# Cron job

WordPress has something called wp-cron. If you haven’t read about it, its fine. But please be aware that you cannot live without it! 

Wordpress run cron jobs when a user browse the website, for better performance, this behaviour is disabled.

#### Setup a real cronjob

From your Linux terminal, first open crontab:

```
crontab -e
```

Then add a line like below in it.

```
*/10 * * * * curl https://example.com/edition/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron > /dev/null 2>&1
```

or better

```
*/10 * * * * php /var/www/example.com/htdocs/public/edition/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron > /dev/null 2>&1
```

Please make sure you use correct path to `wp-cron.php`

Above will run wp-cron every 10 minutes. You can change `*/10` to `*/5` to make it run every 5 minute