John Blackbourn

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<p>WP Crontrol enables you to take control of the scheduled cron events on your WordPress website or WooCommerce store. From the admin screens you can:</p>
<ul>
<li>View all scheduled cron events along with their arguments, schedule, callback functions, and when they are next due.</li>
<li>Edit, delete, pause, resume, and immediately run cron events.</li>
<li>Add new cron events.</li>
<li>Bulk delete cron events.</li>
<li>Add and remove custom cron schedules.</li>
<li>Export and download cron event lists as a CSV file.</li>
</ul>
<p>WP Crontrol is aware of timezones, will alert you to events that have no actions or that have missed their schedule, and will show you a helpful warning message if it detects any problems with your cron system.</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<ol>
<li>Go to the <code>Tools <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Cron Events</code> menu to manage cron events.</li>
<li>Go to the <code>Settings <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Cron Schedules</code> menu to manage cron schedules.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Documentation</h3>
<p><a href="https://wp-crontrol.com/docs/how-to-use/" rel="nofollow ugc">Extensive documentation on how to use WP Crontrol and how to get help for error messages that it shows is available on the WP Crontrol website</a>.</p>
<h3>For site owners</h3>
<p>Owners of WordPress websites and WooCommerce stores use WP Crontrol to ensure that scheduled cron events run correctly and efficiently. By providing complete control over cron events, WP Crontrol helps you:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Improve reliability</strong>: Address missed or failed cron events, ensuring your website or WooCommerce store continues to function as expected.</li>
<li><strong>Enhance security</strong>: Monitor and control cron events to ensure automatic update checks are performed as they should.</li>
<li><strong>Simplify management</strong>: Add, edit, delete, and pause cron events from a user-friendly interface, without needing to write any code.</li>
<li><strong>Gain insights</strong>: Export cron event data for analysis or reporting.</li>
<li><strong>Action Scheduler compatibility</strong>: Full support for the Action Scheduler system in WooCommerce, which is used to process recurring payments, subscriptions, and background orders.</li>
<li><strong>Clarity of times and timezones</strong>: All times are shown with a clear and accurate indication of which timezone applies. No more guesswork!</li>
</ul>
<h3>For developers</h3>
<p>Developers use WP Crontrol to streamline and debug their WordPress development process:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Enhanced debugging</strong>: Identify and troubleshoot issues with scheduled tasks, ensuring your scheduled events and their callbacks run as expected.</li>
<li><strong>Custom schedules</strong>: Create and manage custom cron schedules to fit the specific needs of your website, plugins, or themes, providing greater flexibility than just the core schedules.</li>
<li><strong>Efficient workflow</strong>: Add, edit, and delete cron events directly from the WordPress admin interface, saving time and reducing the need for manual coding.</li>
<li><strong>Insightful monitoring</strong>: Get insight into the performance and behavior of your scheduled tasks, allowing for optimization and better resource management.</li>
<li><strong>Accurate debugging</strong>: WP Crontrol goes to great lengths to ensure that running an event manually does so in a manner which exactly matches how WordPress core runs schdeuled events. This ensures that you can debug events accurately and with confidence.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other Plugins</h3>
<p>I maintain several other plugins for developers. Check them out:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/query-monitor/" rel="ugc">Query Monitor</a> is the developer tools panel for WordPress.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-switching/" rel="ugc">User Switching</a> provides instant switching between user accounts in WordPress.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy Statement</h3>
<p>WP Crontrol is private by default and always will be. It does not send data to any third party, nor does it include any third party resources. <a href="https://wp-crontrol.com/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Crontrol’s full privacy statement can be found here</a>.</p>
<h3>Accessibility Statement</h3>
<p>WP Crontrol aims to be fully accessible to all of its users. <a href="https://wp-crontrol.com/accessibility/" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Crontrol’s full accessibility statement can be found here</a>.</p>


WP Crontrol

I use this plugin all the time when testing cron events or problem solving. As far as I am concerned it is an essential part of a developer's tool kit.

Must have plugin for developers

As everybody else say: This plugin was great, but after releasing an automatic update with a fatal error, about 200 000 sites world-wide went down - among others some of our customers'.

We have no reason to think that this was intentional, but nonetheless it's unacceptable, and there's nothing that says this developer won't do this again.

Do not install.

From great to disaster

Useful tool


WP Crontrol helped me spot a mistake that I made in my wp_schedule call.


Useful tool for cron schedule debugging


This plugin is my personal lifesaver!



Thank you!


Another must-have for any developer!


Like everything from John, this is powerful and incredibly useful debugging tool. Great features, great code, great UI, and great support.


Immensely powerful and useful debugging tool


WP Crontrol is a highly useful WordPress plugin for managing and debugging cron jobs. It offers a simple interface to view, edit, and delete scheduled tasks, making it an essential tool for troubleshooting and optimizing site performance. Perfect for developers who need better control over WordPress's cron system. Highly recommend!


Very useful debugging tool


This plugin is obviously written by a very thoughtful and competent author. It just works, unobtrusive and very easy UI. And the associated website gives invaluable information on various situations which one may encounter. Worth six stars! THANKS John.


Amazing, solid work

WP Crontrol enables you to take control of the cron events on your WordPress website.

Kuba Mikita

BracketSpace

<p><strong>Take full control of your WordPress cron system.</strong> Advanced Cron Manager gives you complete visibility into every scheduled task running on your site — so you can find problems, fix them, and keep your site running smoothly.</p>
<p>WordPress relies on WP-Cron for critical background tasks: sending emails, publishing scheduled posts, running backups, syncing data, and more. But by default, you have zero visibility into what’s happening. Events fail silently, schedules pile up, and debugging is guesswork. Advanced Cron Manager changes that.</p>
<p><strong>What you can do with the free version:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>See every scheduled event</strong> — view all registered cron events with their hooks, arguments, schedules, and next execution times, all in one clean dashboard</li>
<li><strong>Search and filter</strong> — quickly find the event you’re looking for, even on sites with hundreds of cron jobs</li>
<li><strong>Run events manually</strong> — trigger any cron event on demand to test it or force an immediate execution</li>
<li><strong>Pause and resume events</strong> — temporarily disable events without losing their configuration, perfect for troubleshooting</li>
<li><strong>Add and remove events</strong> — create new cron events or unschedule ones you no longer need</li>
<li><strong>Copy-paste PHP implementation</strong> — get ready-to-use code snippets for each event’s action hook and callback</li>
<li><strong>Bulk actions</strong> — manage multiple events at once: remove, pause, or unpause in batch</li>
<li><strong>Manage schedules</strong> — view, add, edit, and remove custom cron schedules (intervals)</li>
<li><strong>Server Scheduler</strong> — disable WP-Cron’s default page-load triggering and get instructions for setting up a real server cron job for more reliable execution</li>
</ul>
<h4>Advanced Cron Manager PRO</h4>
<p>The free version shows you what’s scheduled. <strong>PRO shows you what actually happened.</strong></p>
<p>Without logging and diagnostics, cron issues are invisible until something breaks. PRO gives you the tools to monitor, debug, and optimize every cron job on your site.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Cron Logger</strong> — full execution history with timestamps and status for every event. Know exactly what ran, when it ran, and whether it succeeded or failed.</li>
<li><strong>Performance Stats</strong> — execution time and peak memory usage tracked per event. Spot slow or resource-heavy cron jobs before they become a problem.</li>
<li><strong>Error Catcher</strong> — automatically catches fatal errors thrown by cron callbacks and displays them in the log. No more silent failures.</li>
<li><strong>Debug Tool</strong> — log custom data from inside your cron callbacks using <code>do_action('advanced-cron-manager/log')</code>. Get full visibility into what your code is doing during cron execution.</li>
<li><strong>Event Rescheduling</strong> — change the next execution date and schedule of any event. Shift heavy tasks away from peak hours to balance server load.</li>
<li><strong>Event Listeners</strong> — see every function and method hooked into each cron event. Understand exactly what code runs behind each hook.</li>
<li><strong>Advanced Scheduling (Schyntax)</strong> — go beyond simple intervals. Schedule events for specific times like noon on the last day of the month, only on weekdays, every Tuesday and Friday, and more.</li>
</ul>
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<p><a href="https://bracketspace.com/downloads/advanced-cron-manager-pro/?utm_source=wporg&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=readme" title="Advanced Cron Manager PRO" rel="nofollow ugc">Get Advanced Cron Manager PRO</a></p>
<h4>Good to know about WP-Cron</h4>
<p>WordPress Cron is triggered by page visits, which means scheduled tasks may not run exactly on time on low-traffic sites. For precise timing, use the Server Scheduler feature to set up a real system cron job. Note: custom schedules added by this plugin are only available while the plugin is active. Events you create will continue to exist after deactivation.</p>
<h4>Custom Development</h4>
<p>BracketSpace — the company behind this plugin — provides <a href="https://bracketspace.com/custom-development/" rel="nofollow ugc">custom WordPress plugin development services</a>. We can build any custom plugin for you.</p>


Advanced Cron Manager – debug & control

Thank you for this plugin. I'm liking it better than what I used to use. Excellent interface.

WP Crontrol vs Advanced Cron Manager – debug & control