adelessert

WordPress’s built in cron system is clever, but notoriously unreliable. <a href="https://deadmanssnitch.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Dead Man’s Snitch</a> is a great service for monitoring any sort of scheduled task, and is a simple way to make sure that your WordPress cron jobs are working properly. If WP-Cron isn’t working properly, WordPress might not be updating itself regularly, scheduled posts may turn up late or not at all, and other features you count on might not work.
This plugin simply allows you to store your Snitch URL in the WordPress admin, and requests it once per hour. If Dead Man’s Snitch doesn’t hear from WordPress when it expects to, it’ll send you an email notification.

WP Dead Man’s Snitch

WordPress's built in cron system is clever, but notoriously unreliable.

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.

WP Dead Man’s Snitch vs WP Cron Pixie