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Decrease your WordPress overhead by moving wp-cron to a scheduled task
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 If you are looking to speed up WordPress, increase performance under load, or are running into issues with resource usage going absolutely crazy when a search engine indexes your site – then you may wish to switch from the “poor-mans-cron” approach and create a formal job to get WordPress to do its homework via wp-cron.php periodically, on your terms, and not with every page load. This article outlines the steps to take to achieve this. WordPress uses a file called wp-cron.php to do all of its housework. Things such as checking for updates, sending out emails, tidying up, publishing articles, and so on. As the name suggests this is a way to get a Cron Job run – a familiar term for those of you are familiar with Linux/Unix/Apple iOS – however, for those of you more Windows-centric this would be a Scheduled Task. As hosting is not always provided with the ability to set a Cron job or Scheduled tasks – Automattic has worked around this by applyi...
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