Title: Core Control
Author: Dion Hulse
Published: <strong>January 2, 2009</strong>
Last modified: March 7, 2016

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# core-control

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/core-control/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/core-control/#reviews)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/core-control/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/core-control/)

## Description

This plugin has been closed as of May 18, 2022 and is not available for download.
This closure is permanent. Reason: Author Request.

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Not recommended, broke auto update for me. (WITHDRAWN)](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-recommended-broke-auto-update-for-me/)󠁿

 [Wolfgang Loske](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wloske/) July 26, 2017

WITHDRAWNToo bad I can not delete the review so I give it a neutral 3-star rating
and mark everything clearly as WITHDRAWN. The plugin did not do any harm but I also
did not review the plugin further. I am pretty sure the plugin did something to 
my DB which now prevents the system to update properly. The system does not do automatic
updates anymore and I do currently don’t know how to fix it.

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### 󠀁[Instantly identified a problematic cron](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/instantly-identified-a-problematic-cron/)󠁿

 [Tim Butler](https://profiles.wordpress.org/timbutlerau/) October 19, 2016

Cron was causing intermittent issues, using Core Control it allowed each cron task
to be called individually and identified the issue immediately. Very, very useful
tool for finding issues which aren’t on every page load (ie a cron task).

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### 󠀁[Excellent debugging tool!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-debugging-tool-2/)󠁿

 [lillehummer](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lillehummer/) October 11, 2016

This has been an incredible tool for debugging and analysing all our wp_remote_get/
post() requests. Thanks a bunch!

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### 󠀁[Amazing debugging tool](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-debugging-tool/)󠁿

 [csmicfool](https://profiles.wordpress.org/csmicfool/) September 14, 2016

I needed to debug something related to wp_cron, this plugin was perfect. Later that
day, I needed to debug/track external calls and boom – same plugin does that too.
Thanks!

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### 󠀁[Very happy and satisfied](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-happy-and-satisfied/)󠁿

 [ibiza69](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ibiza69/) September 3, 2016

The plugin its great and it does what it´s supposed to do. We are very happy with
it and can only recommend it 😉 !

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### 󠀁[Solved my cron job issues!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/solved-my-cron-job-issues/)󠁿

 [Max](https://profiles.wordpress.org/maximackermann/) September 3, 2016

Thanks to this plugin, I found the repeatative cron job that was murdering my server.
Tracked it and killed it and my server is not running 1000times faster. For those
who fall into the same trap as me, using pmpro membership plugin, the cron job name
was pmpro_cron_expiration_warnings which was being repeated 13,000times!! Thank 
you for saving me Developer!

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## Contributors & Developers

“Core Control” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Dion Hulse ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dd32/)

[Translate “Core Control” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/core-control)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/core-control/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/core-control/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/core-control/) by
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/core-control/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **1.2.1**
 *  Last updated **8 years ago**
 *  Active installations **N/A**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.5.33**
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/core-control/advanced/)