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How to enable loopback connections for WordPress cron in Plesk

Enabling loopback connections for WordPress cron is an easy task with this handy guide by our experts. WordPress imitates cron works by ensuring the site connects back to itself.

Furthermore, this occurs via curl or other fallback connection methods in case curl is not available. In fact, this triggers further actions to take place behind the scene.

Our Support Techs are here with two different ways to get this done. The first option involves connecting to the server via RDP for Windows or SSH for Linux. Then, we add the domain to the host’s file in order to enable the loopback. We can find the hosts file at %SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts – for Windows and /etc/hosts – for Linux.

For instance, in this example we add the domain as seen below to enable the loopback:

# 127.0.0.1 www.example.com example.com localhost localhost.localdomain

If the above option is not successful, our Support Techs have another solution to help you out.

1. First, log in to Plesk.
2. Next, head to httpdocs under Domains > example.com > File Manager and click wp-config.php file in order to edit it.
3. Then, add the following line to the wp-config.php file:

   # define ('ALTERNATE_WP_CRON', true);

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Conclusion

To sum up, our skilled Support Engineers at Bobcares demonstrated how to enable loopback connections for WordPress cron.