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Take control of the cron events on your WordPress website

The most trusted cron management plugin for WordPress and WooCommerce, used by over 300,000 websites worldwide.

Simple and powerful management

Use WP Crontrol to view, create, edit, reschedule, pause, delete, export, and immediately run cron events on your site.

For site owners

WP Crontrol is essential for owners of WordPress websites and WooCommerce stores to ensure that scheduled cron events run correctly.

For developers

WP Crontrol is an invaluable tool for developers looking to streamline and debug their WordPress development process.

Trusted by over 300,000 WordPress websites and WooCommerce stores

Everything WP Crontrol can do

Free

See every cron event

View all scheduled cron events along with their arguments, schedule, registered callback functions, and exactly when they are next due to run.

Free

Edit, run, pause & delete

Edit, delete, and immediately run cron events from the admin. Pause and resume events to reliably stop them running even when plugins try to reschedule them.

Free

Add new cron events

Schedule new standard cron events in a few clicks. Choose a hook name, a schedule, and any arguments, then hook up your callback in PHP to run code on your chosen interval.

Free

PHP and URL cron events

Create events that execute a snippet of PHP code or request a URL on a recurring schedule. Perfect for quick tasks without needing to write a plugin, and all gated behind strict user permission requirements.

Free

Export and bulk actions

Export and download the full cron event list as a CSV file to open in any spreadsheet, and bulk delete multiple events at once.

Free

Manage cron schedules

Add and remove custom cron schedules from the Settings → Cron Schedules screen so your events can run at exactly the intervals you need.

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Pro

Full logging of cron event runs

WP Crontrol Pro records every cron event run so you finally have a complete history of what ran, when, and how it finished. No more guessing what your scheduled tasks are doing.

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Pro

Warnings for cron event errors

WP Crontrol Pro alert you when a cron event produces an error or fails to complete, so you can catch broken scheduled tasks before they cause problems.

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Pro

Performance metrics & insights

WP Crontrol Pro provides historical metrics for cron performance, graphical insights into event density, and visibility into the busiest hotspots throughout the week.

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Pro

WP-CLI integration

The wp crontrol commands in WP Crontrol Pro complement the built-in commands to give you full visibility into your cron event logs from the command line

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Enterprise tested

WP Crontrol has been tested and used at scale for years on enterprise WordPress platforms including Altis and WordPress VIP.

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