WP-Cron Status Checker
If WP-Cron runs important things for you, you better make sure WP-Cron always runs!
The facts
- Rating
- 3.5★ from 8
- Active installs
- 5k+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 15 Jul 2026
- Added
- Oct 2016
- Requires WP
- 5.1
- Tested up to
- WP 7.0.4
- Requires PHP
- 7.0
- Downloads
- 131,152
Our analysis
AI-assistedWP-Cron Status Checker is a WordPress plugin designed to monitor the functionality of WP-Cron, ensuring that scheduled tasks are executed properly. It checks every 24 hours whether WP-Cron is operational and logs the status of hooks that run through it. If any issues arise, such as a hook failing to complete, you receive an email notification.
This plugin is suitable for WordPress users who rely on scheduled tasks, such as those using WooCommerce for subscriptions or regular content updates. It helps prevent potential issues that could arise from WP-Cron failures, thereby maintaining the overall health of your website.
Best for: WordPress users who need to ensure scheduled tasks run smoothly on their site.
What it does well
- ✓Automatically checks WP-Cron functionality every 24 hours
- ✓Logs all hooks running with WP-Cron, including their status
- ✓Sends email notifications for any failures or issues
- ✓Displayed on the WordPress admin dashboard for easy access
- ✓Free to use and available from the WordPress.org directory
Where it falls short
- •Limited to basic functionality without the PRO version
- •May not provide detailed insights into all potential WP-Cron issues
Verdict
WP-Cron Status Checker is a practical solution for monitoring WP-Cron, particularly for users with scheduled tasks. It provides essential notifications and logging features to help maintain website functionality.
From the developer
webheadcoder's own description of WP-Cron Status Checker, lightly tidied.
What happens if WP-Cron stops working?
WordPress, Themes, and Plugins would never know if a new version is out. You could login to your website everyday for months, and never see any notices about updates. If you’re not careful you’ll soon have an out of date WordPress installation susceptible to hackers. Scheduled posts would never get published, auto drafts never deleted… you get the picture. Your website would crumble up and die.
Use Woocommerce? Subscriptions? Customers would never get billed again! Sessions would never be deleted. Scheduled sales would never appear. Your website would become bloated while giving away subscriptions for one time payments.
WP-Cron is important. So make sure it keeps working.
Think of this plugin as insurance, but free. WordPress, plugins, themes, and servers are all moving parts that can be updated at anytime. You can’t guarantee any of these changes won’t break your website in some way. While it’s not likely WP-Cron will stop working, if it does, you better know about it.
Every 24 hours this plugin automatically checks to see if WP-Cron is still able to run. Obviously, it does not depend on WP-Cron. Instead it sets its own transients that expire over 24 hours. Whenever the transient expires it checks to make sure WordPress can run WP-Cron. If an unexpected error occurs the you’ll get an email.
In addition to checking if WP-Cron CAN run, this plugin now logs all hooks running with WP-Cron and if they fail or complete. You’ll be able to see what ran, when it ran, how long it took, and if it completed.
For your convenience The WP-Cron Status Checker is displayed on your WordPress admin dashboard. The status page is accessible through the Tools -> WP Cron Status side menu.
Know when WP-Cron doesn’t complete
When a WP-Cron hook fails you’ll get notified soon after. A hook “fails” when it takes longer than 5 minutes to complete. You’ll get an email within 24 hours (or based on the plugin’s settings) to notify you of any failures.
Sometimes a plugin runs some code that abruptly exits the process and there is no way of knowing when it stopped. WP-Cron Status Checker does it’s best to detect this type of code. If it’s caught, the elapsed time is not recorded and you’ll see “N/A” with an “Incomplete” status. Other times when it’s caught you’ll see an “Exit” status which is considered complete. Please see the plugin page for more on completion statuses.
PRO Version
The PRO version removes the 3 log limit and lets you choose to keep logs longer and email more frequently. Please see more on the plugin page: https://webheadcoder.com/wp-cron-status-checker/