You can’t. You can only mitigate at expense to yourself. People determined to do this will achieve their goal regardless of how many obstacles you place in their path The GPL means you can’t control how people use the code once you put it in their hands, and you can’t prevent them modifying it Nothing … Read more
By default WordPress automatically updates itself, plugins, and themes. If your WordPress install doesn’t do that then you probably have something that disables this. You can check your theme for something like this add_filter(‘auto_update_plugin’, ‘__return_false’); add_filter(‘auto_update_theme’, ‘__return_false’); And/Or in your wp-config.php define(‘AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED’, true); define(‘WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE’, false); If your WordPress is not on a local machine and … Read more
How to update changes to multiple sites at the same time
Hook or function to check if performing a WP Core update?
I found a solution: function my_function_to_run_on_autoupdate(array $results ): void { // Iterate through the plugins being updated and check if ours is there. foreach ( $results[‘plugin’] as $plugin ) { if ( isset( $plugin->item->slug ) && strlen( $plugin->item->slug ) > 0 // ‘your-plugin-slug’ is usually the folder name of your plugin && $plugin->item->slug === ‘your-plugin-slug’ … Read more
Your ‘uploaded-plugin’.zip must contain all your plugin files in subdirectory named as your plugin subdirectory (in example “my-plugin”).
I ran across this a few weeks ago with a client site – maybe this will help. /** * Debug Pending Updates * * Crude debugging method that will spit out all pending plugin * and theme updates for admin level users when ?debug_updates is * added to a /wp-admin/ URL. */ function debug_pending_updates() { … Read more
Saving this data persistently seems like excessive approach. Since there is no human input (only logic), there is no benefit to storing results – just keep the logic. More so if logic changes next week you won’t need to re-save everything. Basically I would instead during output check is post has value and if not … Read more
Contact GoDaddy for support. It’s their server that’s having issues (a 500 error is a server configuration error).
A list of options, easier ones first. Run WordPress as a multisite network, you can find instructions here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network Manually apply changes via .zip file and overwriting. Download latest zip from wordpress.org Make a backup of your file base per install Unpack the zip files then overwrite files in wp-admin and wp-includes. Overwrite root files … Read more