How To Disable WP-Cron.php Print

The wp-cron procedure is the topic of one of the most common WordPress support questions. WP-Cron controls all of your WordPress website's scheduled events. It is a typical source of excessive CPU loads and memory usage, particularly for websites with huge databases and/or traffic. By default, WordPress is configured to call the wp-cron.php file whenever your website is visited. This is OK for the majority of websites, but when you begin to get a significant amount of traffic, it may begin to stack up the processes and negatively impact the overall speed of your website.

How to disable wp-cron.php

Thankfully it’s very easy to disable wp-cron.php by just adding a line of code to your configuration file:

1. Navigate to wp-config.php file where you have installed WordPress
2. Open it up in file manager or your favorite text editor
3. Add the following: define(‘DISABLE_WP_CRON’, true);
4. Save the file and re-upload.

Now WordPress will no longer automatically run this file when a visitor accesses your website.

Setup wp-cron.php to run manually