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.

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.

WP Cron Pixie vs WP-Cron Control