by John Blackbourn
4.5 (163 reviews)
WP Crontrol
WP Crontrol enables you to take control of the cron events on your WordPress website.
Compatible with WP 6.9
v1.21.0
Current Version v1.21.0
Updated 2 months ago
Last Update on 28 Jan, 2026
Refreshed 6 hours ago
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- Version
- 1.21.0
- Last Updated
- Jan 28, 2026
- Requires WP
- 6.4+
- Tested Up To
- 6.9
- PHP Version
- 7.4 or higher
- Author
- John Blackbourn
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about WP Crontrol
Yes, it's actively tested and working up to PHP 8.4.
You can read all about problems spawning WP-Cron on the WP Crontrol website.
You can read all about cron events that miss their schedule on the WP Crontrol website.
If the event is added by a plugin then the plugin most likely rescheduled the event as soon as it saw that the event was missing. To get around this you can instead use the "Pause this hook" action which means it'll remain in place but won't perform any action when it runs.
This depends entirely on the event. You can use your favourite search engine to search for the event name in order to find out which plugin it belongs to, and then decide whether or not to delete it. If the event shows "None" as its action then it's usually safe to delete. Please see the other FAQs for more information about events with no action.
The WordPress core software uses cron events for some of its functionality and removing these events is not possible because WordPress would immediately reschedule them if you did delete them. For this reason, WP Crontrol doesn't let you delete these persistent events from WordPress core in the first place. If you don't want these events to run, you can use the "Pause this hook" action instead.
Pausing an event will disable all actions attached to the event's hook. The event itself will remain in place and will run according to its schedule, but all actions attached to its hook will be disabled. This renders the event inoperative but keeps it scheduled so as to remain fully compatible with events which would otherwise get automatically rescheduled when they're missing. As pausing an event actually pauses its hook, all events that use the same hook will be paused or resumed when pausing and resuming an event. This is much more useful and reliable than pausing individual events separately.
Resuming an event re-enables all actions attached to the event's hook. All events that use the same hook will be resumed.
This means the cron event is scheduled to run at the specified time but there is no corresponding functionality that will be triggered when the event runs, therefore the event is useless. You can read all about events with no action on the WP Crontrol website.
You can change the time and schedule of a cron event by clicking the "Edit" link next to the event.