Title: Plugin Updated: Async Publish Actions
Author: WordPress VIP Documentation
Published: February 23, 2021
Last modified: August 5, 2025

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# Plugin Updated: Async Publish Actions

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 23 February 2021

16:58:53 GMT+0000

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This change removes the creation of async post publish cron jobs if they are not
being utilized. If the relevant hooks _are_ in use, the cron jobs will continue 
to be created normally.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1999](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1999)