<![CDATA[Crontab in Wordpress (managed) app]]>I know there's wp_cron in the Wordpress app but can we have cron/crontab too?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2265/crontab-in-wordpress-managed-appRSS for NodeMon, 15 Jun 2026 14:24:35 GMTTue, 31 Mar 2020 09:49:33 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Crontab in Wordpress (managed) app on Tue, 31 Mar 2020 16:37:31 GMT]]>There's a bunch of plugins like WP Crontrol, Advanced cron, Simple cron. You can use them to setup a custom pattern and call a custom function. Your PHP function can just shell exec your script (or maybe you can even write PHP depending on your use case).

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/6841https://forum.cloudron.io/post/6841Tue, 31 Mar 2020 16:37:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Crontab in Wordpress (managed) app on Tue, 31 Mar 2020 15:37:46 GMT]]>So can I use that to schedule regular shell commands?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/6835https://forum.cloudron.io/post/6835Tue, 31 Mar 2020 15:37:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Crontab in Wordpress (managed) app on Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:46:07 GMT]]>Wordpress uses the Cloudron cron addon to spin up cron tasks in a separate container, the schedule for this is every 5 minutes.

Basically what it calls is exec /usr/local/bin/gosu www-data:www-data /app/code/wp cron event run --due-now

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