Best cron plugins for WordPress

WP Cron Pixie

Up in the last 7 days:371#32,726

by ianmjones2 months ago

A little dashboard widget to view the WordPress cron.

MultiSite System Cron

#33,022

by Pau Iglesias11 years ago

For WordPress MultiSite installs, allows accurate and private system crontab requests instead of classic WP-Cron.

EZ Backup

Up in the last 7 days:333#33,133

by Eli11 years ago

Keep your database safe with scheduled backups. Multiple option for off-site backups also available.

FHDCU Dynamic Counter Update

Up in the last 7 days:1,443#34,488

by forkanhossain3 months ago

A dynamic counter plugin that increments by a random value every minute and saves it in the database for display anywhere on your site.

DMValdez Cron Auditor

Up in the last 7 days:13,913#34,491

by donaldmvaldez3 months ago

See every WP-Cron job on your site in one dashboard, run or pause any of them on demand, and track how long each one actually takes to run.

LMN Site Monitor

#34,613

by Francisco Moreno1 month ago

A lightweight WordPress uptime and SSL monitoring plugin with email alerts, ECharts performance charts (2D/3D), and dashboard widget.

BI Clean Cache

Up in the last 7 days:12,027#36,121

by Jayesh Mahajan10 years ago

Plugin to run/set cron to clean Autoptimize plugin cache files

Hit An External Cron

Up in the last 7 days:1,559#38,773

by Aaron Jorbin16 years ago

Use wordpress's internal cron system to hit an external cron on a daily basis

Scheduled Jobs Dashboad Widget

Up in the last 7 days:5,818#38,887

by Frank Neumann-Staude12 years ago

The dashboard widget shows the next jobs from the wordpress scheduler.

WP Cron per Action

Up in the last 7 days:6,639#39,679

by miunosoft10 years ago

Ensures that wp-cron.php is loaded per executing action to avoid exceeding the PHP's maximum execution time.

Manual Cron

Down in the last 7 days:4,381#41,381

by Viktor Szépe11 years ago

Triggers WP-cron from a Dashboard widget and displays output.

Ultimate WP DB Manager

Down in the last 7 days:7,052#42,369

by wphobby6 months ago

Ultimate WP DB Manager make it easy to create database backup on single click, allows you to clean database, optimize database, make these jobs schedu …

Tuyul Ninja

Up in the last 7 days:3,920#43,075

by nusagates5 years ago

Tuyul Ninja enables you to send wordpress post to available providers via cronjob.

Automatic SPAM Eraser

#45,183

by prondzyn1 month ago

The plugin is adding a new WP-Cron event which automatically removes all spam comments older than 7 days.

scbFramework

#45,466

by scribu13 years ago

A set of useful classes for faster plugin development.

What The Cron

Down in the last 7 days:8,266#45,916

by Gilbert Pellegrom7 years ago

Is my WordPress cron running? What The Cron answers that question.

Basic Dev Tools

Down in the last 7 days:6,812#46,880

by Rodrigo Techera11 years ago

A plugin with some Basic Tools For Development and Developers. Trying to be easier the way of develop common things in WP

Cron Debug Log

Down in the last 7 days:1,697#47,243

by Ron Rennick14 years ago

A rudimentary plugin for debugging cron.

Change WP Cron Request URL

Down in the last 7 days:12,509#47,367

by PRESSMAN6 years ago

This plugin changes the request url when wp-cron executed.

WpLoadGraph

Down in the last 7 days:3,120#47,684

by Tekod lab.7 months ago

Stress testing tool for logging and measuring all requests to your WordPress website and displaying in timeline format.

Signups Cron

Up in the last 7 days:9,049#49,631

by scottmotion1 year ago

Manage WordPress user signups via WP-Cron.

Geos

#51,546

by Georgijevic2 months ago

Batched WooCommerce product cleanup with separate operations, progress bars, and a safe Trash Cleaner.

TSO Swiss Knife

Up in the last 7 days:6,170#52,825

by deadkotoday

Admin toolkit with 40+ modules for cron, debug, security, database, redirects, roles, maintenance, staging copies, and site health reports.

Re{code} Cron Viewer

#53,850

by re{code}commerce9 months ago

A lightweight WordPress plugin to view and debug all scheduled WP-Cron tasks.

Cronheart

Down in the last 7 days:362#54,362

by cronheart4 days ago

Dead-man-switch monitoring for WP-Cron: a site heartbeat plus start, success and fail pings per event. Get alerted when scheduled jobs stop running.

Cart Expiration Per Product

Up in the last 7 days:16,114#54,873

by Sajidul Islam11 months ago

Automatically remove WooCommerce cart items after a custom or global time period.

CronVitals

#55,622

by codynaut13 days ago

Cron job monitoring for WordPress. Know when a WP-Cron job fails, misses its run, or dies on a PHP fatal, with the error and an email alert.

M7tawa Impact Monitor

Up in the last 7 days:16,297#56,779

by Ayman Abdullah1 month ago

Monitor measurable extension impact on WordPress without deleting or changing site data.

SP Cron Viewer

Down in the last 7 days:7,273#57,520

by saurabh18105 months ago

Securely view and manage scheduled WordPress cron events from Tools -> SP Cron Viewer.

StoreClarity for WooCommerce

Up in the last 7 days:6,123#58,588

by solvatanaka27 days ago

Investigate delayed WooCommerce background tasks and checkout-page setup with a local, read-only scan and clear next steps.

Qndrs Availability and Heartbeat Monitor

Up in the last 7 days:3,629#59,006

by Qndrs16 days ago

Monitor websites and heartbeat clients from WordPress with email or Pushover downtime alerts.

CronEngine

#60,719

by CronEngine11 days ago

Run WP-Cron on a real schedule. Scheduled posts, emails and backups run on time, even when nobody visits your site.

AMG Labs Cron Inspector

Down in the last 7 days:11,394#61,161

by amglabs2 months ago

A lightweight admin tool to inspect, monitor, and manually trigger WordPress cron events.

Multisite Event Sync

#61,175

by AHK Softwaregutachten.at e.U.1 year ago

Synchronizes events from subsites in a WordPress Multisite network into the main site's calendar (The Events Calendar plugin).

GoTasks Content Scheduler

Up in the last 7 days:7,779#61,353

by gotasks2 months ago

Schedule reserved updates for posts and pages with backups, restore support, logs, selected ACF field support, and optional external cron execution.

Recordar for Bluesky & Mastodon

Up in the last 7 days:9,426#62,314

by JRMora2 months ago

Automate archive (Ephemeris) & new posts to Bluesky & Mastodon. Includes scheduling, lists, editorial control and multi-language support.

Clicks Site Monitoring and Audit Logs

Up in the last 7 days:7,439#62,802

by sykologicist3 months ago

Monitor WP-Cron jobs, log PHP errors, and track user activity with real-time alerts to Slack, Discord, or email. Zero telemetry.

Email Scheduling

Down in the last 7 days:4,166#63,031

by Krunal Bhimajiyani4 years ago

Send the custom email to the logged in users.

ScheduleLens

#63,420

by Monowar Hossain (devmonowar)9 days ago

See all scheduled jobs, catch overdue tasks, run or pause events, and check cron health - lightweight, admin-only, 100% free.

Nariyanto Cron Diagnostics

#63,481

by nariyanto5 months ago

Find duplicate, stuck, and suspicious WordPress cron events before they cause support issues.

Vigilant Healthchecks

Down in the last 7 days:13,817#63,810

by vincentbean10 months ago

A WordPress plugin that provides healthchecks to your WordPress site that integrate seamlessly with Vigilant (https://govigilant.io).

PRBLEM Sweep

#63,871

by PRBLEM2 months ago

Safe WordPress cleanup intelligence for database clutter, media, cron signals, plugin leftovers and guarded cleanup.

SpritesFeed

Down in the last 7 days:8,534#65,047

by sprites8 years ago

SpritesFeed is a social feed plugin that allows you to setup your API's and fetch posts from your Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Youtube or Flickr …

Web Plura Operation Guard

#65,373

by Web Plura4 days ago

Check maintenance, update readiness, cron, REST, forms, leads, and site-system signals from one local dashboard.

Cronjob.de

Down in the last 7 days:1,838#65,514

by cronjobde28 days ago

Run WP-Cron on a fixed schedule instead of on page views – set up in two minutes, with a safe fallback and an optional heartbeat.

TaskBeacon

#67,161

by Roopesh.Bahreetoday

Monitor WordPress scheduled tasks and background processes from one simple dashboard.

ModuleFest Cron Monitor

Down in the last 7 days:7,877#67,219

by modulefesttoday

See what WP-Cron is doing: profile every scheduled task, stop overlapping runs, recover stalled tasks and drive cron from a real scheduler.

Harvify Cron Monitor

Down in the last 7 days:5,375#67,315

by harv2 days ago

Monitor, manage, and troubleshoot WordPress cron — with execution history, overdue/missed/broken-cron detection, and Action Scheduler visibility.

PCIO VIS With Unitii

Down in the last 7 days:511#67,644

by Niels Olsen20 days ago

Synchronises volunteers, events and shifts from Unitii into PCIO VIS Member Event via a scheduled cron job.

CronWatch

#67,925

by joncphillips16 days ago

Watches WP-Cron: records every scheduled event's runs and tells you when one is missed, fails, gets stuck, or runs slow.