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The Show schedule cron jobs screen lists the automated email and SMS sends you’ve scheduled for your rota. When you set up an auto email or auto SMS of a service schedule, WordPress creates a background task (a “cron job”) to send it at the right time — this page shows you all those tasks in one place, so you can check what’s queued and cancel any you no longer want.
Finding the page
Go to the Schedule (Rota) tab and open Show schedule cron jobs. It’s a diagnostic screen — you don’t set anything up here, it simply reports what’s already scheduled.
What the table shows
Each row is one scheduled send, with four columns:
- Delete — cancels that scheduled send (see below).
- Email/SMS — whether it’s an email send or an SMS send.
- Next send — the date and time the next send is due.
- Which service — the service it relates to, with its venue, frequency and time, so you can tell which schedule each job belongs to.
If nothing is listed
If you haven’t set up any automated sends yet, the page tells you there are no cron jobs to email or SMS the schedule, and offers buttons to set up auto email of schedule or auto SMS of schedule. Use those to create your first automated send.
Cancelling a scheduled send
Click Delete on a row to remove that scheduled email or SMS. This stops that particular automated send from running — it doesn’t change the underlying service or schedule, just the task that was set to send it out. If you want it back later, set the auto email or auto SMS up again.
SMS needs to be set up
If you have SMS sends scheduled but no SMS provider configured, the page warns you in red that those SMS sends will fail, with a button to set up SMS. Auto SMS relies on your SMS provider being connected, so sort that out if you see the warning — see SMS settings.
A note on WordPress cron
WordPress cron jobs run when someone visits your site, so a very quiet site can occasionally run a scheduled send slightly late. If timing is critical for you, ask your host about setting up a real system cron to trigger WordPress reliably — but for most churches the standard behaviour is perfectly fine.