Cron jobs withhout action

Hello @jpnl,

Thanks for reaching out about the cron jobs.

wpseo_ryte_fetch is related to the Ryte integration we had in the Yoast SEO plugin previously. The integration checked whether a site was indexable by search engines and did so weekly. However, as of Yoast SEO 19.6 released on on the 23rd of August 2022, that integration was deprecated.

wpseo-reindex-links calculates the number of internal links, that is, the number of links from one post to another post (applies to posts, pages, and other content).

This guide will show how to remove Cron jobs: How to Remove Obsolete Cron Jobs in WordPress

• This reply was modified 7 months, 2 weeks ago by Maybellyne.

Thanks for your reply maybellyne,

So since the Ryte integration has been removed, why didn’t you also remove the obsolete cron job? Can you please still do that with future updates? I mean, check if the job exists, and if so, remove it? I know how to manually remove it, but I manage dozens of websites and installing a cron manager plugin, delete the job and uninstall takes too much time. Plus, it’s really the job of a plugin to cleanup after itself.

As for the wpseo-reindex-links job, how is that supposed to work? There is no associated action for that job? Could it be obsolete because it the wpseo-reindex job does the work?

Thanks
JP

Since the cron calculates the number of internal links, have you run the SEO data optimization on that site?

Not sure which of the crons you are referring to, but yes, see screenshot.

How does that explain a cron that can’t do anything (no action)?
Can you remove the obsolete cron?

Not sure which of the crons you are referring to

I was referring to wpseo-reindex-links

Can you remove the obsolete cron?

Yes, please remove it. Then monitor it and let us know if you see it again without an action attached

• This reply was modified 7 months, 1 week ago by Maybellyne.

I did not ask if I could remove it. I asked if YOU could remove it (with plugin updates).

Yoast has two orphaned cron jobs that don’t have an associated action. So as far as I know, they don’t do anything except keeping rescheduling itself for no reason.

The ryte cron is for sure obsolete. Yoast removed the integration, so Yoast should properly cleanup and also remove it’s cron job.

I removed both jobs with the WP Crontrol plugin and they didn’t come back. Not immediately and not after updating to the latest version.

My point is that Yoast left orphaned cron jobs on existing installs, and that it should remove them if they are not used anymore. So please, add this to your bug/enhancement list to get this sorted.

Thanks
JP

Thanks for the feedback. We will communicate to the developers to remove cron jobs next time.

Thank you.