Use wordpress's internal cron system to hit an external cron on a daily basis
As of April 2026, Hit An External Cron is a WordPress cron plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 4.0K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.9.2+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 16 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP Crontrol.
Some hosts suck. They don’t include basic things like cron that plenty of scripts need. Luckily for us, we can mimic wget http://example.com with this plugin. It’s about as simple as plugins get, but should make your life a bit easier.
| WordPress | 2.9.2+ requiredTested up to 4.6.30 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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