Best cron manager plugins for WordPress
The most popular cron manager plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Advanced Cron Manager leads with 30K+ active installs, ahead of amr cron manager (100+) and Advanced Cron Scheduler for WordPress (100+). All 4 plugins tagged “cron manager” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 4 cron manager plugins
- 1.Advanced Cron Manager
The most installed cron manager plugin, with 30K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 39 reviews, updated 7 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 2.
amr cron manager100+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.5.24.
- 3.
Advanced Cron Scheduler for WordPress100+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 4.ShieldClimb
20+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
All 4 plugins tagged “cron manager”
Advanced Cron Manager
Up in the last 7 days:4#1,036by Kuba Mikita8 months ago
View, pause, remove, edit and add WP Cron events and schedules.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.7(39)
- Downloads
- 183/day

amr cron manager
Down in the last 7 days:54#14,003by anmari6 years ago
Overview of wp cron jobs in the site's timezone. The lists show if the action exists and any arguments to the cron job.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Advanced Cron Scheduler for WordPress
Down in the last 7 days:79#14,370by Sayan Datta1 year ago
The Advanced Cron Scheduler for WordPress plugin helps to easily replace or migrate Native WordPress Cron to the Action Scheduler Library.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
ShieldClimb
Up in the last 7 days:51#28,105by ShieldClimb2 months ago
Fix Pending and Past-due Tasks for WooCommerce – Speed up order processing, prevent stuck scheduled tasks, and optimize performance.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day