WP-Cron is slightly different to a system cron in that: WP-Cron uses intervals – whereas a system cron is triggered at specific times WP-Cron only works when a page on the site is loaded – if there is no activity on the site then WP-Cron tasks will not run until there next is a vistor. […]
Category: Cron scheduled tasks
Creating cron function
Setting Up cron within wordpress Using standard recurrence values Standard recurrence values are ‘hourly’, ‘daily’ and ‘twicedaily’. Using your own recurrence values If you want something different from the standard recurrence values you can add the below to define them: Configuring WordPress to use your setup Run this once to setup with the new configuration […]
Debug cron
Show cron status
Manually trigger cron
spawn_cron() sends a request to run WordPress cron but doesn’t halt page loading.
System triggered WP-Cron
You can disable the default triggering of wp-cron.php for any page load and instead have it triggered using the system cron. This is based on the nifty guide here: https://tommcfarlin.com/wordpress-cron-jobs/ Disable defult wordpress cron Stop wp-cron.php being called for every page load (this is actually not a bad thing to do for heavily used sites). […]