Drupal — Cron & Scheduling
Missed schedules, dead hooks, queue workers that stop, and how to know cron is actually running.
Drupal Cron Not Running: How to Detect and Fix It
Drupal cron handles search indexing, queue processing, cache expiration, and module maintenance. When it stops, the site still loads - but everything running in…
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Drupal Queue Not Processing: How to Detect Stuck Queues
Drupal’s Queue API handles newsletters, image processing, notifications, and batch operations. When queues stop processing, items accumulate silently. Nob…
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Drupal queue workers stuck — finding the bad queue item
You open Drupal's status report. Cron last ran two minutes ago. The queue table — queue, or your Advanced Queue's advancedqueue — has 14,000 items. Yesterday it…
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