@Kika is right that you have an older, insecure, version of OpenSSL. This sounds like: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-download-failed-error0d0890a1asn1-encoding-routinesfunc137reason I wrote a small bit of code to skip the SSL test when trying to access the download server. It is not a good idea to use this code but will get you out of a pinch. <?php /* … Read more
Here is a full documentation for how to do this: Github updater – Documentation Upload in wordpress Download the latest tagged archive (choose the “zip” option). Unzip the archive, rename the folder correctly to github-updater, then re-zip the file. Go to the Plugins -> Add New screen and click the Upload tab. Upload the zipped … Read more
This is a known issue and will be taken care of soon, assuming you are using the “Twenty Eleven” theme: see this link. The bundled Twenty Eleven theme has some styling issues for pages with sidebars (See Trac ticket #36510)
As you mentioned, a child theme is designed exactly for the purpose of not losing your changes upon updating the parent theme. Updating the child theme is not always mandatory, however there might be cases that you should do so. Consider this: You update the parent, and the update removes some of core functions, which … Read more
When you look at the plugin description (and other sections), it all comes from the current version README.TXT file. So if you upload a changed version of README.TXT to the current version’s repository (not changing the repository version number), the newly updated README.TXT file information is shown on the page. This is great for updating … Read more
Since version 3.7 WordPress has automatic background updates. By default, only minor releases – such as for maintenance and security purposes – and translation file updates are enabled on most sites. In special cases, plugins and themes may be updated. Of course, as with many things in WP, you can modify that behavior with config … Read more
Hide Update reminder – this hides update messages for all non-admin users
The updater works based on the plugin’s installation path and the name of the file containing the header. I’m guessing both plugins are housed in a /breadcrumbs folder (since that seems to be Yoast’s setup. Though Yoast’s plugin uses yoast-breadcrumbs.php for its main file. I’m assuming you’re using a different filename, so you have indeed … Read more
Because of the stateless nature of webpages, you can’t do this without a high margin of error. You can install a plugin to log last visits for logged in users, but that will not tell you if they’re editing posts or if they loaded a page then went to lunch or shut down their computer. … Read more
The first argument is the plug-in’s ‘slug’. The plug-in slug is determined by the location of the .php file header containing the comment header necessary for plug-ins. (see source). If your main plug-in file might be ~/wp-content/plugins/foo/bar.php, while your plug-in slug is foo/bar.php. If the wp-content dir has a custom name, you can retrieve it … Read more