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Cronhelm

View, edit, run, pause and schedule WP-Cron events and custom cron schedules from your WordPress admin. Free, private by default.

by LittleBig.Co (based on work by John Blackbourn and Edward Dale) · github.com/littlebig-co/cronhelm · website

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Install

Download source zip No release zip yet

This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.

Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:

wp plugin install https://github.com/littlebig-co/cronhelm/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
Updates itself. It ships its own updater (Update URI header), so new versions appear under Dashboard → Updates.
Readme github.com/littlebig-co/cronhelm ↗

View, edit, run, pause and schedule WP-Cron events and custom cron schedules from your WordPress admin. Free and GPL.

Cronhelm is a fork of WP Crontrol 1.22.0 by John Blackbourn and Edward Dale. It has no upsells and no tracking beyond a privacy-friendly update check. Full description, privacy notes and changelog are in readme.txt.

Install

Download cronhelm.zip from the latest release and upload it under Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin. Do not use GitHub's "Source code" download: its folder has the wrong name. Once installed, the plugin updates itself.

Develop

PHP 7.4+, no build step. The Composer classmap in vendor/ is committed, so after adding or renaming a class run:

composer dump-autoload --no-dev --classmap-authoritative

Release

GitLab (source) is the working repository and runs CI. GitHub (github) is the public copy: push to both, git push source main && git push github main.

Bump the version in cronhelm.php (header and CRONHELM_VERSION) and the changelog in readme.txt, push to main, then run the manual release_to_update_server job in GitLab CI. It builds the ZIP, uploads it to R2 and registers the version with the LittleBig.Co update server.

Then publish the same ZIP on GitHub: download the job's cronhelm-<version>.zip artifact, tag v<version> on both remotes, and run gh release create v<version> cronhelm-<version>.zip cronhelm.zip --title "Cronhelm <version>" --notes-file <notes> (the unversioned copy keeps the "latest" link stable).

License

GPL v2 or later. See LICENSE. Copyright 2008 Edward Dale, 2012-2026 John Blackbourn, 2026 LittleBig.Co.