Scheduled tasks stall without visitors or a server cron
Scheduled tasks run only when visitors arrive, and owners cannot tell how to set up a real server cron.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 14 March 2024 · last reported 12 October 2026
What's going wrong
Owners of this scheduling plugin find that tasks only run when someone visits the site, so weekly reports and background jobs stall on quiet sites.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
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