{"id":2272,"date":"2019-10-30T09:01:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T09:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2022-02-17T07:13:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T07:13:49","slug":"wordpress-cron-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wordpress\/cron-scheduled-tasks\/wordpress-cron-general","title":{"rendered":".WordPress Cron General"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WP-Cron is slightly different to a system cron in that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>WP-Cron uses intervals &#8211; whereas a system cron is triggered at specific times<\/li><li>WP-Cron only works when a page on the site is loaded &#8211; if there is no activity on the site then WP-Cron tasks will not run until there next is a vistor.  Not useful for sites that are not really busy.  However it can be worked around <a href=\"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wordpress\/cron-scheduled-tasks\/system-triggered-wp-cron\">see here<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Resources<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.wordpress.org\/plugins\/cron\/scheduling-wp-cron-events\/\">https:\/\/developer.wordpress.org\/plugins\/cron\/scheduling-wp-cron-events\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tommcfarlin.com\/wordpress-cron-jobs\/\">https:\/\/tommcfarlin.com\/wordpress-cron-jobs\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WP-Cron is slightly different to a system cron in that: WP-Cron uses intervals &#8211; whereas a system cron is triggered at specific times WP-Cron only works when a page on the site is loaded &#8211; if there is no activity on the site then WP-Cron tasks will not run until there next is a vistor. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cron-scheduled-tasks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3622,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions\/3622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}