There are many times we have seen that our WordPress cron does not work as expected or always.

By default WP cron runs when they receive a traffic on the server but this is an old approach and many people use latest approach by disable the WP_CRON and enabling it via server cron.

To enable it via server cron we can add

// wp-config.php
define( 'DISABLE_WP_CRON', true );

Then add below line into your crontab

*/5 * * * * wget --delete-after http://YOUR_SITE_URL/wp-cron.php

By doing this we make sure that cron will run every 5 minutes regularly even if there is no visitors on the website.

I hope this article helps and let me know your suggestions below.