Title: Tutorial about wp-cron.php
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Tutorial about wp-cron.php

 *  [Giorgos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gnot/)
 * (@gnot)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tutorial-about-wp-cronphp/)
 * I need to schedule some tasks in wordpress. Can anyone recommend a tutorial or
   a plugin that demonstrates the scheduling of tasks through wp-cron.php in order
   to use as an example? Can wordpress schedule tasks by itself or it needs to be
   also assisted by the system’s crond? Didn’t find any detailed docs or examples.
 * Thanks in advance.

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 *  [jamiefehr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamiefehr/)
 * (@jamiefehr)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tutorial-about-wp-cronphp/#post-765152)
 * wp-cron is activated by page views, when a page is loaded it checks if the time
   set for a scheduled task has past and if so does it. I can’t find any really 
   good tutorials either, despite having so much time pass.
 * this is all I’ve got thats any good so far:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_schedule_event](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_schedule_event)

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