Title: Background tasks not being executed wordpress
Last modified: March 27, 2023

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# Background tasks not being executed wordpress

 *  [samjansen97](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samjansen97/)
 * (@samjansen97)
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-tasks-not-being-executed-wordpress/)
 * Background tasks not being executed wordpress.
 * Differant plugins like advanced ads, newsletter, recurring payments, wordfence
   are not always executing background taks.
 * Sometimes they do it but got serval notification or I just saw the plugins settings
   that task where not executed.
 * The cron job seems like working fine.
 * My hosting only wants to help if I can give them steps how to recreate the problem
   but I am not sure how to do it
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fbackground-tasks-not-being-executed-wordpress%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Moderator [threadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threadi/)
 * (@threadi)
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-tasks-not-being-executed-wordpress/#post-16615566)
 * Do you see any abnormalities under Tools > Site Health?
 * Can you install the plugin: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-crontrol/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-crontrol/)–
   so you can see under Tools > Cronjobs what tasks are stored and if necessary 
   why they did not run.
 *  Thread Starter [samjansen97](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samjansen97/)
 * (@samjansen97)
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-tasks-not-being-executed-wordpress/#post-16615662)
 * I am receiving this error:
 * While trying to spawn a call to the WP-Cron system, the following error occurred:
   **
   cURL error 28: Operation timed out after 3000 milliseconds with 0 bytes received**
 * This message has been sent from [https://www.revive.nl](https://www.revive.nl)
   by the WP-Cron Status Checker plugin. You can change the email address in your
   WordPress admin section under Settings -> WP Cron Status. Only one email will
   be mailed every 24 hours.
 *  Thread Starter [samjansen97](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samjansen97/)
 * (@samjansen97)
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-tasks-not-being-executed-wordpress/#post-16615663)
 * I dont see anything wrong at site health
 *  Moderator [threadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threadi/)
 * (@threadi)
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-tasks-not-being-executed-wordpress/#post-16615672)
 * There is an article about the error here:
   [https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-fix-curl-error-28-connection-timed-out-after-x-milliseconds/](https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-fix-curl-error-28-connection-timed-out-after-x-milliseconds/)

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 * In: [Everything else WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/)
 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [threadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threadi/)
 * Last activity: [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-tasks-not-being-executed-wordpress/#post-16615672)
 * Status: not resolved

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