard, that fires an action hook "gobutton_clicked". Add code in your theme or plugin to respond to that action and it will fire any time someone clicks.

gobutton.php

<?php
/**
Plugin Name: Go Button
Plugin URI: https://gist.github.com/lgedeon/8b3cb0825a0c10b4178374f389d42e71
Description: The Go Button can do anything with a click of a button! Adds a button to the WordPress Dashboard, that fires an action hook "gobutton_clicked". Add code in your theme or plugin to respond to that action and it will fire any time someone clicks.
Version: 0.3
Author: lgedeon
Author URI: https://github.com/lgedeon
License: GPLv2 or later
Text Domain: gobutton
 */

// This can easily used as a drop-in inside themes or other plugins. As such it could be included multiple times.
if ( ! function_exists( 'gobutton_dashboard_widget_callback' ) ) {

	add_action( 'wp_dashboard_setup', function() {
		wp_add_dashboard_widget(
			'gobutton_dashboard_widget',
			__( 'Go Button: One Time & Long Running Process Launcher', 'gobutton' ),
			'gobutton_dashboard_widget_callback'
		);
	} );

	/**
	 * Create the function to output the contents of the Dashboard Widget.
	 */
	function gobutton_dashboard_widget_callback() {
		$description = __( 'Press this button to run any one time or long running actions registered by other plugins or themes.', 'gobutton' );
		$button_pressed = filter_has_var( INPUT_POST, 'gobutton' );
		$nonce = filter_input( INPUT_POST, '_wpnonce', FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING );

		if ( $button_pressed && wp_verify_nonce( $nonce, 'go_button' ) ) {
			/**
			 * Fires each time user clicks the "Go" button on the dashboard.
			 *
			 * Also since this is inside the widget, this is an easy spot to output status. Admin Notices are a better
			 * option https://digwp.com/2016/05/wordpress-admin-notices/
			 */
			do_action( 'gobutton_clicked' );
		}

		?>
		<form name="post" action="<?php echo esc_url( admin_url() ); ?>" method="post" id="go-button">

			<p>
				<?php
				/**
				 * Filter description to notify your potential victim of their impending doom.
				 *
				 * Multiple plugins may use this same hook so prefer adding to description rather than replacing.
				 */
				esc_html( apply_filters( 'gobutton_description', $description ) );
				?>
			</p>

			<p class="submit">
				<?php wp_nonce_field( 'go_button' ); ?>
				<?php submit_button( __( 'Go', 'gobutton' ), 'primary', 'gobutton', false ); ?>
				<br class="clear"/>
			</p>

		</form>
		<?php
	}
}