CRON jobs support

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  mewespace · Member · May 27, 2021 at 6:24 pm

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  Hi, I’m looking at WP’s business hosting service and I’d like to know if WP supports CRON jobs running throughout the day for aggregated content? If not, is there a VPS option available? Thank you

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  supernovia · Staff · May 28, 2021 at 1:51 am

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  Hi @mewespace, good question! I haven’t heard of our customers using CRON, though I do know WordPress uses CRON for some of its own processes. I’ll see what I can find out for you and we will update you here.

  I am pretty sure CRON is available on WordPress VIP, though, based on this document:
  https://docs.wpvip.com/technical-references/tools-for-site-management/cron-control/

  You might reach out to them too if it would make sense for your business.

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  supernovia · Staff · May 28, 2021 at 3:53 pm

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  Hi again! Here’s what I found:

  We don’t support server side cron jobs on the Business Plan, but you can use the WP-Cron system available and add jobs via plugins: https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/cron/

  There are also plugins to help with adding and editing cron events: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-crontrol/

  Hoping that helps! You might check in with WordPress VIP too.

  Let us know if you have other questions we can help with.