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Horizontally scalable, works perfectly with multisite. 2.0.3(3y ago)540304.7k↓36.2%48[25 issues](https://github.com/humanmade/Cavalcade/issues)[1 PRs](https://github.com/humanmade/Cavalcade/pulls)2GPL-2.0+PHPCI failing Since Apr 16Pushed 3w ago41 watchersCompare [ Source](https://github.com/humanmade/Cavalcade)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/humanmade/cavalcade)[ Docs](https://github.com/humanmade/Cavalcade)[ RSS](/packages/humanmade-cavalcade/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced 2d ago READMEChangelog (6)Dependencies (3)Versions (10)Used By (2) **Cavalcade** A better wp-cron. Horizontally scalable, works perfectly with multisite. [ ![Build status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/2a57e75f166a38c707687cdc89cdbb710415f9c3fb61377ae5ada4877693df6e/68747470733a2f2f7472617669732d63692e6f72672f68756d616e6d6164652f436176616c636164652e7376673f6272616e63683d6d6173746572) ](https://travis-ci.org/humanmade/Cavalcade) [ ![Coverage via codecov.io](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/663a77e40256ffccb54ef5f1208dca028a8f375b92ac7cb648c6b074527564e7/687474703a2f2f636f6465636f762e696f2f6769746875622f68756d616e6d6164652f436176616c636164652f636f7665726167652e7376673f6272616e63683d6d6173746572) ](http://codecov.io/github/humanmade/Cavalcade?branch=master) A **[Human Made](https://hmn.md/)** project. Maintained by @rmccue. [![](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/21ddd8db8af0243ccabd437a33ded6e2da1e9777d1b4d75f30ab9ac80803c90a/68747470733a2f2f686d6e2e6d642f636f6e74656e742f7468656d65732f686d6e6d642f6173736574732f696d616765732f686d2d6c6f676f2e737667)](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/21ddd8db8af0243ccabd437a33ded6e2da1e9777d1b4d75f30ab9ac80803c90a/68747470733a2f2f686d6e2e6d642f636f6e74656e742f7468656d65732f686d6e6d642f6173736574732f696d616765732f686d2d6c6f676f2e737667) 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](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/956bc17b4b67f3a05924e6622b770eaf5f3d8b4b0ac736d86ecf1fe7116aad29/687474703a2f2f692e696d6775722e636f6d2f6e7954464466522e706e67)](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/956bc17b4b67f3a05924e6622b770eaf5f3d8b4b0ac736d86ecf1fe7116aad29/687474703a2f2f692e696d6775722e636f6d2f6e7954464466522e706e67) 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 ------------- [](#documentation) **[View documentation →](https://github.com/humanmade/Cavalcade/tree/master/docs)** - [Motivation](docs/motivation.md) - Why Cavalcade? - [Installation](docs/install.md) - [Example Use Cases](docs/examples.md) - [Plugins](docs/plugins.md) - Extending the functionality of Cavalcade License ------- [](#license) Cavalcade is [licensed under the GPLv2 or later](LICENSE.txt). Who? ---- [](#who) Created by Human Made for high volume and large-scale sites, such as [Happytables](http://happytables.com/). We run Cavalcade on sites with millions of monthly page views, and thousands of sites, including [The Tab](http://thetab.com/), and the [United Influencers](http://unitedinfluencers.se/) network. Maintained by [Ryan McCue](https://github.com/rmccue). Interested in joining in on the fun? [Join us, and become human!](https://hmn.md/is/hiring/) ### Health Score 58 — FairBetter than 98% of packages Maintenance61 Regular maintenance activity Popularity56 Moderate usage in the ecosystem Community40 Growing community involvement Maturity66 Established project with proven stability Bus Factor2 2 contributors hold 50%+ of commits How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window. **Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores. **Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement. **Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability. ### Release Activity Cadence Every ~249 days Recently: every ~261 days Total 6 Last Release 1389d ago Major Versions 1.0.1 → 2.0.02020-02-18 ### Community Maintainers ![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/21655?v=4)[Ryan McCue](/maintainers/rmccue)[@rmccue](https://github.com/rmccue) ![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/77dbeefb7745010589603f2ffc6ff310d8f700b58e08d52af190744c43342526?d=identicon)[roborourke](/maintainers/roborourke) ![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f1d0ffccdc5d339ff98a91e1b224a0d92f93dc8c2f772124473a76655b83129c?d=identicon)[joehoyle](/maintainers/joehoyle) ![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d90a938633be46488e62828ea10317d70e8d039bdd5070f5760139ca91a38362?d=identicon)[kovshenin](/maintainers/kovshenin) --- Top Contributors [![peterwilsoncc](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/519727?v=4)](https://github.com/peterwilsoncc "peterwilsoncc (99 commits)")[![rmccue](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/21655?v=4)](https://github.com/rmccue "rmccue (69 commits)")[![roborourke](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/23417?v=4)](https://github.com/roborourke "roborourke (56 commits)")[![joehoyle](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/161683?v=4)](https://github.com/joehoyle "joehoyle (12 commits)")[![dd32](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/767313?v=4)](https://github.com/dd32 "dd32 (8 commits)")[![tillkruss](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/665029?v=4)](https://github.com/tillkruss "tillkruss (6 commits)")[![iandunn](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/484068?v=4)](https://github.com/iandunn "iandunn (5 commits)")[![onnimonni](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5691777?v=4)](https://github.com/onnimonni "onnimonni (5 commits)")[![mihdan](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/666732?v=4)](https://github.com/mihdan "mihdan (3 commits)")[![tfrommen](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6049306?v=4)](https://github.com/tfrommen "tfrommen (3 commits)")[![jasonheecs](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9844923?v=4)](https://github.com/jasonheecs "jasonheecs (2 commits)")[![ocean90](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/617637?v=4)](https://github.com/ocean90 "ocean90 (1 commits)")[![faishal](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1633818?v=4)](https://github.com/faishal "faishal (1 commits)")[![Japh](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/237905?v=4)](https://github.com/Japh "Japh (1 commits)")[![dan-westall](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1890984?v=4)](https://github.com/dan-westall "dan-westall (1 commits)")[![thisismyurl](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/122108986?v=4)](https://github.com/thisismyurl "thisismyurl (1 commits)") --- Tags cavalcademultisitescheduled-taskswordpresswordpress-pluginworkerswp-cliwp-cron ### Code Quality TestsPHPUnit ### Embed Badge ![Health badge](/badges/humanmade-cavalcade/health.svg) ``` [![Health](https://phpackages.com/badges/humanmade-cavalcade/health.svg)](https://phpackages.com/packages/humanmade-cavalcade) ``` ### Alternatives [helsingborg-stad/municipio A bootstrap theme for creating municipality sites. 4028.5k10](/packages/helsingborg-stad-municipio)[october/rain October Rain Library 1601.7M83](/packages/october-rain)[pressbooks/pressbooks Pressbooks is an open source book publishing tool built on a WordPress multisite platform. 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