Group ownership permissions don’t allow web server to update WordPress content
Your file and folder ownership seems fine at the beginning. Simply update your wp-config.php file with this line: define(‘FS_METHOD’, ‘direct’);
automatic-updates
Automatic updates only in a predefined maintenance window
Automatic updates only in a predefined maintenance window
Problem with automatic role change through cron job
Problem with automatic role change through cron job
WordPress core auto update fails for UpdraftPlus WordPress Backup Plugin
Seems that the plugin includes SDKs for various cloud storage, which makes it too large for WordPress to carry out an auto update for it. What’s the specific cloud storage do you use for backup? or do you just back up to your VPS? Maybe you can consider turn to an alternative that comes with … Read more
Create cron job for update translations automatically
I found wp cli based solution. These below commands are useful for update translate files for core, themes and plugins: wp language core update wp language theme update –all wp language plugin update –all To schedule these commands, insert this line in crontab: 30 0 * * * wp language core update ; wp language … Read more
What file(s) in core control automatic background updates?
What file(s) in core control automatic background updates?
Automatic updates and merging manual changes
Automatic updates and merging manual changes
WordPress 3.1 not autoupdating
For the sake of this not haunting unanswered questions… WordPress tries its best to deal with filesystem/permission issues when updating and requests access credentials if necessary. So many issues in this department are more likely to be caused by hosting configuration, rather than WP itself. In this specific case PHP safe mode was causing issues, … Read more
How can I fix my server so core/plugins/theme update don’t silently fail?
There is a bug in some versions of PHP itself, unzip hangs. PHP 5.2.17 hangs, PHP 5.3.24 works as expected. PHP Change Log http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.3.4 says PHP Version 5.3.4 released 09-Dec-2010 – “Fixed crash in zip extract method (possible CWE-170)”. (Note: 5.3.24 released 11-April-2013, and is no longer the latest version.) http://lcblog.lernerconsult.com/2013-php-unzip-bug-makes-wordpress-updates-hang/ has the PHP program … Read more
WordPress 3.8.1 update error
The user your server is running as needs to be able to write and modify the files in WordPress core. Namely that the updater was told: Permission denied when it tried to change wp-admin/includes/update-core.php. What the permissions will need to be for this to work are different from server to server. This article talks more … Read more