humanmade/cavalcade
A better wp-cron. Horizontally scalable, works perfectly with multisite.
Maintainers
Package info
github.com/humanmade/Cavalcade
Type:wordpress-muplugin
pkg:composer/humanmade/cavalcade
Requires
- composer/installers: ^1.0 || ^2.0
Requires (Dev)
- phpunit/phpunit: ^7.1 || ^9.0
- yoast/phpunit-polyfills: ^1.0
Suggests
None
Provides
None
Conflicts
None
Replaces
None
GPL-2.0+ 87ff25e5f6a99b7d7c6626f966adceb086186c73
This package is auto-updated.
Last update: 2026-06-09 13:25:05 UTC
README
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Cavalcade is a scalable job system, designed as a drop-in replacement for WordPress's built-in pseudo-cron system.
👁 Flowchart of how Cavalcade works
From the WordPress side, none of your code needs to change. Cavalcade transparently integrates with the existing wp-cron functions to act as a full replacement. Cavalcade pushes these jobs off into their own database table for efficient storage.
At the core of Cavalcade is the job runner. The runner is a daemon that supervises the entire system. The runner constantly checks the database for new jobs, and is responsible for spawning and managing workers to handle the jobs when they're ready.
The runner spawns workers, which perform the actual tasks themselves. This is done by running a special WP-CLI command.
Documentation
- Motivation - Why Cavalcade?
- Installation
- Example Use Cases
- Plugins - Extending the functionality of Cavalcade
License
Cavalcade is licensed under the GPLv2 or later.
Who?
Created by Human Made for high volume and large-scale sites, such as Happytables. We run Cavalcade on sites with millions of monthly page views, and thousands of sites, including The Tab, and the United Influencers network.
Maintained by Ryan McCue.
Interested in joining in on the fun? Join us, and become human!