by John Blackbourn 4.5 (165 reviews)

WP Crontrol

Name: WP Crontrol
Rating: 4.5 (165 reviews)
Author: John Blackbourn

Take control of the cron events on your WordPress website or WooCommerce store with WP Crontrol.

WP Crontrol ranks #172 among WordPress.org plugins with 300,000+ active installations, is #28 of 4,942 in the Utilities & Tools category, a 4.5/5 rating from 165 reviews, and was last updated Aug 29, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v1.21.2 Current Version v1.21.2

Updated 2 weeks ago Last Update on 29 Aug, 2026

Refreshed 9 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#28 of 4,942 in Utilities & Tools Top 1% by installs Downloads -44.1% this week Actively maintained

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7.6M

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Support Resolved

75%

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90%

Review 4.5 out of 5

4.5 (165 reviews)

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

5 known vulnerabilities on record · 1 in the last 24 months · checked 1 week ago

Aug 19, 2025

WP Crontrol [wp-crontrol] < 1.19.2

CVE-2025-8678 · Fixed in v1.19.2
Mar 24, 2024

WP Crontrol [wp-crontrol] < 1.16.2

CVE-2024-28850 · Fixed in v1.16.2
Aug 21, 2015

WP Crontrol [wp-crontrol] < 1.3

Fixed in v1.3
Aug 21, 2015

WP Crontrol [wp-crontrol] < 1.3

Fixed in v1.3
WP Crontrol [wp-crontrol] < 1.3

Fixed in v1.3

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.21.2
Last Updated: Aug 29, 2026
Requires WP: 6.6+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: John Blackbourn

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Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5
Reviews: 165
Support Threads: 4
Resolved: 75%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners and developers who need to manage scheduled cron events, including those using WooCommerce's Action Scheduler. It solves the problem of missed, failed, or hard-to-debug cron events by giving full visibility and control over scheduling from the WordPress admin.

View scheduled cron events
Edit, delete, pause, resume events
Run cron events immediately
Add new cron events
Bulk delete cron events
Add and remove custom schedules
Export cron events to CSV
Action Scheduler compatibility

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.