WordPress — Cron & Scheduling
Missed schedules, dead hooks, queue workers that stop, and how to know cron is actually running.
WordPress cron hook stuck for years — finding silently dead scheduled hooks
You went looking for one slow scheduled job and found something worse. A row in wpoptions under cron has a nextrun timestamp from 2021. The site is in 2026. The…
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WordPress Cron Not Running: How to Detect and Fix It
WordPress cron is responsible for scheduled posts, plugin updates, email queues, and cache cleanup. When it stops, nothing warns you. Here’s how to detect…
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WordPress cron reliability — using max vs average delay to find the blocking job
Your WordPress site looks healthy. Posts publish, logins work, the homepage is fast. But the average delay between a scheduled WP-Cron event's intended run time…
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WordPress scheduled posts not publishing — diagnosing missed cron jobs
You hit "Schedule" on a post for 9:00 AM. The editor confirms it. The post sits there with the status "Scheduled" — and 9:00 AM comes and goes. At 9:15 you refr…
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WordPress wp-cron disabled (DISABLE_WP_CRON=true) — how to verify your real cron actually works
You set DISABLEWPCRON=true in wp-config.php months ago and added a system crontab entry to call wp-cron.php directly. Everything looked fine. Page loads got fas…
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