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 *   Forum: [Hacks](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/hacks/)
   
   In reply to: [Cron job only fires if pages are visited – why?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cron-job-only-fires-if-pages-are-visited-why/)
 *  Thread Starter [forensicdev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/forensicdev/)
 * (@forensicdev)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cron-job-only-fires-if-pages-are-visited-why/#post-1954818)
 * I am just wondering why WP requires pages to be loaded in order to trigger cron
   jobs. I understand that the wp-cron.php is called every time a page is viewed,
   etc. Yet what I don’t get is why have the wp_schedule_event() function, if it
   still requires user interaction with the site. Doesn’t seem logical. Maybe I 
   am missing something.

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