These look to be a week away (see one of the next posts).
So imagine my embarrassment when my site broke today 🙁 I blame the WAHOO KICKR 17 review. I think that’s the first time that my site has ever properly broken (apologies to all…I must have finally got my readership into double figures). I migrated the site in January this year to an ‘unlimited’ business-grade hosting package. But found out at lunchtime (after the crash) that the unlimited bit was disk space and not CPU. Grrrrr. Does anyone know about disabling WordPress CRON jobs? No, neither do I.
Last Updated on 21 January 2026 by the5krunner
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tfk is the founder and author of the5krunner, an independent endurance sports technology publication. With 20 years of hands-on testing of GPS watches and wearables, and competing in triathlons at an international age-group level, tfk provides in-depth expert analysis of fitness technology for serious athletes and endurance sport competitors.
to disable crons on wp:
wp-config.php
insert below line with “define(‚DB_COLLATE‘, “);”
define(‘DISABLE_WP_CRON’, true);
you need to trigger the cron tasks from normal server cron:
wget -q -O – http://xxx.com/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron
blimey…ask and it shall come (or whatever the phrase is)
thank you
If you have no experience with setting up cron jobs on servers, you can do it with my plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/easycron/.