Cron job templates

Drives WordPress's scheduled tasks from outside, on a fixed cadence.

Calls an on-demand revalidation route so statically generated pages refresh.

Fetches sitemap.xml daily and fails if it is missing or not valid XML.

Tells Bing, Yandex and Seznam that a URL changed.

Touches an endpoint that opens a database connection, on a slow cadence.

Rebuilds or syncs the search index overnight.

Deletes expired sessions and tokens so the table does not grow without bound.

Deletes records past their retention window.

Exchanges a refresh token for a new access token before the old one lapses.

Runs the sweep that finds stale carts and queues their reminder emails.

Triggers the digest send at a fixed local time each morning.

Runs the billing cycle on the first of the month.

Works the dunning queue once a day.

Pulls stock levels from the system of record every half hour.

Calls a route that runs the Laravel scheduler once a minute.

Nudges a queue-processing endpoint so background work does not sit.

Kicks off a backup job and treats a slow response as a failure.

Requests a page so the CDN or app cache is populated before visitors arrive.

Pulls an RSS, JSON or partner feed on a short cycle.

Builds and sends the weekly rollup on Monday morning.

Posts a message to a Slack incoming webhook on weekday mornings.

Polls a health endpoint and fails on a bad body, a bad status or a slow reply.

Pings an external heartbeat URL so a third-party watchdog knows this ran.