WP Crontrol enables you to take control of the scheduled cron events on your WordPress website or WooCommerce store. From the admin screens you can:

• View all scheduled cron events along with their arguments, schedule, callback functions, and when they are next due.
• Edit, delete, pause, resume, and immediately run cron events.
• Add new cron events.
• Bulk delete cron events.
• Add and remove custom cron schedules.
• Export and download cron event lists as a CSV file.

WP Crontrol is aware of timezones, will alert you to events that have no actions or that have missed their schedule, and will show you a helpful warning message if it detects any problems with your cron system.

1. Go to the Tools → Cron Events menu to manage cron events.
2. Go to the Settings → Cron Schedules menu to manage cron schedules.

WP Crontrol uses fine-grained capabilities for managing different aspects of cron events:

• view_cron_events - View the list of cron events
• edit_cron_event - Edit existing cron events
• delete_cron_event - Delete cron events
• create_cron_event - Add new standard cron events
• create_url_cron_event - Add new URL cron events
• create_php_cron_event - Add new PHP cron events
• run_cron_event - Run cron events manually
• pause_cron_event - Pause or resume cron events
• export_cron_events - Export cron events

By default, all of these capabilities are granted to users with the manage_options capability (typically Administrators). The create_php_cron_event capability requires the edit_files capability instead.

Developers can use the user_has_cap filter to customize these capabilities. For example, to allow only Network Admins to manage cron events on a multisite installation:

add_filter( 'user_has_cap', function( $user_caps, $required_caps, $args, $user ) {
    $cron_caps = [
        'view_cron_events',
        'edit_cron_event',
        'delete_cron_event',
        'create_cron_event',
        'create_url_cron_event',
        'run_cron_event',
        'pause_cron_event',
        'export_cron_events'
    ];

    if ( in_array( $args[0], $cron_caps, true ) && user_can( $user, 'manage_network_options' ) ) {
        $user_caps[ $args[0] ] = true;
    }

    return $user_caps;
}, 10, 4 );

Extensive documentation on how to use WP Crontrol and how to get help for error messages that it shows is available on the WP Crontrol website.

See the FAQ on the WordPress.org plugin page for WP Crontrol.

I maintain several other plugins for developers. Check them out:

• Query Monitor is the developer tools panel for WordPress.
• User Switching provides instant switching between user accounts in WordPress.

WP Crontrol is private by default and always will be. It does not send data to any third party, nor does it include any third party resources. WP Crontrol's full privacy statement can be found here.

WP Crontrol aims to be fully accessible to all of its users. WP Crontrol's full accessibility statement can be found here.

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1. Cron events can be modified, deleted, and executed
   

2. New cron events can be added
   

3. New cron schedules can be added, giving plugin developers more options when scheduling events