In short, yes the – $wpdb class. See Codex for more information. Whenever you interact with a custom table (or any table, really) you should go through $wpdb – in particularly make sure you’re familiar with the prepare method which can help escapes queries and prevent injections. You should be familiar with already, as you … Read more
Essentially, WordPress needs to connect back to the server where it is actually running on. There are several possible ways WordPress can use to write files and thus “overwrite” itself during an upgrade. From a security perspective, the important part of this process is that the new files must have the same ownership as the … Read more
Adding these two lines to “wp-config.php” worked for me. I had the same issue. define( ‘CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS’, false ); define( ‘SCRIPT_DEBUG’, true ); Also, remember to clear cache on server and browser.
From my perspective there are two issues with your plan – Git and “conventional” structure. So basically everything. 🙂 Git (and version control in general) is a poor tool for whole site stacks. Been there, done that, it hurt a lot. What you call an “unconventional” structure with content separated from core has been a … Read more
The only reason why the 3.3.3 milestone was marked as completed is because leaving the milestone open interfered with our ticket reports for 3.4.1. (I forgot that milestone closures are reflected in the timeline.) Generally speaking, we assign tickets to the next minor milestone if they are reporting an immediate regression. So, a regression in … Read more
In wp-admin/includes/update.php file if ( current_user_can(‘update_core’) ) $msg = sprintf( __(‘An automated WordPress update has failed to complete – <a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/231010/%s”>please attempt the update again now</a>.’), ‘update-core.php’ ); else $msg = __(‘An automated WordPress update has failed to complete! Please notify the site administrator.’); We can see that messages are different based on the current … Read more
Using WP-CLI you can specify this as described in the official documentation. $ wp plugin update <plugin> Using either of the following arguments –minor Only perform updates for minor releases (e.g. from 1.3 to 1.4 instead of 2.0) –patch Only perform updates for patch releases (e.g. from 1.3 to 1.3.3 instead of 1.4) –version=<version> If … Read more
In my case, it was simply the SITE URL left blank in Settings -> General. I filled it with my site URL, and everything started working again. I found out by enabling WP_DEBUG in wp-config.php, and I got this error: “Notice: Undefined index: host”
You can also hook into the core update routine. (I’m looking for tutorial links, but my Google-fu is failing me this morning.) EDIT: See if this tutorial helps. It explains how to implement automatic upgrades for private/commercial (i.e. non-repository-hosted) Plugins.
Try to make a new admin user in the db. Follow these steps you should be able to create a new admin user, then update and then you can give your old user admin rights again. Or use the new user. Your old user might have wrong setting in the DB http://www.dnawebagency.com/how-to-add-an-admin-user-to-the-wordpress-database