The Postie plugin doesn't always grab new mail, especially on lower-volume sites. So this plugin creates a CRON command line to force Postie  …
As of April 2026, Multisite Postie CRON Creator is a WordPress cron plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 2.6K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.9.6+ and PHP 5.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Last updated 2 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP Crontrol.
We created this plugin to create the command file needed to ensure that the Postie process to convert emails to posts will run often enough. This is especially useful for low-volume sites.
Although written for our multisite installations, you can use this on single sites too. If you add/subtract multisites, run this plugin again to update your site list.
Make sure that you test the CRON command once before letting it run every xx minutes. Contact your hosting place, or site admins, for help with enabling and testing CRON commands.
| WordPress | 4.9.6+ requiredTested up to 6.4.8 |
| PHP | 5.4+ required |
Version 1.02 (18 Nov 2023)
Version 1.01 (25 Nov 2019)
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