Question Make wp-cron.php run every minute

[macandcheese]

Currently, when enabling 'Take over wp-cron.php' and 'Create a replacement task (...)', the cron job that's created only runs twice an hour. (See screenshots below)

This seems wrong; any Wordpress cronjob that needs to run at a higher interval, will fire too late.
There is no performance benefit to running wp-cron less often, in fact, it might cause performance problems, because late jobs would pile up.

We have a bunch of sites that needed their cronjobs to be manually tweaked due to this.

Can the default wp-cron.php interval be changed to every minute, please?

One source that offers some more explanation: Event Scheduling and wp-cron - Support Center

Missed crons and crons that run too frequently can both be resolved by enabling the [system native cronjob]. This alternate cron is a service on the server itself and checks for “due now” crons every minute by curling wp-cron.php, rather than running cron processes based on traffic flow.

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[Kaspar@Plesk]

Can the default wp-cron.php interval be changed to every minute, please?

Great idea. I suggest adding your suggestion to our user UserVoice page from which we gather feedback for future releases. Feature suggestions that become popular are more likely to considered for future releases.

 

[macandcheese]

Thanks, done: Let wp-cron run every minute by default