Title: wp-cron.php Error
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# wp-cron.php Error

 *  [clyde sweet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clyde-sweet/)
 * (@clyde-sweet)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-cronphp-error/)
 * Installed back up.
 * Ran once – did fine.
 * Went to schedule backups.
 * When I went to start, all I got was a spinning wheel and then a message at the
   top which said:
 *  “BackUpWordPress has detected a problem. wp-cron.php is returning a Operation
   timed out after 30014 milliseconds with 0 bytes received response which could
   mean cron jobs aren’t getting fired properly. BackUpWordPress relies on wp-cron
   to run scheduled back ups. See the FAQ for more details.”
 * Now what?
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/backupwordpress/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/backupwordpress/)

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 * Last reply from: [clyde sweet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clyde-sweet/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-cronphp-error/)
 * Status: not resolved