How to reduce wp-cron.php consumption
WordPress has scheduled tasks, such as checking WordPress updates, plugins or theme, backing up, pingbacks, etc.
These tasks are usually triggered when someone visits the web, for example. That is why it is not a problem until you have a peak of visits and thousands of unnecessary checks are executed that have already been checked less than a second ago over-saturing the server:
To avoid this type of consumption, you can control when these checks are executed and limit them to hourly. For example, so that only 24 checks will be done at the end of the day and thus not saturate the server.
First of all, it is recommended to disable it in the wp-config.php file by adding this code before the line that says
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php'); which is when WordPress loads this configuration.define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true);
Once modified and saved you must create the cron in your dashboard.cdmon, access the Crons tool within accommodation management:
And you set it up with the following data, the default time recommended is every 1 hour, but if for some reason it is necessary to put another value it is possible to put another:
With this you can control the consumption done by WordPress tasks and thus reduce it.
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