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WP Cron Pixie

By ianmjones

Active Installs

10+

Last Updated

May 21, 2026

First Released

February 9, 2017

Download History (Last one month)


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A little dashboard widget to view the WordPress cron, and run an event now rather than later.

This plugin was built for the Building Reactive WordPress Plugins series of articles on the Delicious Brains Blog.

  1. Building Reactive WordPress Plugins – Part 1 – Backbone.js
  2. Building Reactive WordPress Plugins – Part 2 – Vue.js
  3. Building Reactive WordPress Plugins – Part 3 – Elm

The current version is using Gleam on the front end.

From your WordPress dashboard

  1. Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’
  2. Search for ‘WP Cron Pixie’
  3. Activate WP Cron Pixie from your Plugins page.

From WordPress.org

  1. Download WP Cron Pixie.
  2. Upload the ‘wp-cron-pixie’ directory to your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory, using your favourite method (ftp, sftp, scp, etc…)
  3. Activate WP Cron Pixie from your Plugins page.
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Changelog

1.6.3

  • Updated dependencies.
  • Tested with WP 7.0

1.6.2

  • Fixed compatibility with PHP 7.4.
  • Updated dependencies.

1.6.1

  • Example events setting is now saved for each subsite in a multisite install.

1.6.0

  • Added search of schedules and events.
  • Added display of event hook with args when mouse hovers over event name.
  • Auto refresh setting is now saved for each user.

1.5.0

  • Gleam front end.
  • Fixed “Error message: Event schedule does not exist.” debug.log messages when example events enabled.
  • Fixed example events not being removed from cron schedules after turning them off.
  • Tested with WP 6.8
  • Requires WP 6.0+
  • Requires PHP 7.4+

1.4.4

  • Updated dependencies.
  • Tested with WP 6.5

1.4.3

  • Tested with WP 6.4

1.4.2

  • Fixed dashboard widget trying to run at network level in a multisite.
  • Tested with WP 6.1

1.4.1

  • Fixed wrong data refreshing into non-primary subsite of directory multisite.
  • Minor updates to framework and build tools.
  • Tested with WP 5.4

1.4

  • Added checkbox to control whether example cron events should be added to cron.
  • Added checkbox to control whether the display should auto refresh.
  • Added “Refresh” icon for manual refresh of data.
  • Fixed not all strings in UI being translatable.
  • Elm 0.19 front end.

1.3.1

  • Minor updates to framework and build tools.
  • Tested with WP 4.9.8.

1.3

  • Elm 0.18 front end.

1.2

  • Elm front end.

1.1

  • Vue.js front end.

1.0

  • Initial release.
  • Backbone.js front end.
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Plugin Info

  • Version: 1.6.3
  • Last Updated: May 21, 2026
  • Active Installs: 10+
  • WordPress Version: 6.0 or higher
  • Tested up to: 7.0
  • PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
  • Tags:    
    admin cron dashboard widget wp-cron

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