Advanced Cron Manager – debug & control
View, pause, remove, edit and add WP Cron events and schedules.
4.7(38 reviews)
·30K+ active installs·Updated 3 weeks agoAs of April 2026, Advanced Cron Manager is a WordPress cron plugin with 30K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 38 reviews. It has been downloaded 809K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 5.3+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 21% this week. Support resolution rate: 100%. Top alternative: WP Crontrol.
4.7/538 reviews
30K+active installs
100%resolved
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
Take full control of your WordPress cron system. 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.
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.
What you can do with the free version:
- See every scheduled event — view all registered cron events with their hooks, arguments, schedules, and next execution times, all in one clean dashboard
- Search and filter — quickly find the event you’re looking…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Amazing help for manging crons in batches
by alufhakidum·1 year ago·1 reply
Such a useful and helpful plugin!
We’ve been doing so many apis batches and crons and this plugin is just amazing and helping us control all our crons nicely and easily.
The support team are also useful and great. I highly recommend this plugin.
thanks guys keep up the good work
Dashboard Crashed
by CypressWebs·1 year ago·1 reply
The dashboard is all messed up and can’t use it. Even disabled all other plugins to see if conflict.
A must have
by mrdumont·2 years ago·1 reply
This is the essential tool for managing your WP cron jobs. It works very well and support is great.
The Pro version adds useful tools for my more complex projects.
Excellent service
by KirstyP·2 years ago·1 reply
Really helpful support team and useful plugin
Solved Deactivated Plugins Actions
by Reinaldo·4 years ago·1 reply
After several weeks of trying to solve issues with SMTP problems and Action Schedulers, I fund this plugin.
The solution to logs in SMTP and stuck action schedules was deleting old plugins actions calls that I only found in the cron job tool of this plugin. I deleted and the problems were solved.
Rgds.
Download Trends
Today: 233Yesterday: 327This week: 2KPeriod total: 105K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.3+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.7
31.8%
v2.6
30.9%
v2.5
27.3%
v2.4
6.9%
Other
3.2%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.7.0
- [Changed] Event hash no longer includes next execution timestamp, making it stable across reschedulings
- [Fixed] “In queue” cron events failing to delete, run, or pause with “wrong_nonce” error
- [Fixed] Bulk actions (remove, pause, unpause) failing due to parallel AJAX race conditions
- [Fixed] Undefined $errors variable when removing non-protected events
- [Security] Added nonce verification to rerender AJAX endpoints to prevent CSRF
…and 2 more changes
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