WP-Cron

Hi – I just installed the plugin – straight off it gives me a warning as I don’t have wp-cron enabled. I spoke to my host (wpengine) – they have a cron product as follows….

WP Engine Alternate Cron

Both of these problems can be resolved by enabling WP Engine Alternate Cron. To enable Alternate Cron, simply reach out to WP Engine Support.

Alternate cron is a service on the server that checks for “due now” crons every minute.

Additionally, alternate cron can be used to mimic a server cron because WP Engine does not support true linux, or server side, crons. Alternate cron runs at a consistent minute interval and can be used instead to run other processes that require a schedule.

Alternate cron sets the following define in your site’s wp-config.php file and confirms it’s still set through our daily server processes.

define( 'DISABLE_WP_CRON', true );

Simply adding this define will not enable WP Engine alternate cron, you must reach out to Support to ensure the server configuration option is toggled on for each environment.

WP Engine’s alternate cron does not work for sites that are utilizing custom password protection (basic auth, etc) because the site must be accessible. Sites using WP Engine’s Password Protection will work correctly with our alternate cron.

Alternate cron requires wp_cron be set to false, which means it will be disabled. This may be important and conflict with other custom functionality, so testing may be necessary after initially enabling the feature.

…….. If I ask them to enable this functionality should that be sufficent to enable your plugin to run as normal?

Regards