Automatic updates are not working

Question

After the new release, obviously that core and plugin automatic updates it's not working by my side. For the core auto updates I added the following mu-plugin:

add_filter( 'allow_major_auto_core_updates', '__return_true' );
add_filter( 'allow_minor_auto_core_updates', '__return_true' );

As I don't want dev builds. And another mu-plugin for autoupdate plugins:

add_filter( 'auto_update_plugin', '__return_true' );

I also use W3-Total-Cache plugin and tried to clear all caches, still no success. Where is my mistake? How to debug this? Is the auto update feature uses cron jobs? Please advice. Thanks!

Answer 1

So basically there a few more things to watch out when debugging this issues. I did the following and everything works like a charm.

Downloaded the Background Update Tester plugin to see if there are any conflicts.

• Your WordPress install can communicate with WordPress.org securely.
• No version control systems were detected. (I had .git folder in my installation)
• Your installation of WordPress doesn’t require FTP credentials to perform updates. If it does just add define('FS_METHOD','direct'); in the wp-config.php or add the credentials via some of those constants

define('FS_CHMOD_FILE', 0755); define('FS_CHMOD_DIR', 0755); define('FS_METHOD', 'ftpext'); define('FTP_BASE', '/httpdocs/'); define('FTP_CONTENT_DIR', '/httpdocs/wp-content/'); define('FTP_PLUGIN_DIR ', '/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/'); define('FTP_USER', 'username'); define('FTP_PASS', 'password'); define('FTP_HOST', '123.456.789'); define('FTP_SSL', false);

• All of your WordPress files are writable.