Matt, thanks for the informative article. It was very helpful in understand the issue. Sounds like a poor design. With so many small bloggers on WP the majority of them probably don’t get that traffic needed to trigger the chron.
For myself there are two concerns
1) The WordPress chron (or “faux cron” as the article calls it ) is pretty useless for smaller bloggers like me. I get a lot of traffic (15-20,000 monthly), but only a small amount of it comes at random times. Most of it comes after I tell people through social media and email the new post has been made. But I would like the new daily post to show up automatically in the early morning for the random visitors who comes to the site organically. Having the new post there for those random visitors will help build an audience outside of social media. But there is no way to make that happen when I don’t exactly know when people will show up on their own. Bummer.
2) The article was informative, but for someone like me who does not understand code it appears too complicated to replace the WP chron. I am completely confident that if I try to do what the article suggest I will mess up my website?. It would be great if someone made the chron into a true cron and not a “faux cron”.
Thanks!
