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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Can Hosting affect a plugin from working properly?
I have developed a website for a client, I built it on my own hosting account so it would not affect their current site. I have since transferred all of the data to the new site. However one of the ...
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How does WordPress get the upgrade URL?
Can anyone point me to the location in the code where WordPress gets the core update url (eg: https://downloads.wordpress.org/release/en_AU/wordpress-4.8.2.zip)?
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Where to access the available plugin/Wordpress updates?
I need to find out where/how I can access the plugin updates in a WordPress site
Ideally I want to have these in a json format, with the entire list of plugin updates available.
TIA
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Wordpress 4.8.2 redirects back after install and asks to delete/change config
I installed the newest version of wordpress today, as always (I have 20+ installations).
But with the newest version if I want to access the index site of wordpress I see this:
The file 'wp-...
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$wpdb->replace: WHERE?
My plan is to upsert values in a custom meta table with $wpdb->replace.
This is what I try:
$up_meta = $wpdb->replace(
'spieldaten',
array(
'spiel_uid' => $uid,
'...
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Wordpress update leads to 404 error on admin page and signup. CSS mishap with all plugin related functions
I have recently updated WordPress live website in production. After the update I am facing the following problems.
wp-admin link is not working: it throws a 404 error page.
Ref: http://bubblz.in/...
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How to Update an old theme for the latest wordpress version
Ok, so to start off I'm no Theme developer, but I have a little bit of experience with PHP, and quite a bit of experience (Several Years constant work) with wordpress in general.
I have a current ...
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How can we deal with unmaintained plugins with vulnerabilities?
I see that this is a big problem, not only related to the Wordpress but any other software where third-party add-ons, plugins are loosing support from original author.
But let's focus on Wordpress... ...
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Can I check which users ran which updates?
We have a site that was previously updated to 4.8.0. Two of us who normally perform updates did not have the right permissions to run the 4.8.1 update.
Using wp-cli wp core update
Error: Could not ...
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Can't access dashboard after 4.8.1 automatic upgrade
I’ve had an automatic update to 4.8.1 (on local, staging and production-sites) on thursday the 3rd of August and since it is no longer possible to access the admin dashboard.
In the header, i have ...
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WordPress Plugin Update Process
I am developing a wordpress plugin which involves creating a table in the wp database.
I have included an uninstall.php file to remove the table from the wp database when the user decides to delete ...
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Pause form submissions while upgrading plugins
Is there a way to pause form submissions during the plugin/WordPress core upgrade process. The problem I am trying to solve is that when upgrading a live site at some point the default WP 'Briefly ...
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Do I need to update the child theme too after updating the parent?
Do i need to only update the parent theme when i am asked to do so, or will i also need to update the child theme from time to time as well?
I know that the child theme is the one used to actually ...
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Getting a fatal error while updating
Every time i tried to update WordPress ,i faced this error:
Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 120 seconds exceeded in
G:\wamp\www\wordpress\wp-includes\Requests\Transport\fsockopen.php on
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My homemade plugin is trying to update to someone else's plugin
Wordpress is telling me that my self-built plugin has an update available, and this link leads me to someone else's repo.
After I first saw this message, I read a lot of questions on here asking ...
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WP-CLI command to update all plugins and core fails when executed from cron
I have the following WP-CLI command to update all plugins and core. It seems to fail when being executed from cron (other cron commands work):
0 0 * * 0 for dir in /var/www/html/*/; do cd "$dir" &...
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Error: Warning: strpos() in media.php
Received a new error after updating php to version 7.1
Here's what he writes:
Warning: strpos(): Empty needle in .../wp-includes/media.php on line 1147
Here's what's on this line:
if ( ! $...
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UpdraftPlus installed malware - scared to download or update plugins now! [closed]
A couple months back, I installed UpdraftPlus (free version) on my WordPress.org site. To my horror, immediately afterwards we started getting popups that would redirect to spam sites when you clicked ...
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'Customize' button in admin bar for CSS
On the WordPress.org site I'm an admin for, we have a Customize button in the Admin bar (see very left):
This allows us to easily edit CSS on the front end without editing any of our files. I ...
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woocommerce_before_calculate_totals in woocommerce 3.0
I recently made the jump from woocommerce 2.7 to 3.1
I'm having issues with the woocommerce_before_calculate_totals hook on the below function.
function calculate_embossing_fee( $cart_object ) {
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Wordpress Plugin Install / Update Problem
I am having multiple problems with installing new / updating plugins in Wordpress, and am hoping they're all linked to 1 problem that I can easily fix. I've been googling for hours and just can't ...
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Install translation files that should survive updates [duplicate]
Someone prepared me a .po and a .mo file for a commercial theme we are using.
How can I install them in such a way that future updates won't destroy them?
Putting them into the languages folder was ...
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Are there hooks for WordPress updates?
Pretty much a newbie to WordPress here but was wondering if there are any hooks or anything that could be used to send a notification out if either a WordPress update fails or a plugin update fails?
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Filter Hook on plugin update
Is there a WordPress hook I can use to run a function anytime any plugin is updated?
I am trying to write to a log file with the logged in users IP every time something is updated so I can track ...
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How to receive security update notification email?
I would like to know WordPress security and release update via email? Where can I subscribe email notification?
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New version doesn't show up
I have problem updating my current WordPress version (4.7.2) to the latest (4.7.5).
I have multi-site inside "Network admin dashboard". There is no new version
What can the problem be?
Thanks!
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500 Internal Errors
I am working on updating my current Eduma theme to the newest version (3.0.9.1) I currently have version 3.0.7. I am running WordPress 4.7.5.
However, while running the update I get Update Failed: ...
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Updating modified templates
I want to tweak some of the .php template files in my WordPress theme, and I understand that the correct process is to copy the relevant files into a child theme folder and edit the files there, so ...
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Remote site behind VPN - how to allow core & plugin updates?
I have a WP site that's protected by VPN. Neither the "public" or admin part can be accessed without VPN. As the WP core and plugins grow old they need updating, but keeping track is hard as the WP-...
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How do you manage your theme versions when privately distributing?
I'm working on a theme that I don't want to be public or available via the default WordPress directory, as it's going to be a framework that we use to develop a variety of websites we host.
Now, I ...
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Updates page not showing formating
When I go to the wp-admin/update-core.php page inside the admin with the admin user there is now css formatting. All other admin pages seam fine that I have checked. Does anyone know what could cause ...
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Where does wordpress gets its core and plugin updates
The context:
I have a customer for whom I've installed Wordpress in an internal network, behind several layers of the firewall.
I need to have this WP installation updated on a regular basis
The ...
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Updating WordPress across multiple versions
I need to update WordPress from version 4.4.9 to 4.7.4 also there are 17 plug-ins that need to be updated as well. My question is should I update the plug-ins first, and then proceed to update ...
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Readme.txt seems to be cached but not the version
I know there are a lot of questions on readme.txt in Wordpress but having not succeeded using Google-Fu, I thought I'd ask a question to see if anyone else has come across this.
I have created a ...
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How do I change where a plugin pulls updates from?
I'm trying to write a custom plugin for a few of my clients, and I'd like to serve updates for this plugin from my own server. I tried doing some research on how to do this, but everything I find is ...
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After WooCommerce-Update fucntion not working anymore
I got a problem and I am realy dying on this right now.
I did the WooCommerce Update up to the major 3 version and straight to 3.0.2.
After completet, updated the database. So far so good.
My ...
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Custom theme updater - random string in new theme name
I am making a theme that will be updateable via github.
https://github.com/pallazzio/skeleton
I am trying to use the plugin updater tutorial from smashing magazine, modified for updating a theme ...
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Is there any way to test if a function running only on plugin update is successfully running?
Is there any way to test if a function running only on plugin update is successfully running? Right now I am calling function if WP version present in configuration file is not same as plugin version'...
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Website not updating - no cache plugins active!
I've a problem with my WordPress website getting updated after I make changes to its code:
I'm using phpStorm with auto-save, running the website on WAMP, locally.
Therefore, right after I right new ...
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How long does it take for theme / plugin automatic updates to initiate?
I have the following snippet above That's all, stop editing! via wp-config.php file:
/* Enable automatic updates for WordPress ) */
define( 'WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE', true );
I also have the following ...
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Error updating WP-CLI
Below is the output from my attempt to update wp-cli on Windows 10. Clearly another version is available. Can someone please explain how to make this work?
C:\Users\HP>wp cli update
Error: You can ...
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Automating svn updates from a server-side cron job
I am running WordPress on Ubuntu with Apache and MySQL. I would like to automatically install minor and security updates to WordPress.
However, as I understand it, the standard auto-update ...
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Manually updating Wordpress files
Hi currently have wordpress 4.7 installed . I want to upgrade it 4.7.3 . But wthe problem is that in many of wordpress root folder we have other custom folder and files , that We don't want to lose . ...
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background changed after Wordpress update
I recently updated Wordpress, and it seems to have affected the background images on my site. I had them set to take up the whole screen, but now they show up in their actual size (which is too small ...
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Updating my Wordpress.org version will cause my site to break... What can I do to avoid this?
I created this website for a relative years ago. I'm a noob and not a web developer so I stupidly customized the theme I'm using without creating a child theme. I read that a child theme will cause ...
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Errors when updating plugin through the WordPress plugin repository
I'm working on a plugin that's in the WordPress plugin repository. I've made some changes to the plugin's code. The changes I made were to move code from a large admin.php file into an /admin ...
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Fresh new install or keep old version
After 4 years I'm changing my hosting. I installed wordpress 4 years ago and updated it ever since.
Now that I'm changing host, I was wondering if my site could benefit in terms of performance/...
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Skip file when plugin updated
Is there a way to keep a constant file in my plugin directory so that it doesn't get updated? I'm a developer and would like to have a file for users to add custom functions to in my plugin. When they ...
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Issue after WordPress update
After a recent WP update I get this error message in the back-end. Front-end is working without issues:
Fatal error: Call to a member function add_filter() on array in /...
/wp-includes/plugin....
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An update has caused my client's site to be non-existent after new update of Wordpress [closed]
I revised and backed up my client's site yesterday without any issues. As soon as I clicked the update Wordpress button the new install started then a few seconds later the following popped up on a ...
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