Better Cron management for Wordpress

[wunluv]

Wordpress by default appears to call the wp-cron when someone loads any web page. See: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/wordpress/disabling-the-wp-cronphp-in-wordpress https://www.ecenica.com/support/answer/replace-wordpress-cron-cpanel-cron-job/

Digging deeper it appears there is a 60s lock on cron. This I imagine to be some kind of ddos protection to prevent someone from maliciously loading wp-cron.php continuously. Nonetheless, an OS level cron would be better for performance, so I suggest we:

• disable standard WP cron as shown above via wp-config
• create a system level cron
• install the following module which also gives us finer grained control over existing cronjobs and the functionality to add new custom crons where required (in civicrm for example) http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-view-and-control-wordpress-cron-jobs/