Some of my digital products, especially those that are automated, utilize WordPress CRON. WordPress CRON (WP-Cron) is how WordPress handles scheduling time-based tasks. Digital products tagged here use WP-Cron in some capacity.

WordPress CRON is based on traffic, which means if your site does not see a lot of traffic, CRON events may not be triggered at the time that they are scheduled. To ensure that your CRON events always run (closest) to their scheduled times, I recommend one of these two solutions:

1. Use Server CRON. It is recommended in the WordPress developer resources to set up your system’s task scheduler to run on the desired intervals and to use that to make a web request to wp-cron.php. View WordPress Documentation.
2. Use Cron-Job.org. If you can’t set up your system’s task scheduler, I recommend outsourcing that job to cron-job.org to automatically ping your website’s wp-cron.php file. It is a free service from the German-based developers. Go to Cron-Job.org.

Some of my digital products, especially those that are automated, utilize WordPress CRON. WordPress CRON (WP-Cron) is how WordPress handles scheduling time-based tasks. Digital products tagged here use WP-Cron in some capacity.

WordPress CRON is based on traffic, which means if your site does not see a lot of traffic, CRON events may not be triggered at the time that they are scheduled. To ensure that your CRON events always run (closest) to their scheduled times, I recommend one of these two solutions:

1. Use Server CRON. It is recommended in the WordPress developer resources to set up your system’s task scheduler to run on the desired intervals and to use that to make a web request to wp-cron.php. View WordPress Documentation.
2. Use Cron-Job.org. If you can’t set up your system’s task scheduler, I recommend outsourcing that job to cron-job.org to automatically ping your website’s wp-cron.php file. It is a free service from the German-based developers. Go to Cron-Job.org.