Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.There are several places in help/UI text that mention cron.
We now have poormanscron in core.
None of those places mention it. They should. There needs to be some help somewhere that explains it, and the status reports page cron section should mention it, and the places that point to status reports page should consider what to say.
Comments
Comment #1
jhodgdonJust as a note, you set up poormanscron on admin/config/system/site-information
Also as another note, the cron page in the Handbook probably should mention this. http://drupal.org/cron Several of the help screens within D7 point there.
Comment #2
yoroy commentedComment #3
droplet commentedAlso, the cron help need to mention that run cron through system cron tools is better than the module. Core cron called when you access the website, it could blocking you a few mins in a slow network.
Comment #9
wylbur commentedPoormanscron was added to Drupal 7, and continues in Drupal 8. The process if running cron no longer required defining a difference between Cron and PoormansCron, which really only refers to the operrations of Cron.
Marking this as outdated. Reopen if appropriate.