Title: BackUpBuddy not functioning when plugin is active
Last modified: November 25, 2016

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# BackUpBuddy not functioning when plugin is active

 *  [gordonlangley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gordonlangley/)
 * (@gordonlangley)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backupbuddy-not-functioning-when-plugin-is-active/)
 * Hello, I’m having trouble with cron jobs not running for backups when I activate‘
   Offline or coming Soon’ plugin. I’m using backupbuddy v7.2.1.1. This is what 
   BackUpbuddy says: The blocking of access to wp-cron.php would affect WordPress
   task scheduling in general (not just BackupBuddys use of it) and blocking wp-
   admin/admin-ajax.php may affect other functionality as well so in general with
   WordPress if password protection is enabled it is best to “whitelist” these one
   way or another.
 * Is it possible to still allow server access somehow to these to files? wp-cron.
   php + wp-admin/admin-ajax.php – thanks in advance!

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 * Last reply from: [gordonlangley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gordonlangley/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backupbuddy-not-functioning-when-plugin-is-active/)
 * Status: not resolved