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  • Hi Brian. I was under the impression that WP had built-in features for setting up cron jobs? Commented Feb 17, 2012 at 16:15
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    Well, it's a psuedo-cron which depends on people visiting your site. It could create a performance issue for the unlucky user who hits your site when it's time to run the wp-cron. The more reliable approach to make sure the cron runs at scheduled intervals is to use crontab. You can see the wp-cron functions here: codex.wordpress.org/Category:WP-Cron_Functions Commented Feb 17, 2012 at 16:22
  • Thanks Brian. Site gets enough traffic (30,000 unique visitors/week) so I think we'll be OK in those terms. The script isn't absolutely massive and there'll very rarely be more than one post at a time updated. Commented Feb 17, 2012 at 16:33