WP Crontrol vs Plugin Detective – Troubleshooting Conflicts

Plugin Detective helps you troubleshoot issues on your site quickly and easily to find the cause of a problem. Once the culprit is found, the problem plugin can be quickly deactivated. You can even fix your site when it has the white screen of death (fatal error). You’ll want to have Plugin Detective installed, so if your site crashes from a conflict or bad plugin update, you can get it back up and running quickly! Plugin Detective is your best friend when you need to: – Troubleshoot WordPress plugin conflicts – Remove stuck .maintenance files – Recover your site from fatal errors caused by plugins We’ve all been there–something’s broken on your site. You’ve looked around the web for advice about what to do and have stumbled across the typical wisdom: deactivate all your plugins and then reactivate them one by one, checking your site for the problem after each reactivation. Ugh. Sure, it works. But who has time for that? Find Plugin Conflicts with Detective Otto Bot Detective Otto Bot walks you through solving your case one step at a time, all from one single screen. Open a case and tell Detective Otto where you’re seeing the problem. If your site requires any plugins to run correctly, tell Otto about those, too. Then, Otto will interrogate the suspects and track clues, checking in with you from time to time. All you need to do is answer “Yes, it’s fixed” or “No, it’s still broken” each time. Otto will do the rest and find the culprit in minutes. Best of all – Plugin Detective can work even if you’re seeing the White Screen of Death on your site or if all you can see are PHP errors. Please have a look at the FAQ’s for how to access Plugin Detective and log into WordPress even if you can’t get to your login screen. Once Otto has identified the culprit, you can quickly deactivate the troublesome plugin and go about your day. Remove Stuck .Maintenance File or Scheduled Maintenance Have you gotten stuck in maintenance mode on WordPress? The dreaded “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute” message haunts you; the minute never ends! With Plugin Detective installed you can quickly get out of these situations without the hassle of deleting files via your host or FTP. Just tack on this slug to the end of your website URL: /wp-content/plugins/plugin-detective/troubleshoot/?restore=1 So that your URL looks like this: https://yoursite.com/wp-content/plugins/plugin-detective/troubleshoot/?restore=1 This will prompt you to log in and automatically remove that stuck maintenance file for you. Who Can Use This Troubleshooting Tool? Plugin Detective is a tool that requires no coding experience or technical knowledge to use. For that reason, Plugin Detective is the ideal troubleshooting and conflict-checking tool for: Any WordPress website owner Developers and technical support engineers Plugin and theme owners and their support teams Debug Tool Features Strategically activate and deactivate plugins on your site to help you find the plugin causing trouble Open Plugin Detective for troubleshooting on any page on your site – both in the backend and the frontend! Choose any subset of your active plugins as the baseline for your testing Loved by Plugin Support Teams The Simply Schedule Appointments and Draw Attention support teams love to share this conflict-checking tool with their customers. Plugin Detective makes it easy for their clients to debug performance issues and figure out plugin conflicts in a jiffy! 1.2.14 – 2023-06-10 Features and Improvements Fix PHP 8.2 compatibility 1.2.13 – 2023-05-25 Features and Improvements Update required WP version to 6.1 1.2.12 – 2023-05-25 Features and Improvements Update required WP version to 6.1 1.2.11 – 2023-04-27 Features and Improvements PR:#25 – Compatibility with WordPress 6.2 1.2.10 – 2023-04-11 Fixes PR:#19 – Prevent fatal error on WP versions where WP_Textdomain_Registry doesn… Features and Improvements 1.2.9 – 2023-03-28 Fixes Features and Improvements 1.2.8 – 2023-03-28 Fixes Features and Improvements 1.2.7 – 2023-03-28 Fixes Features and Improvements 1.2.6 – 2023-02-24 no changes 1.2.3 Fixed for WP 6.1 compatibility 1.2.1 Fixed for WP 5.9 compatibility 1.1.8 Fixed for WP 5.8 compatibility 1.1.8 For older changelog entries, please see the additional changelog.txt file delivered with the plugin.

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. Usage Go to the Tools → Cron Events menu to manage cron events. Go to the Settings → Cron Schedules menu to manage cron schedules. Documentation 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. For site owners Owners of WordPress websites and WooCommerce stores use WP Crontrol to ensure that scheduled cron events run correctly and efficiently. By providing complete control over cron events, WP Crontrol helps you: Improve reliability: Address missed or failed cron events, ensuring your website or WooCommerce store continues to function as expected. Enhance security: Monitor and control cron events to ensure automatic update checks are performed as they should. Simplify management: Add, edit, delete, and pause cron events from a user-friendly interface, without needing to write any code. Gain insights: Export cron event data for analysis or reporting. Action Scheduler compatibility: Full support for the Action Scheduler system in WooCommerce, which is used to process recurring payments, subscriptions, and background orders. Clarity of times and timezones: All times are shown with a clear and accurate indication of which timezone applies. No more guesswork! For developers Developers use WP Crontrol to streamline and debug their WordPress development process: Enhanced debugging: Identify and troubleshoot issues with scheduled tasks, ensuring your scheduled events and their callbacks run as expected. Custom schedules: Create and manage custom cron schedules to fit the specific needs of your website, plugins, or themes, providing greater flexibility than just the core schedules. Efficient workflow: Add, edit, and delete cron events directly from the WordPress admin interface, saving time and reducing the need for manual coding. Insightful monitoring: Get insight into the performance and behavior of your scheduled tasks, allowing for optimization and better resource management. Accurate debugging: WP Crontrol goes to great lengths to ensure that running an event manually does so in a manner which exactly matches how WordPress core runs schdeuled events. This ensures that you can debug events accurately and with confidence. Other Plugins 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. Privacy Statement 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. Accessibility Statement WP Crontrol aims to be fully accessible to all of its users. WP Crontrol’s full accessibility statement can be found here.