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Modifying third-party themes should be avoided in the first place. Creating a child theme is the proper way to customize a third-party theme because it allows for the parent theme to be updated without worrying about having your customizations overwritten when updating. Being able to update is important for security and it’s nice to be … Read more

Force update widget customizer using js

Widgets in core presently do not make this easy. Please read Live Widget Previews: Widget Management in the Customizer in WordPress 3.9, and in particular the section “No more Update button (usually)”: Widget forms on the admin page have a familiar Save button. In previous versions of Widget Customizer, we adapted the Save button to … Read more

How to allow theme update downloads to WordPress installs only?

$_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’] is something you should not rely on. This can be anything from: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/53.0.2785.143 Safari/537.36 to ☆*:｡゜ﾟ･*ヽ(^ᴗ^)ﾉ*･゜ﾟ｡:*☆ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯(ಠ益ಠ)(ಥ‿ಥ)(ʘ‿ʘ)ლ(ಠ_ಠლ)( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ヽ(ﾟДﾟ)ﾉʕ•̫͡•ʔᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ(=^ ^=)oO So you need to thinker something other to rely upon. Why don’t you simply use form action do-theme-upgrade? File: wp-admin/update-core.php 336: function list_theme_updates() { … Read more

Plugins download & install fine, wordpress update fails

To update wordpress define following constant in your wp-config.php file define(‘FS_METHOD’, ‘direct’); define( ‘FS_CHMOD_DIR’, 0777 ); define( ‘FS_CHMOD_FILE’, 0777 ); define(‘FTP_BASE’, ‘/var/www/test/’);//project directory define(‘FTP_CONTENT_DIR’, ‘/var/www/test/wp-content/’); //define wp-content directory path define(‘FTP_PLUGIN_DIR ‘, ‘/var/www/test/wp-content/plugins/’); //define plugins directory path define( ‘WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE’, true ); //define ftp details define(‘FTP_USER’, ‘test’); define(‘FTP_PASS’, ‘test@123’); define(‘FTP_HOST’, ‘ftp.test.com’); Hope this will help you to … Read more

Page view displays not properly after update wordpress

Why all my wordpress sites keeps telling me that everything is up to date at /wp-admin/update-core.php?

Issue after WordPress update

According to the official support thread, you can: Check out if you have the latest version downloaded and installed on your website. Head over to My Account -> Downloads on your WPML account. If you need help updating, you can check this out. If none of the above helped you, consider submitting a support ticket … Read more

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

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