WP-Cron Control

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1. ★★★★★ taropaa

   7.3y ago

   This sometimes works. Unfortunately, if you have any questions about it or issues with it, you won’t hear back from the devs 🙁 In my experience, it does not work in WP multisite 5.2.1 if you are trying to trigger the cron via the PHP command. The wget command seems to work fine, but the best part of this plugin was to allow it to trigger through the PHP server. This topic was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by taropaa.

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2. ★★★★★ jurasjo

   9.5y ago

   Very good and needed

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3. ★★★★★ pasqualerose

   9.9y ago

   I tried it, doesn’t work. Scheduled post still don’t post.

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4. ★★★★★ networkwebmasters

   10.2y ago

   Awesome Plugin, i am using this plugin on all my sites from 2 years, it works perfectly 🙂

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5. ★★★★★ kumarajay367

   10.6y ago

   Hi, greate plugin!. but how to call my own custom function in this plugin. Any help?

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6. ★★★★★ Juan

   11.0y ago

   I’ve had a lot problems trying to run wp-cron in a efficient way at my own. This plugin is the answer.

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7. ★★★★★ DareDevil73

   11.3y ago

   Good!

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8. ★★★★★ Justin Fletcher

   11.4y ago

   I can’t understand why so few reviews this has been very helpful and smoothed out CPU loading on a site with few visitors. The added security it brings is great and now the server processor won’t get loaded through multiple php processes running for cron. Thanks!

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2025-10-30 2K+ → 1K+ down after 210 days in tier
2. 2025-04-03 1K+ → 2K+ up after 34 days in tier
3. 2025-02-28 2K+ → 1K+ down after 9 days in tier
4. 2025-02-19 1K+ → 2K+ up after 28 days in tier
5. 2025-01-22 2K+ → 1K+ down after 13 days in tier
6. 2025-01-09 1K+ → 2K+ up after 41 days in tier
7. 2024-11-29 2K+ → 1K+ down after 358 days in tier
8. 2023-12-07 3K+ → 2K+ down after 215 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Cron Guard — installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags B
• WP Crontrol 300K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A
• Missed Scheduled Posts Publisher by WPBeginner 30K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A
• Cron Jobs 2K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B
• Cron Logger 1K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A
• WP Cron HTTP Auth 1K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A

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WP-Cron Control: 1K+ active installs, 3.5★ (10 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-30. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wp-cron-control