WordPress site auto updates for no reason
WordPress will always automatically update,if you want to stop it use: define( ‘AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED’, true );
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Automating svn updates from a server-side cron job
I would rather keep the WordPress php files and directory owned by someone other than www-data, and leave them read-only to www-data Well, why not? Just do it, but after it subscribe by hand to any (from at least two) channel of “Release Notification” (low activity, еasily controlled even by the eyes): mail list or … Read more
Meta query broken since 4.7.4 Update
I just found the problem, though I cannot explain why or how things went the way they did – the date to compare events by had the wrong date format: date( ‘d-m-Y’ ) should have been date( ‘Y-m-d’ ). The comparison worked until the update, so something must’ve changed about the way WordPress stores date … Read more
Can’t access dashboard after 4.8.1 automatic upgrade
As mentioned in the comments, the first place to look is the error log. That will usually point you to an error in a plugin. You can disable an individual plugin by renaming it’s folder. You can quickly disable all plugins by renaming the plugins folder. If you rename the entire plugin folder, then create … Read more
Update (a function) post’s featured image as soon as $image_url changes
Once you get URL of the image from Instagram and you know id of the post, you can use use the function from your question. You have to modify the code for the only if statement in it: if( wp_mkdir_p( $upload_dir[ ‘path’ ] ) ) { $file = $upload_dir[ ‘path’ ] . “https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/” . $filename; … Read more
Will WordPress Auto Update work on a site with Basic Authentication enabled?
Yes, it will work. For Updates, WP reaches out to the update servers, there is no incoming request that is necessary. Your WP doesn’t even have to be publicly reachable at all, you can have it behind a NAT router and (auto-) updates will still work just fine.
Is it possible to issue a theme update that requires a new plugin?
You should never deactivate or uninstall or even install any thing which is not part of your theme without explicit user consent. If a theme can not work without a plugin, its functionality should be shipped as part of the theme, or it just have to live with whatever bug that plugin has. The best … Read more
Possible to automatically update plugin without user interaction
If you upload it to the WordPress repository it should be able to auto-update (if you’re not blocking this setting as explained on this page).
How to force an update of WordPress core to a newer minor version, using the Dashboard?
How to force an update of WordPress core to a newer minor version, using the Dashboard?
Update a previous version of plugin when the new plugin is built from the scratch
If you put your plugin in the WP Repository, and change the version number in the readme.txt file put the new code in a new ‘tags’ folder with the version as the folder name also put the new code in the root of your repository (and I also put it in the ‘trunk’ folder and … Read more