Title: Crontrol cron not executing automatically
Last modified: December 4, 2018

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# Crontrol cron not executing automatically

 *  Resolved [souravmaity1987](https://wordpress.org/support/users/souravmaity1987/)
 * (@souravmaity1987)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/crontrol-cron-not-executing-automatically/)
 * I have created a cron event, and assigned a cron schedule. Cron is about to execute
   daily , as I have assigned daily cron schedule. But cron job are not executing
   automatically , **rather it is executing on hitting site url on browser**.
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   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [John Blackbourn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnbillion/)
 * (@johnbillion)
 * WordPress Core Developer
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/crontrol-cron-not-executing-automatically/#post-10944507)
 * This is how the cron system in WordPress works.
 *  Thread Starter [souravmaity1987](https://wordpress.org/support/users/souravmaity1987/)
 * (@souravmaity1987)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/crontrol-cron-not-executing-automatically/#post-10944596)
 * But cron job should execute daily automatically. It is not executing automatically
   in our site, it is executing by hitting site url on browser.
 *  [alphageekuk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alphageekuk/)
 * (@alphageekuk)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/crontrol-cron-not-executing-automatically/#post-11015792)
 * WordPress executes Cron jobs when your site gets a visitor. If your site has 
   low traffic, then this will cause your problem. You’ll need an external service
   to call Cron regularly. It’s possible your hosting company can do this for you.

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/crontrol-cron-not-executing-automatically/#post-11015792)
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