There is no dedicated way to check a version of WP install remotely. On other hand this isn’t really complicated, you could scrape a page for generator meta tag or just readme.html of WP core since you would know exact location of it. For checking what’s available you can call to WordPress org updates API, … Read more
Manually updating WordPress fixes this issue. Upgrading WordPress Core Manually (How To) WordFence Reference First create a full backup of your website. This is very important in case you make a mistake. Download the newest WordPress ZIP file from wordpress.org. Unzip the file into a directory on your local machine or in a separate directory … Read more
Known bug, working on it: https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2750 Always check the tickets first.
You should be able to back up your site through your hosting control panel. This is a better option than adding bloat to your WP install to duplicate functionality you already have elsewhere.
If you have this statement (by default) in your wp-config file define( ‘WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE’, true ); Then WP core files are automatically updated for you. This assumes that you have traffic to your site (if nobody ever visits your site, the updates won’t happen.) So your solution is actually causing more work by the server, and … Read more
First, please check this out: https://codex.wordpress.org/Must_Use_Plugins In most cases mu plugins consist of a singular php file in that directory. In that case you could just replace the file. In any case, there is neither a process for installation nor uninstallation, you simply drop files in that dir or delete them from it. It’s as … Read more
You’re looking for profile_update & user_register. user_register is called after a user is created. add_action( ‘user_register’, ‘myplugin_registration_save’, 10, 1 ); function myplugin_registration_save( $user_id ) { // Do stuff with $user_id } profile_update is called after a user is updated. add_action( ‘profile_update’, ‘my_profile_update’, 10, 2 ); function my_profile_update( $user_id, $old_user_data ) { // Do stuff with … Read more
First of all you can follow WordPress Blog and its Releases category. Another great source of information on that is page with WordPress Versions on Codex – here you can find info on every version – link to changelog (very useful – it contains list of changed files and links to trac tickets solved in … Read more
According to Codex: The only current officially supported version is WordPress 5.0.3. Previous major releases before this may or may not get security updates as serious exploits are discovered. So, as you can see, the official version is that only the newest version is supported and only that version guarantees that you’ll get security updates. … Read more
Is it possible to update the only theme? if yes how should we check the compatibility with current WordPress version we have. Yes, you can manually download a particular version of the theme from .org site. There isn’t a UI for it, but if I take the current twentynineteen download link: https://downloads.wordpress.org/theme/twentynineteen.1.3.zip I can change … Read more