How to develop your own Wordpress CRON job properly and ensure it actually runs

• Cavalcade

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  A better wp-cron. Horizontally scalable, works perfectly with multisite.

  

- cavalcade , which completely replaces wp-cron with a queued job runner

• action-scheduler

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  A scalable, traceable job queue for background processing large queues of tasks in WordPress. Specifically designed for distribution in WordPress plugins (and themes) - no server access required.

  

- action scheduler(queued background processing) , which still uses wp-cron but can be replaced with a custom implementation

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• wp-background-processing

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  WordPress background processing class

  

I could be wrong but I believe (if your environment supports it) the cron task will run as a background process. If I'm wrong there is a good third party library that one could use to ensure your task is fired in the background in a non-blocking way

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