Enable automatic plugin update for certain plugins [duplicate]
You can do it with this plugin http://wordpress.org/plugins/automatic-updater/ and this tricks : http://optimwise.com/exclude-plugins-advanced-automatic-updates-wordpress-plugin/
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Automatic Theme Upgrade hooks?
If you’re making a radical change in a framework style theme, I would most definitely fork it into a new & separate version. Particularly if it’s going to have a potentially adverse affect on a lot of existing child themes. I’m sure I could come up with a creative way to warn your users of … Read more
Update a WordPress website FROM Twitter or Facebook
You can do this with the If This Then That service. You will have to enable posting via XML-RPC (enabled by default in WP 3.5+), Then you can create a recipe which uses Twitter or FaceBook as the trigger, and WordPress as the action. If you poke around, someone has probably already created these recipes.
Can’t Auto-Update, but permissions are good?
If you’re pretty sure about that the file owner of wordpress folder is as same as that one who runs apache. (use ps aux|grep ‘httpd’ or ps aux|grep ‘apache’) Here is a lousy solution for you: function force_use_direct_fs($method,$args){ if($method != ‘direct’) $method = ‘direct’; return $method; } add_filter(‘filesystem_method’,’force_use_direct_fs’,10,2); Why Would WordPress Request FTP Credentials wp-admin/includes/file.php … Read more
Auto post with filling templates from external data and update periodical
Network requests during page load are very heavy action and should be avoided at all cost. WordPress has wp cron functionality to work with scheduled events and depending on your data requirements you might map data to Custom Post Type, store it in custom table or maybe more simply use caching API such as Transients … Read more
Autoupdate shows current when I’m on 3.1
It is most probably just installing it from a package, it would be quite unwise from a security standpoint to let fantastico load directly from a remote server. Meaning I don´t think they are allowed to do it. Simply install wordpress from ftp should do it.
To merge customized codes upon wordpress update
Yes, WordPress replaces all the resources. No, there is no way to get the updater to merge changes. Even in theory, I doubt you could do that. Even the big version control systems– SVN, GIT– ultimately depend on user judgment. That suggests the only reasonable answer I can think of. You should not be hacking … Read more
Background Updates Not Happening
Background Updates Not Happening
How Do I Configure Automatic Updates in WordPress 3.7?
Automatic updates are automatic. The basic, default behavior in WordPress 3.7 is automatic update of core for minor versions (i.e. X.Y.Z to X.Y.Z+1.) No configuration options are exposed in the UI. To change the behavior, you’ll need to modify your wp-config.php file, or add some filters: Easy Disabling Add the following to wp_config.php: define( ‘AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED’, … Read more
How to disable the “Your site has updated to WordPress x.y.z” admin email?
In your functions.php add: add_filter( ‘auto_core_update_send_email’, ‘__return_false’ );