Email Alert When WP-Cron Stops Running
Warns the admin by email when scheduled tasks are more than an hour overdue, so you notice before scheduled posts, digests and backups silently stop.
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Follow-Up Email a Few Days After Sign-Up
Sends new users a second, friendly email a few days after they register, with tips or links to get started, scheduled automatically with WP-Cron.
Log Scheduled Tasks That Take Too Long
Measures how long each scheduled task (cron event) takes to run and records the slow ones under Tools > Slow Cron Tasks, so you can spot the plugin that makes WP-Cron sluggish.
Pause WP-Cron Outside Production
Stops scheduled tasks from running on local, development and staging copies of the site, so a cloned database does not send newsletters, sync orders or run backups twice.
Protect wp-cron.php From Outside Requests
Requires a secret key for requests to wp-cron.php and adds that key automatically to WordPress's own cron calls, so outsiders cannot hammer the endpoint to slow your site down.
Run WP-Cron From a Real Cron Job
Stops WordPress from checking for scheduled tasks on every page view; you trigger wp-cron.php from your server's cron instead, which is faster and more reliable.
Run a Daily Task With WP-Cron
Schedules a custom task once a day and gives you a function to fill in, for example to clean up data or send a report. Includes the scheduling and the hook.
Scheduled Cron Events Viewer
Adds a Tools > Cron Events screen listing every scheduled WP-Cron event with its next run time, recurrence and hook name, to debug missed or duplicate tasks.
Send Emails in the Background
Queues emails sent by WordPress and plugins and sends them a few seconds later through WP-Cron, so form submissions, orders and registrations no longer wait for the mail server.
Spawn WP-Cron Less Often
Lets WordPress start its background task runner at most every five minutes instead of every minute, reducing extra requests on busy sites.
Upcoming Scheduled Tasks Widget
Lists the next WP-Cron events and flags overdue ones, a quick way to spot a broken scheduler.
Weekly and Monthly WP-Cron Schedules
Adds "Once Weekly" and "Once Monthly" recurrences to WP-Cron so your own scheduled tasks, or plugins that offer a schedule picker, can run less often than daily.