ianmjones

<p>A little dashboard widget to view the WordPress cron, and run an event now rather than later.</p>
<p>This plugin was built for the <a href="https://deliciousbrains.com/building-reactive-wordpress-plugins/" rel="nofollow ugc">Building Reactive WordPress Plugins</a> series of articles on the <a href="https://deliciousbrains.com/blog/" rel="nofollow ugc">Delicious Brains Blog</a>.</p>
<ol>
<li><a href="https://deliciousbrains.com/building-reactive-wordpress-plugins-part-1-backbone-js/" rel="nofollow ugc">Building Reactive WordPress Plugins – Part 1 – Backbone.js</a></li>
<li><a href="https://deliciousbrains.com/building-reactive-wordpress-plugins-part-2-vue-js/" rel="nofollow ugc">Building Reactive WordPress Plugins – Part 2 – Vue.js</a></li>
<li><a href="https://deliciousbrains.com/building-reactive-wordpress-plugins-part-3-elm/" rel="nofollow ugc">Building Reactive WordPress Plugins – Part 3 – Elm</a></li>
</ol>
<p>The current version is using <a href="https://ianmjones.com/2025/06/wp-cron-pixie-v1-5-0-released-front-end-switched-from-elm-to-gleam/" rel="nofollow ugc">Gleam on the front end</a>.</p>


WP Cron Pixie

Works great listing all the cron tasks. Combining this with WP Cron Control.

Nice dashboard widget.

A little dashboard widget to view the WordPress cron.

EasyCron

<p>EasyCron (https://www.easycron.com) provides reliable online cron job service worldwide. Its insanely easy-to-use webcron have helped thousands of users who’re fastidious on task scheduling perfectly configure cron jobs.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Support Cron expression, and the year field (<a href="https://www.easycron.com/faq/What-cron-expression-does-easycron-support" rel="nofollow ugc">cron expression guide</a>)</li>
<li>Email otifications</li>
<li>Slack notifications</li>
<li>Webhook callbacks</li>
<li>Cron job execution logs</li>
<li>Time prediction of executions.</li>
<li>Customize schedule timezone</li>
</ul>
<h3>Questions & Answers</h3>
<h4>Is EasyCron free?</h4>
<p>EasyCron offers a free forever plan (you just need to go to https://www.easycron.com/user/plan to renew the free plan monthly).<br />
You may also upgrade to a premium plan which has some advanced features and will automatically get renewed yearly.</p>


Easycron

Utilize EasyCron's API to configure a cron job that will trigger WordPress's cron script (wp-cron.php) periodically.

WP Cron Pixie vs Easycron