[wp-hackers] Deleting a lot of posts/terms on plugin deactivation

[Dobri]

wp-cron fires up on page request only (kinda the only way with just PHP if you think hard enough) so yes, in a way it's synchronous but at the same time no, since wordpress fires up a separate non-blocking (asynchronous) request to wp-cron so as to not make the original request wait for time-consuming cron jobs if such happen to exist the moment someone accessed the server. You know, user experience and stuff. But yes, Chris had a good point, 0 visitors means no jobs being done. I've seen it happen but there are workarounds.

~Dobri

On Sun, 30 Jun 2013, at 2:28 PM, Matthias Breuer wrote:

> 
> Am 30.06.2013 um 08:39 schrieb Ryan McCue <lists at rotorised.com>:
> 
>> Nikola Nikolov wrote:
>>> Yeah - I guess that this will be my choice at the end - just wanted to
>>> check if someone else has any better ideas.
>> 
>> Your best bet is to offload this onto wp-cron, which runs without a
>> timelimit (similar to CLI) in the background.
> 
> I always thought wp-cron is running as a synchronous process when not called via real cronjobs. Is it done asynchronously?
> 
>> 
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