Manage cron jobs, monitor tasks, retry failures, and send email updates
As of April 2026, Cron Setup and Monitor is a WordPress cron plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 3/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 30K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Downloads are up 30% this week. Top alternative: WP Crontrol.
Effortlessly define and manage cron jobs with execution URLs and WP-Shortcodes. The plugin monitors cron jobs, retries failed executions as needed, and sends status updates via email.
With “Cron Setup and Monitor – Get URL Cron” you can:
* Add, edit, and delete cron jobs to request HTTP URLs or WordPress shortcodes at defined times with various intervals.
* Verify the retrieved result by checking for a required string or JSON field to ensure the HTTP URL or shortcode request was successful.
* Retry the HTTP URL or shortcode request multiple times in case of failures.
* Display all cron jobs in the WordPress installation, including those independent of this plugin.
* Manually execute cron jobs.
* Log requests and show OK or FAIL status: The first log entry records what s…
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| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
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