ianmjones

A little dashboard widget to view the WordPress cron, and run an event now rather than later.
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>.
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<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>
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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>.

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.

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.
<h4>Links</h4>
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.

WP Cron Pixie vs Manual Cron