Questions tagged [updates]
An update is a source code that is applied on top of the existing software or program with an aim to fix security vulnerabilities, bugs and improve usability.
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Updatable theme developing
I made a wordpress theme and I want to sell it and support the theme for a time so I need update the theme.However I dont know how to do it? Also I wonder if I make new version as full theme, Will ...
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Updated wordpress missing image upload area
Our wordpress updated yesterday. We are on version 5.3.2.
Since the update the upload files function within a page is blank.
I have included a screenshot, I wondered if anyone else has had this ...
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There has been a critical error on your website
I have uploaded my WordPress website in cPanel. My plugins and all were working well until after a few months I logged in to update my website and its plugins. Now I can't install, remove, or modify ...
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Multisite: cloning, but also updating too
My requirements are:
1 main website and 100 subsites
All subsites will have same themes, plugins, pages, menus, sidebars - everything
Only posts in each subsite will be different.
How do I manage ...
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Updating Existed RocketTheme Theme on Wordpress
I have a legal RocketTheme theme for Wordpress. I installed it while it on version 1.5. Now, version 1.6 released. How can I update theme without corrupt my theme customizations ?
Thanks.
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Update Failed: There has been a critical error on your website
While updating Jetpack WordPress plugin in Rise2Life site shows error without updating the plugin. The error is:
Update Failed: There has been a critical error on your website. Please check your ...
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Prevent update check for specific theme
I'm working on a custom theme that lives in /var/www/html/wp-content/themes/custom/. It's for internal use, so it doesn't matter if there's a theme with the same name on the wordpress site.
But ...
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Block plugin update possibilities (but not by hiding notifications)
Is it possible to block specific plugins from updating, manually too? I don't want to block this by hiding the notification, changing the plugin version or anything like this. I'd like the ...
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Still Another update is currently in progress by updating WordPress 5.3
I tried to find with this select statement.
SELECT * FROM `wp_options` WHERE 'option_name' LIKE '%core_update%'
Zero lines result.
What can I do beside update by hand. I only want to use the update ...
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Disabling forced FTP credentials for any updates
I have a wordpress site that we were versioning controlling. Any plugin/Wordpress base update would have to go through a merge request and then deployed. Well our deploy process is broken and I'm ...
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Reset plugins version cache | pre_set_site_transient_update_plugins
In my plugin, I use those filters for auto-update and check the license.
add_filter( 'pre_set_site_transient_update_plugins', array( &$this, 'check_for_update' ) );
add_filter( 'plugins_api', ...
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Unable to update plugins or log out
The server my site was hosted on recently went down and someone else was able to fix it for me. I am unclear on what exactly the issues with the server were, but since the site came back up, my cron ...
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What is a rock solid development and deployment workflow? [closed]
I am looking for a modern, reliable, solid rock development workflow for Wordpress, but most articles only explain individual parts. Some talk about very specific aspects like the way of deployment, ...
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Parent Theme update was not showing on the update page
I'm a novice user and looking for some help with a wordpress site that I am maintaining. I have a parent and a child theme set up and both had a recent update available. However the parent theme ...
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Download failed cURL error 7: . Can't update anything
Please, help. I want to update WordPress(or plugins), but always the same error: 'Download failed: cURL error 7: .'
OS: Linux Fedora 30. Server: nginx. DB: MySQL 8.0. PHP 7.3
I have installed all ...
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Update a previous version of plugin when the new plugin is built from the scratch
I'm seeking help and suggestion from all of you. I've built a plugin from the scratch and now instructed to update the previous version of that plugin. But the new version that I've created is totally ...
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WordPress PHP version
My server has last PHP versión but WordPress still But my site keeps asking for the latest version, how do I update this? Thank you
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How to preserve changes in templates and other files
I've downloaded a theme and then changed some css styles, and also php templates etc. Then I've realized, that when I will have to update the theme I'll probably lose all my changes. Is this kind of ...
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How can I ping update-core.php with a script?
I have the paid Divi theme on many websites on a cPanel powered server. I use WP-CLI in a bash script to update all the plugins and themes. But Divi will never update because it only reveals an ...
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If I build a custom theme, will it update?
This might be a pretty dumb question, but I couldn't find a straightforward answer on the forums. If I build a custom WP theme using the two Lyra guides at
https://www.lyrathemes.com/bootstrap-...
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Updates Hidden on Dashboard
I have taken over a website and it seems the plugin and core updates have been hidden.
I have checked the wp-config:
define( 'WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE', false );
and functions.php (for anything along ...
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How to include a custom thumbnail with my WordPress plugin?
I am developing a WordPress plugin and I would like to show a custom logo/thumbnail on the "WordPress Updates" screen like other plugins do.
What do I need to do to get this to happen?
Right now it ...
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Admin keeps showing pending translation update
WP shows that I have a pending update
In /wp-admin/update-core.php, I see it's a translation update
I press the update translation button
The update warning disappears
... and after a few moments of ...
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Auto Update A WordPress Plugin from within another WordPress Manager Plugin
So I have a made a small manager plugin myself to modify some core elements from WordPress and I also hide it from my clients so they can't disable it as it also hides WPManage which is the management ...
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Cannot update WordPress to 5.2
I am using CentOS 7 (CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core)), NGINX 1.15.12, WordPress 5.1
Error
Update WordPress
Downloading update from https://downloads.wordpress.org/release/wordpress-5.2-no-...
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Update wordpress theme without customization loss
My client asked me to update his theme. I have listened that when theme updated all of custom code is overwritten. Now I want your clarification in following things:
How can I check that weather the ...
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WP core and plugin updates fail AWS
I'm trying to set up an AWS LAMP environment for WordPress. Everything on the AWS side is working. EC2, S3, EFS, RDS, Cloudflare, the whole package. The site loads and is blazingly fast... however ...
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Error after installing the WordPress plugin updates
I have trouble after update WordPress plugin.
"Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. check back in a minute."
and then
"This page isn’t working ptmitajayamandiri.com is currently unable to ...
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Environment to do updates to legacy (4.7) version of WP while staying on php 5.6?
So, I think I know what needs to happen but I wanted to get the opinion of the community and hopefully some more experienced people. I have to do content and theme updates to a site still running php ...
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Some wp-admin folder file deleted when Wordpress upgrade
We upgrading Wordpress then some custom files deleted from wp-admin folder. but theme/template file not deleted.
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How to disable updates in WordPress theme
I am working on a WordPress website. Earlier before me, there was one another guy has worked on that website.
Now he has done all his changes in parent theme without creating a child theme. Now, ...
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Is the root index.php file part of the Core?
The contents of the /index.php is as follows:
/**
* Tells WordPress to load the WordPress theme and output it.
*
* @var bool
*/
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
/** Loads the WordPress Environment ...
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Gutenberg editor in WordPress 5.0.3 /wp-json/wp/v2/pages/4713/autosaves?_locale=user 500 (Internal Server Error)
I recently upgraded WordPress from 4.3 version to 5.0.3 version.
Now I am trying to add following code in to a page of a WordPress site in the Gutenberg editor.
<!--[if lte IE 8]>
<script ...
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WordPress and plugins can't update ("inconsistent file permissions" error)?
I have a problem - when I click on "Wordpress update", I receive this message:
Downloading update from https://downloads.wordpress.org/release/wordpress-5.1-new-bundled.zip… Unpacking the update… ...
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Two problems on my WordPress installation [closed]
First problem is I can't scroll on creation post page, same with disabled all plugins.
Second problem is I have already an update notification in menu but no update on update page.
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How to update theme to specific version
Our current WordPress version is 3.8.28 and the theme Twenty Twelve Theme version is 1.3. Now we would like to update the theme to 2.8 version.
Is it possible to update the only theme? if yes how ...
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cURL 28 error after switch from to brew php 7.2 on localhost
I've been running into trouble with all my localhost install of Wordpress reporting cURL error 28 (timeout) since (I believe!)I've switched my PHP version from 7.0 to 7.2 with brew on my local Mac OS ...
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How to update Wordpress and plugins at specific day and time in PHP?
We use automatic updates on our sites due to having many sites and so manual updates not being feasible in the low hosting costs.
But due to Wordpress or mainly plugin updates having the possibility ...
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Posts Missing in Dashboard after update
I did many updates to a WordPress site including a WP update to 5.0.3 for a client. After the updates, many posts were missing from the home landing page and other pages. Although the categories ...
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Updating my free theme delete all my changes [closed]
I'm developing a blog. I'm using a free theme, and I've made a lot of changes, from style to scripts. I update my theme from version 1.02 to 1.03, and all my changes have been deleted. I didn't know ...
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Will there be security updates for WordPress 4.9.9
Since WordPress 5 is out im wondering if there are still security updates for WordPress 4.9.9 or do I need to update to WordPress 5 as soon as possible?
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Unable to locate WordPress content directory
I have a website where the home page is created in CodeIgniter (www.myweb.com) and the blogs are created in WordPress as a subdirectory (blog.myweb.com) and is hosted in AWS. I am trying to update the ...
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How to update WordPress plugins properly using git?
I just updated some plugins (woocommerce, polylang) of a local copy of a running wordpress website. As I'm using git I wanted to commit the changes and sync with the live-host. But the problem is, ...
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Can I replace the "Upgrade Network" with SQL query?
I have a WordPress Multisite network. When the WordPress version has been updated, I have to click on "Upgrade Network" for do same thing on all subsites.
How can I replace this function with one SQL ...
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Where can I see all changes for a new WordPress version?
Could someone tell me where I could find detailed information about what has beend changed/improved in a new WordPress major/minor version? Maybe some kind of changelog or something?
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Looking to create an "update theme" functionality for a custom front-end dashboard
I've created a theme that includes a custom dashboard outside of wp-admin.
I would like a user who doesn't have access to the wp-admin (but does have access to my custom dashboard) to be able to ...
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How to test 'upgrader_process_complete' hook in plugin development?
I maintain and develop several plugins in the WP repo and have been wanting to deploy some update that display notices/setups new settings for installations that are upgrading to the new version of ...
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How to force an update of WordPress core to a newer minor version, using the Dashboard?
It would save substantial time to have an efficient method of forcing a WordPress core update to the latest minor version, using the Dashboard so that cPanel or an equivalent isn't needed.
Minor ...
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How do I get the user ID of the user that was updated in WordPress?
I want to run a custom function in my plugin that notifies me of the user that's email has been updated in wordpress backend. But i am not sure how do I get the user ID of that user, since this action ...
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"You have the latest version of WordPress. Future security updates will be applied automatically."
Today I've manually updated my website Wordpress version from 5.0.0 to 5.0.2. Since these updates are not automatic, I'm puzzled by the meaning of this message that appears now at the top of my ...
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