Watches over scheduled posts, and makes sure they don't miss their scheduled time
As of April 2026, Scheduled Post Guardian is a WordPress cron plugin with 70 active installations and a 2.8/5 rating from 9 reviews. It has been downloaded 10K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.2+ and PHP 7.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 2 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP Crontrol.
Some WordPress sites have problems with scheduled posts, where they don’t get published at the right time. Instead they appear as “missed schedule”. This plugin monitors scheduled posts, and makes sure that doesn’t happen.
| WordPress | 5.2+ requiredTested up to 6.4.8 |
| PHP | 7.2+ required |
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