WP Crontrol
WP Crontrol enables you to take control of the cron events on your WordPress website.
4.5(163 reviews)
·300K+ active installs·Updated 2 months agoAs of April 2026, WP Crontrol is a WordPress cron plugin with 300K+ active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 163 reviews. It has been downloaded 7.6M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.4+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2008. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are down 7% this week. Support resolution rate: 100%. Top alternative: Missed Scheduled Posts Publisher by….
4.5/5163 reviews
300K+active installs
100%resolved
18 yearssince 2008
Overview
WP Crontrol enables you to take control of the scheduled cron events on your WordPress website or WooCommerce store. From the admin screens you can:
- View all scheduled cron events along with their arguments, schedule, callback functions, and when they are next due.
- Edit, delete, pause, resume, and immediately run cron events.
- Add new cron events.
- Bulk delete cron events.
- Add and remove custom cron schedules.
- Export and download cron event lists as a CSV file.
WP Crontrol is aware of timezones, will alert you to events that have no actions or that have missed their schedule, and will show you a helpful warning message if it detects any problems with your cron system.
Usage
- Go to the
Tools → Cron Eventsmenu to manage cron events. - Go to the
Settings → Cron Schedulesmenu to manage cron s…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Hmm. Nothing actually deletes
by patboran·1 month ago·4 replies
Not currently working for me, but developer points out that the issue is probably at my site rather than with the app. Which I will, of course, look into.
- This topic was modified 1 month, 3 weeks ago by patboran.
Must-Use Plugin
by eLmore·1 month ago
Always use this plugin to debug my cron jobs. It’s extremely simple and easy to use.
Works
by kloddant·2 months ago
Does what it is supposed to.
Life saver
by orangeracoon·4 months ago
during last summer, I was having an almost impossible problem of my tables that would Stop rendering after around 24 hours, initially I thought it was a Cloudflare issue , so I spent weeks excluding rules from caching. It was not until I installed WPCron did it learn that Elementor was running one particular Cron job that were completely unrelated to any of the material or topic which was breaking the rendering of the tables . I literally worked on addressing this bug on and off for several months .
it was eye opening to see the number of Cron jobs that WordPress plugins run . And for a a free plugin , I think it is a must have tool to have , I would even consider making it part of core.
Thank You . 😊
A way to see, create, remove and pause WordPress Cron Jobs.
by Farzad·7 months ago
I Mainly use it to watch how my Cron Jobs are working.
- This topic was modified 7 months, 2 weeks ago by Farzad.
Download Trends
Today: 2KYesterday: 3KThis week: 21KPeriod total: 2.0M
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.4+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.21
52.4%
Other
23.3%
v1.19
18.3%
v1.20
6.0%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.21.0 (28 January 2026)
- Adds support for invalid args in cron events by relaxing the strict typing and showing a warning on the listing and editing screens.
1.20.0 (17 December 2025)
- Confirms support for WordPress 6.9
- Minor UI and UX improvements
- Some architectural changes to prepare for future enhancements
1.19.3 (23 October 2025)
- Corrects the handling of closures as cron event actions.
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