Cron job starts only after login to admin panel

Correction: I do not have to be logged in as admin. The cron job not starts at the scheduled time but if the website is accessed after the scheduled time. It is correct? intended in the plugin?

Today the automatic backup job started but not exactly at the scheduled time, 1 hour later. Moreover, in the google statistics I saw there was no website access at this time.

Automatic backup works fine. However not exactly at the scheduled time. Sometimes hour later, sometimes 15 minutes later. It is not a problem for me, it makes backup.

Thanks,
Darek

I am having the same problem. The issues seems to be wp_cron does not run in the background:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/set-cron-job-in-my-plugins?replies=4

I did not see this on my production site because I use a monitoring service to check it every 5 minutes. However on my staging site, it was only running when someone accessed the site.

If you don’t have a site that is constantly being accessed, it looks like you’ll need to select one of the other job start options or set up a monitoring tool, which seems to work well, though it’s not exact. Plus or minus a few minutes.