Best deadman-switch plugins for WordPress
The most popular deadman-switch plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Cronheart leads with fewer than 10 active installs, ahead of Accelvia Uptime Monitor (fewer than 10). All 2 plugins tagged “deadman-switch” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 2 deadman-switch plugins
- 1.
CronheartThe most installed deadman-switch plugin, with fewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 3 days ago.
- 2.
Accelvia Uptime MonitorFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 5 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
All 2 plugins tagged “deadman-switch”
Cronheart
Down in the last 7 days:362#54,362by cronheart3 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.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Accelvia Uptime Monitor
#68,540by Md Musfiqur Rahman5 months ago
A self-hosted WordPress uptime monitoring plugin with dual-layer architecture, SSL tracking, defacement detection, and multi-channel alerting.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day