Maintenance 70/10029d since update
Active installs
10
Downloads
2,892
Reviews
1
Age
8.9y
Tagswidgetadmindashboardcronwp cron
Plugin info
Total downloads: 2,892
Active installs: 10
Total reviews: 1
Average rating: 5
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 1 language(s)
Contributors: 2
Last updated: 12/1/2025 (29 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 2/9/2017 (8 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 6.0
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.9
Minimum PHP version: 7.4
Maintenance & Compatibility
Maintenance score
Actively maintained • Last updated 29 days ago • 1 reviews
70/100
Is WP Cron Pixie abandoned?
Likely maintained (last update 29 days ago).
Compatibility
Requires WordPress: 6.0
Tested up to: 6.9
Requires PHP: 7.4
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Description
A little dashboard widget to view the WordPress cron, and run an event now rather than later.
This plugin was built for the Building Reactive WordPress Plugins series of articles on the Delicious Brains Blog.
- Building Reactive WordPress Plugins – Part 1 – Backbone.js
- Building Reactive WordPress Plugins – Part 2 – Vue.js
- Building Reactive WordPress Plugins – Part 3 – Elm
The current version is using Gleam on the front end.
Installation
From your WordPress dashboard
- Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’
- Search for ‘WP Cron Pixie’
- Activate WP Cron Pixie from your Plugins page.
From WordPress.org
- Download WP Cron Pixie.
- Upload the ‘wp-cron-pixie’ directory to your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory, using your favourite method (ftp, sftp, scp, etc…)
- Activate WP Cron Pixie from your Plugins page.
Frequently Asked Questions
42
Review feed
Bowo
Nice dashboard widget.
Works great listing all the cron tasks. Combining this with WP Cron Control.
Screenshots
WP Cron Pixie widget.
Searching for a cron schedule.
Searching for a cron event.
Changelog
1.6.2
- Fixed compatibility with PHP 7.4.
- Updated dependencies.
1.6.1
- Example events setting is now saved for each subsite in a multisite install.
1.6.0
- Added search of schedules and events.
- Added display of event hook with args when mouse hovers over event name.
- Auto refresh setting is now saved for each user.
1.5.0
- Gleam front end.
- Fixed “Error message: Event schedule does not exist.” debug.log messages when example events enabled.
- Fixed example events not being removed from cron schedules after turning them off.
- Tested with WP 6.8
- Requires WP 6.0+
- Requires PHP 7.4+
1.4.4
- Updated dependencies.
- Tested with WP 6.5
1.4.3
- Tested with WP 6.4
1.4.2
- Fixed dashboard widget trying to run at network level in a multisite.
- Tested with WP 6.1
1.4.1
- Fixed wrong data refreshing into non-primary subsite of directory multisite.
- Minor updates to framework and build tools.
- Tested with WP 5.4
1.4
- Added checkbox to control whether example cron events should be added to cron.
- Added checkbox to control whether the display should auto refresh.
- Added “Refresh” icon for manual refresh of data.
- Fixed not all strings in UI being translatable.
- Elm 0.19 front end.
1.3.1
- Minor updates to framework and build tools.
- Tested with WP 4.9.8.
1.3
- Elm 0.18 front end.
1.2
- Elm front end.
1.1
- Vue.js front end.
1.0
- Initial release.
- Backbone.js front end.