Disable Shopware 6 Admin Worker

Initial situation

In Shopware 6 Standard, the so-called Admin Worker is active and must be deactivated in the production system and instead 2 cronjobs must be set up, which regularly execute the message queue and the scheduled tasks.

Our plugin makes it easy to deactivate the Admin Worker and reactivate it if needed.

Please note

You have to set up the cronjobs for the Message Queue and the Scheduled Tasks at the hoster - our plugin can't do that!

More info about Admin Worker
In the default configuration of Shopware 6, all background work is done in the administration as soon as you log in.

This leads to two major disadvantages:

• The loading times in the administration can slow down a lot, because parallel to your own work, the background work is also executed.   
  

• As long as no admin logs in, the background work is not executed, but collected until an admin logs in again - this can lead to large unprocessed data. This can lead to performance losses of your online store.

More information about Admin Worker and how to disable it without this plugin:

https://developer.shopware.com/docs/guides/plugins/plugins/framework/message-queue/add-message-handler#admin-worker

Set up cronjobs at your hoster (every 5 minutes)

https://docs.shopware.com/en/shopware-6-en/tutorials-and-faq/message-queue-and-scheduled-tasks

Check Message Queue and Scheduled Tasks

Since there is no overview of running / pending tasks available in Shopware 6 Standard, the developers of Friends of Shopware have developed an interesting plugin: https://store.shopware.com/frosh12599847132f/tools.html