88
Advanced Cron Manager – debug & control
Peek under the hood of your site's background tasks.
HealthyGrowing
88/100
Users appreciate the clean interface and helpful support despite occasional dashboard bugs.
Active installs
~35,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 30k+
Rating
4.7★
38 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+301%
Growing fast
70 → 281 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +301% in the last year
70/day a year ago→281/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayAdvanced Cron Manager is well-regarded as a reliable and user-friendly WP cron management tool with responsive support, though a small number of users report broken dashboard functionality and core actions not working at all.
What people like
- +Reliable cron execution without creating duplicates, unlike some competing plugins×2
- +Clean, user-friendly interface with dynamic filtering×4
- +Responsive and helpful support team, with fast bug fixes×6
- +Works well across different server setups and hosting environments×3
- +Pro version provides additional tools useful for complex projects×2
Common complaints
- −Dashboard broken for some users, with buttons and actions completely non-functional×2
- −PHP compatibility issue — undefined constant bug in FormProvider.php when creating a task
- −Compatibility checking lags behind, requiring updates to stay current
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.66★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
- 0%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 25% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-09-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 38 total
Latest reviews · 38 analyzed
- 2024-10-10★★★★★Amazing help for manging crons in batchesalufhakidum
- 2024-06-10★★★★★Dashboard CrashedCypressWebs
- 2024-02-28★★★★★A must havemrdumont
- 2023-08-31★★★★★Excellent serviceKirstyP
- 2021-12-23★★★★★Solved Deactivated Plugins ActionsReinaldo
- 2021-08-09★★★★★Sexy Cron ManagerChristian Saborio
- 2021-05-31★★★★★Very useful plugin2E0ELI
- 2021-02-22★★★★★Helpful plugin. Have been using since many years!Gulshan Kumar
- 2021-01-15★★★★★Errorfalke2
- 2020-08-21★★★★★Really found it usefulAnonymous User
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
285
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
286
Prior 7-day baseline
166
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
402
Mean release-day peak (30d)
293
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-0.3%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
25%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.74
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
87%
5★ share in analyzed sample
0%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.66 → 4.66★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered