Gilbert Pellegrom

What The Cron is a lightweight plugin that seeks to answer the question “is my WordPress cron running?”.
What The Cron adds a WordPress admin Tools page that displays WP-Cron specific config values, schedules, and events. It also runs a ping every minute to check if the cron is running and will show a warning if there seems to be an issue as well as displaying which events are overdue.

What The Cron


Great simple plugin to display listing of cron tasks. 


Simple and complete

Is my WordPress cron running? What The Cron answers that question.

Viktor Szépe

Execute WP-cron manually by clicking a button on the Dashboard. 
WP-cron is WordPress’ scheduler system, it can execute background jobs like plugin updates.
Manual Cron is a Dashboard widget available for every user.
If you have poorly written plugins WP-cron’s output may not be empty.
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Development goes on on <a href="https://github.com/szepeviktor/manual-cron" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.

Manual Cron

Triggers WP-cron from a Dashboard widget and displays output.

What The Cron vs Manual Cron