WordPress has a wp-cron.php file which runs cron-jobs for a WordPress website. With this file, cron-job doesn’t run in a specific amount of time like 5 minutes or 30minutes. Rather than it runs each time an user visits the website. Today we will learn how to disable WP-Cron in WordPress.
How WP-Cron affects your website performance
If you are having good traffic and your website runs cron-jobs on every visit, this will cause multiple processes that are executed, to run the cron. It may kill your resources as well as performance.
How to disable WP-Cron in WordPress
You can disable WP-Cron by adding a simple line of code in the wp-config.php file in your WordPress. Add this following code in wp-config.php:
define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true);
The problem with disabling the WP-Cron is some features will stop working as they are directly dependent on the cron job. Also plugins that are hooked with WP-Cron will stop running.
So to disable the WP-Cron without having this type of issue, use the above code and at the same time, set up another cron-job manually in your control panel.
You can easily set up cron job and set it for execution on a specific amount of time like 15 minutes, 30 minutes or whatever you want.
*/30 * * * * php /home/$USER/public_html/wp-cron.php
The cron will execute in every 30 minutes and push all output to /dev/null.
Running cron jobs every 30 minutes or even 15 minutes will reduce your resource consumption and may even make your website loading faster.
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