Run WP Cron Weekly (but on a certain day)

WP-Cron is not intended to be that precise, and should not be used if you have to have things scheduled at specific times. WP-Cron is a “best effort” scheduling mechanism, and it cannot guarantee run timing like a real cron system can.

If you need precision of this nature, the only real answer is to not use WP-Cron for it. It’s not designed for that, and it cannot do it. Any hacky code you attempt to add to it to make it capable of this won’t fix that underlying problem.

Use a real cron system.

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