Queued emails stall when WP-Cron stops running
Queued emails stall and are never sent because WP-Cron is not running, and the manual send-now action reports nothing to do.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 25 January 2023 · last reported 9 March 2025
What's going wrong
Several site owners report that once queueing is enabled, messages sit in the queue indefinitely.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.