Action Scheduler is a WordPress app, with a 3.5 average rating from 13 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Action Scheduler is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Automattic. With a rating of 3.5★ from 13 reviews.
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Action Scheduler is a mixed-rating WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. 13 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +Published by Automattic — established developer track record
Cons
- −Average rating below 4.0 (3.5★) — read recent low-star reviews before committing
- −Limited review base (13) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Action Scheduler works
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Action Scheduler is a scalable, traceable job queue for background processing large sets of actions in WordPress. It’s specially designed to be distributed in WordPress plugins.
Action Scheduler works by triggering an action hook to run at some time in the future. Each hook can be scheduled with unique data, to allow callbacks to perform operations on that data. The hook can also be scheduled to run on one or more occasions.
Think of it like an extension to do_action() which adds the ability to delay and repeat a hook.
Battle-Tested Background Processing Every month, Action Scheduler processes millions of payments for Subscriptions, webhooks for WooCommerce, as well as emails and other events for a range of other plugins.
It’s been seen on live sites processing queues in excess of 50,000 jobs and doing resource intensive operations, like processing payments and creating orders, at a sustained rate of over 10,000 / hour without negatively impacting normal site operations.
This is all on infrastructure and WordPress sites outside the control of the plugin author.
If your plugin needs background processing, especially of large sets of tasks, Action Scheduler can help.
Learn More To learn more about how Action Scheduler works, and how to use it in your plugin, check out the docs on ActionScheduler.org.
There you will find:
Usage guide: instructions on installing and using Action Scheduler
WP CLI guide: instructions on running Action Scheduler at scale via WP CLI
API Reference: complete reference guide for all API functions
Administration Guide: guide to managing scheduled actions via the administration screen
Guide to Background Processing at Scale: instructions for running Action Scheduler at scale via the default WP Cron queue runner
Credits Action Scheduler is developed and maintained by Automattic with significant early development completed by Flightless.
Collaboration is cool. We’d love to work with you to improve Action Scheduler. Pull Requests welcome.
Keyword rankings
Action Scheduler ranks for 2 keywords across WordPress Plugin Directory. Here are the top 2:
- Rank #550
- Rank #748
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What is Action Scheduler?
Action Scheduler is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 3.5-star rating from 13 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Automattic.