Questions tagged [upgrade]
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Permissions issue when trying to update WordPress
I'm upgrading multisite to 3.5.1 and it did not allow me to do automatic upgrading I see this message:
"To perform the requested action, WordPress needs to access your web
server. Please enter ...
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Wordpress 3.9 Database Update Infinite Loop
I recently updated my blog's Wordpress version to 3.9. After running the update I received this message upon trying to access the admin panel.
Database Update Required
WordPress has been ...
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Site stuck in "Database Update Required" loop
I just updated to 3.1.3 and now when I go to the admin I get the "Database Update Required" /wp-admin/upgrade.php screen. I click 'Upgrade Now' and it says it's done, but then trying to access ...
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Best Way to Upgrade from WP 2.8 (!)?
I offered a friend to help translate from English some parts of his (mostly) Hebrew install. Then he told me two things:
1) That he's running 2.8 (he was worried about updating because he didn't ...
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Wordpress Update Plugin Hook/Action? Since 3.9
I've researched this a few times, yet my searching does not reveal much except custom code which may or may not be good WordPress practice.
As of the latest releases (WordPress 3.9 "Smith"), has a ...
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Cleanup uploads folder, Media Library db structure
I am doing an upgrade and cleanup of an old blog that started on Blogger.com, then moved to self-hosted WordPress 2.1, 2.3 and now 3.0. Images in the posts are scattered around: most of them are in /...
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Could not create directory /wp-content/upgrade/
When I try to automatically install updates to Wordpress or plugins, I receive an error:
An error occurred while updating... Could not create directory
.../wp-content/upgrade/...
My web host ...
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How to preserve PHP modifications while upgrading WordPress?
I made a lot of custom modifications in the PHP code of my WordPress blog. Namely in: archive.php, blog.php, footer.php, functions.php, header.php, search.php
To provide customized search results, ...
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"Upgrade Network" error: stuck with SSL certificate verification
When trying to update one Network/MU install, I got the following error.
Warning! Problem updating https://subdomain-A.example.com. Your server may not be able to connect to sites running on it. ...
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How to allow registered users to change their user role through frontend?
From time to time i want to give my registered users the chance to upgrade their user role by themselves for free. I tried this by writing a little plugin, but sady i can't get the html form to show ...
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Site needs massive upgrade - how to proceed?
I have a former customer who, contrary to my recommendations, has not stayed on top of their WP upgrades. They now need to make the leap from 3.5.1 to 4.1.1 (or whatever is current at the moment). ...
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Missing argument 2 for wpdb::prepare() Issue
I'm having to update a WP installation for a community organisations from version 2.9.1 to the current 3.9.1.
The installation has a couple of custom built plugins that aren't documented.
I've just ...
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Real automated and unattended wordpress upgrade including plugins
I'm looking for a truly automated way to upgrade wordpress and its plugins, something that i could put in the crontab and configure it to run daily.
I have several wordpress plugins (>20) and a multi-...
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WP upgrade can't create directory even though perms are 777 [closed]
I'm trying to upgrade to WP 3 but I'm getting a weird error when I try to do so:
Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.0.4.zip.
Unpacking the update.
Could not create directory: /...
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How can I migrate a super old version (2.0) of my blog to 3.1?
I can't use any of the import plugins because of the older version -- so it's kind of a pain, plus the URL permalinks arent very optimal. Any ideas on how to do this? I'm afraid I'd have to do this ...
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How to avoid plugin name conflicts from the upgrade notifier?
I've wrapped a quick hack as a plugin to add Google Analytics to my site. Named it "Google Analytics" and, sure enough, WP offered me to upgrade my v0.1 plugin to some random plugin from the plugin ...
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Add Media has stopped working in the front end since 4.5 update
I've got a page that calls wp_editor in the front end. Since upgrading to 4.5, the Add Media button no longer does anything at all.
It works fine if you call it in the admin section. There's no word ...
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Hook (upgrader_process_complete) running moment
i want to use the upgrader_process_complete (documentation) to check if my plugin was updated (to run some scripts).
My question is: when this action is triggered, WordPress is already running the ...
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Upgrade Wordpress Database from 2.6 to 3.2
I'm trying to migrate an old wordpress site to a new host - the old installation hasn't been updated for a while and is still on 2.6.5 while the new install is 3.2.1 (current). Unfortunately the old ...
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Why did my manual upgrade fail?
I have an old intranet site running on 3.6.2 and tried to manually upgrade it to 4.1.1. After moving the files over the site just "spins". I have manually upgraded our sites literally 100 times (...
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Is database safe after merging a branch of a more recent version over an older one?
Use case:
2 git branches:
staging (wp4.7x -- or whatever)
production (wp4.7x -- or whatever)
Then I do a wordpress update on staging.
Then merge staging files on production.
At this point, I will ...
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WP already installed is asking to install
Hey guys, i did a mistake on a wp site, i uploaded a wrong wp-config.php file on the server during a 3.1 update, saw the mistake, recreated a good one with the good infos, uploaded the file and didnt ...
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TinyMCE in Custom Metabox not loaded after upgrading from WP 3.1.4 to WP 3.2
I want something very simple: a custom metabox with a TinyMCE editor in it.
The following code help me achieve that easily in 3.1.4:
add_action( 'add_meta_boxes', 'add_metaname_box');
function ...
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WordPress plugin DB upgrade
I am writing plugin. I have added 1 custom table in database.
Suppose my plugin's current version is 1.0
After few days i am upgrading plugin and now its version 1.2.
Same for after some time and now ...
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How to configure site for automatic upgrades
I have a WP site running on Ubuntu 11.04. I set the apache www-data user to have write permissions on the entire wordpress directory recursively. This made it possible to update the plugins ...
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How to prepare images for a layout width change?
I maintain a site that will get a new layout, with a new width for the content area (currently 390px, say 500px for the new width). Many images (but not all) are sized to the current width (some are ...
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Wordpress MU 2.9.2 to 3.0.5 changes to category.php
In the latest version of WP I see the category.php page is now using edit-tags.php.
The version Im running seems to have an issue with the search feature on this page whereas the new version doesnt. ...
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How to run a test WordpressMu to Wordpress3 update?
Currently I am running a wordpress MU site with ~100 blogs. It's Wordpress MU version 2.8.x
Because it was so heavily used, I was asked not to update to Wordpress 3 right away. The users are ...
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Getting rid of files not used by latest upgrade
After doing a Wordpress upgrade I notice that there are some files that have an old creation date. Am I safe to delete these on the assumption that they were part of the previous release and so aren't ...
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