Title: Plugin broke WP Cron
Last modified: November 26, 2019

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# Plugin broke WP Cron

 *  [Niels Pilon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nielspilon/)
 * (@nielspilon)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-broke-wp-cron/)
 * Hi,
 * It took a while to debug but this plugin broke the wp-cron functionality for 
   a site.
 * I don’t have much technical details as it’s a shared hosting account but could
   reproduce the issue on our own VPS which was used as a dev site. WP version was
   5.3 with PHP 7.1 for both installs
 * The error that pointed in the direction of the plugin is that I got a cURL 28
   error for the wp-cron file.
 * I’ve also notified the shared hosting company as they recommend this plugin. 
   But unfortunaltely it broke the wp-cron for this site.
 * Kind regards,
    Niels

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 *  [Fourgotten](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fourgotten/)
 * (@fourgotten)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-broke-wp-cron/#post-12176826)
 * Have same issue. WP cron stopped working because cron lock always gets into that“
   return” in wp-cron.php code
 *     ```
       if ( $doing_cron_transient && ( $doing_cron_transient + WP_CRON_LOCK_TIMEOUT > $gmt_time ) ) {
       			return;
       		}
       ```
   
 *  Plugin Author [Till Krüss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tillkruess/)
 * (@tillkruess)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-broke-wp-cron/#post-12177578)
 * [@nielspilon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nielspilon/): What plugin version
   are you running? Are you seeing any particular error in your logs?
 * I think v1.5.4 should fix this, but I’m not sure.
 *  Thread Starter [Niels Pilon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nielspilon/)
 * (@nielspilon)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-broke-wp-cron/#post-12179941)
 * Client was using the 1.4.1 version and I thought that was the most recent one
   as there was no update notification visible.
 * Didn’t check any further so it could be that 1.5.4 fixes this issue. Can’t test
   it anymore though as the client already disabled Redis caching on his hosting
   account.
 * Error log didn’t show any errors.
 *  [Elia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prettyboyelias/)
 * (@prettyboyelias)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-broke-wp-cron/#post-12435771)
 * Hi Till,
 * I believe these topics are related [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-wordpress-cron/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-wordpress-cron/)
 *  Plugin Author [Till Krüss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tillkruess/)
 * (@tillkruess)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-broke-wp-cron/#post-12437499)
 * Was this resolved [@nielspilon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nielspilon/)?

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 * 5 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [Till Krüss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tillkruess/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-broke-wp-cron/#post-12437499)
 * Status: not a support question