Feeds fail when WP-Cron is disabled
Feed generation fails when the platform's cron is disabled or the site is password protected.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
5 public reports · first reported 25 February 2022 · last reported 25 March 2026
What's going wrong
Site owners who turn off the built-in the platform's scheduler, or host sites behind password protection, see a warning that feeds will not be generated. Some have checked their host cron settings and confirmed it runs, yet the message persists on every admin page and the feed never updates. Others ask for the exact system cron line to use. Multi-site and hosted the tool are most affected, and the error often appears after a plugin or host change. A managed scheduling service that runs feed jobs reliably outside it would remove the dependency on this fragile setup.
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Who has this problem
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