Not an engineer so apologies if some of these terms are wrong. I had a wordpress site with the default cron settings, which from my understanding meant that wp-cron.php was triggered to run whenever someone visited the site. My site was low traffic, so if nobody had visited in a while then the first page load would be very slow due to the cron job. Subsequent loads were very fast.
I disabled wp-cron created a scheduled cron job following this article: [https://themeisle.com/blog/disable-wp-cron/#gref](https://themeisle.com/blog/disable-wp-cron/#gref). Didn’t seem to cause the problems to go away entirely. THEN I noticed that the “cron” row in my wp-options table was still set to autoload = yes. Does that mean wp-cron.php is still running on every page load despite me having added `define(‘DISABLE_WP_CRON’, true);` to my wp-config.php file? Would setting `autoload = “no”` for the cron row in my wp-options table solve this problem?
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