Reply To: Disable WP Cron

Thanks for all your help – am getting to grips with it a bit more now!
After some digging into it all a bit more and checking for cron jobs via my cPanel, I think I’ve found out what happened. My old site that I moved to our current server had lots of issues with timing out/crashing initially and my server thought it might be related to the wp-cron so they disabled it and set up the cron jobs in cPanel to run every hour. But then they found a historical (very large) full directory backup that the site was always trying to load – hence the timing out problem – so they deleted it and all was sorted. But I didn’t really understand about the wp-cron (and didn’t have BPS installed then) so just left it as it was and totally forgot about it!
So I’ve now deleted the ‘disable wp-cron’ line from my wp-config.php and deleted the cron jobs in my cPanel, and hopefully all will be sweet!
Thanks for all your help – much appreciated, particularly as it stops me from panicking and doing something really stupid.