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.

Automattic

Mohammad Jangda

Erick Hitter

Thorsten Ott

This plugin allows you to take control over the execution of cron jobs. It’s mainly useful for sites that either don’t get enough comments to ensure a frequent execution of wp-cron or for sites where the execution of cron via regular methods can cause race conditions resulting in multiple execution of wp-cron at the same time. It can also help when you run into posts that missed their schedule.
This plugin implements a secret parameter and ensures that cron jobs are only executed when this parameter is existing.
<h3>Limitations</h3>
This plugin performs a <code>remove_action( 'sanitize_comment_cookies', 'wp_cron' );</code> call in order to disable the spawning of new cron processes via the regular WordPress method. If <code>wp_cron</code> is hooked in an other action or called directly this might cause trouble.

WP-Cron Control

This plugin allows you to take control over the execution of cron jobs.

What The Cron vs WP-Cron Control