WP-Cron Status Checker
If WP-Cron runs important things for you, you better make sure WP-Cron always runs!
3.5(8 reviews)
·5.0K+ active installs·Updated 2 months agoAs of April 2026, WP-Cron Status Checker is a WordPress cron plugin with 5.0K+ active installations and a 3.5/5 rating from 8 reviews. It has been downloaded 118K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are up 20% this week. Support resolution rate: 100%. Top alternative: WP Crontrol.
3.5/58 reviews
5.0K+active installs
100%resolved
10 yearssince 2016
Overview
What happens if WP-Cron stops working?
WordPress, Themes, and Plugins would never know if a new version is out. You could login to your website everyday for months, and never see any notices about updates. If you’re not careful you’ll soon have an out of date WordPress installation susceptible to hackers. Scheduled posts would never get published, auto drafts never deleted… you get the picture. Your website would crumble up and die.
Use Woocommerce? Subscriptions? Customers would never get billed again! Sessions would never be deleted. Scheduled sales would never appear. Your website would become bloated while giving away subscriptions for one time payments.
WP-Cron is important. So make sure it keeps working.
Think of this plugin as insurance, but free. WordPr…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Almost a bait because it requires personnal data
by Maxime Culea·8 months ago
I installed by mistake, intending to use a simple tool to monitor and log WP-Cron activity. It appears, this is now another freemius plugin which seems to me to be a bait, because description and screenshots are not accurate and up to date.
To use this plugin is now required to give all your personnal data or to register/subscribe. This shouldn’t be required for such limited functionality plugin. An unnecessary and intrusive step for something as simple as viewing cron logs
Thankfully, better alternatives exist. Installed by mistake, uninstalling by will.
Not a Cron Status Checker
by chocofc1·1 year ago·1 reply
It does not honor its name, because this plugin only sends you an email if there is a problem with cron execution, but it only does it if cron task is working!! So this tool does not allow you to check if cron task is running at desired interval or many other relevant information. Plus when you enter your email it will be shared with the developer. Pure garbage!
Makes Cron debugging easy
by Jean Werk·5 years ago
This plugin makes debugging easy. Good interface.
it helps a lot
by adriana1987·5 years ago
This helped me a lot, the support team is very responsive and very good.
recommend this plugin.
“You cannot delete a plugin while it is active on the main site.”
by wronski·5 years ago·1 reply
Installed plugin. Didn’t get any status info. Decided to use another plugin, but when try to delete “You cannot delete a plugin while it is active on the main site.”
Download Trends
Today: 22Yesterday: 26This week: 139Period total: 12K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.2
99.2%
Other
0.8%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.2.8
fixed no logging when cron is run with WP CLI.
fixed timezone issue when WordPress timezone setting is set to an integer offset.
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