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Scheduled tasks (cron jobs)

Scheduled tasks (cron jobs) run a command for you on a schedule, for example every 15 minutes or every night. They work for any type of website.

  1. Open the website. At the bottom of its page, click Show next to Advanced settings, then Scheduled tasks (cron). (Or type cron in the search box at the top.)
  2. In Schedule, enter when it runs, in the usual five fields: minute, hour, day, month, weekday.
  3. In Command, enter what to run, then click Add.
The Cron Jobs card: one job every 15 minutes running wp cron, and the Schedule and Command boxes with Add.

Schedules

ScheduleRuns
*/15 * * * *Every 15 minutes
0 * * * *At the start of every hour
30 2 * * *Every night at 2:30
0 6 * * 1Mondays at 6:00

The shortest interval is every 5 minutes. Commands run with your website’s files under /sites, and PHP, WP-CLI, curl and wget are there, just like the website console.

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