03 ways to run WP-CRON manually

I’ve recently been look­ing at how best to run wp-cron manu­ally from the sys­tem to avoid a per­form­ance hit when a vis­it­or loads the site. I’ve so far found 3 dif­fer­ent ways to run this. There may be others.

I make no com­ment on the advant­ages or dis­ad­vant­ages of each yet, because I simply don’t know well enough to be in a pos­i­tion to make recommendations…

• wget -q -O - HTTPS://yourdomain.tld/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron >/dev/null 2>&1

• wp cron event run --due-now --path='/path/to/wordpress/'

• php /path/to/wordpress/wp-cron.php >/dev/null 2>&1