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WP Crontrol

WP Crontrol

Site Management Scheduled Tasks & Cron Management

WP Crontrol is a WordPress plugin for Scheduled Tasks & Cron Management. It ranks #1 of 13 in that group by active installs and was last updated 3 weeks ago.

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Slug wp-crontrol

300K Active installs As the directory reports it, rounded to a band
4.4 Rating out of 5 From 167 ratings
59 Releases Since 6 January 2008
Oct 2026 Last release 3 weeks ago

Maintenance check

Is WP Crontrol still maintained?

Yes - by every measure the directory publishes, it is actively maintained.

  • Updated recently. The last release was 3 weeks ago.
  • Tested with current WordPress. Tested up to 7.1.4; most actively maintained plugins are tested on 7.1.
  • Support is patchy. Only 2 of 7 forum threads in the last two months were resolved.
  • Well rated. 4.4 out of 5 from 167 ratings.

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WP Crontrol alternatives

The most-installed plugins doing the same job, from Scheduled Tasks & Cron Management. WP Crontrol itself ranks #1 of 13. How plugins are grouped.

#2

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Action Scheduler

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WP-Cron Status Checker

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Force Refresh

force-refresh 4K installs · 5.0 stars #6

Cron Jobs

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WP Cron HTTP Auth

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Standing

More installed than 99.6% of the directory

Ahead of 47,535 of the 47,734 plugins that report an install count at all. An install figure on its own says nothing; this is what it is worth.

99.6% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count
47,535 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one
198 Plugins ahead of it More active installs, or the same published band
How to read that

The directory rounds install counts hard and publishes them as bands, so two plugins showing the same number are not necessarily level. The percentile is computed over the plugins that report a count at all, which excludes the quarter of the directory sitting on the reporting floor.

Details

The record

Everything the directory publishes about this plugin, as it was last read.

Current version
2.0.0
Requires WordPress
6.6
Tested up to
7.1.4
Requires PHP
7.4
Added to the directory
6 January 2008
Last updated
15 October 2026
Contributors
4
Author
Syed Balkhi
Support threads resolved
2 of 7

Its own tags

  • cron
  • crontrol
  • debug
  • woocommerce
  • wp cron

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