WordPress Cron Explained (Real-World Guide After 6 Years)

If you’ve built WordPress features that should run in the background, you’ve probably hit this: Email should send every hour → doesn’t Cleanup should run nightly → skips One-time reminder after signup → never fires The code looks fine. Local works. Production doesn’t. After 6 years building WordPress themes, plugins, and WooCommerce projects, I can tell you: most cron issues are not syntax errors. They’re misunderstanding how WordPress scheduling works. What is a scheduled task...