Well, someone has to be hosting it, so I recommend tracking them down. I’ve taken the liberty of doing this for you (using WhoIsHostingThis?). Your host is IX Web Hosting, contact their customer support and see if you can either get them to do the upgrade for you or, preferably, get them to give you … Read more
How much work is required to maintain WordPress? If you are not maintaining the server itself, very little. Even actual server maintenance doesn’t usually take that much time though. That is, how often are there security updates and new versions that you will probably want? Basically, you want every release. I would not advise skipping … Read more
The “autoupdate” value you see there is just a string in the “response” field from the version check API call. It doesn’t determine whether or not your site actually performs an autoupdate. You’ll see that field in every response returned from core version checks. Basically, it’s just saying that a potential autoupdate is available for … Read more
WordPress 4.0 is not a major update, at least referencing the scheme {major}.{minor}.{patch}. However, WordPress version numbering is explained here, and major versions are identified by the first two numbers, e.g. some recent major versions were 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 4.0, and 4.1 coming in December 2014. WordPress noted in the release post, “4.0 is just … Read more
Yes. Find a theme that support Child Theme. Create a child theme so that your modification doesn’t get deleted if you update the parent theme.
I think what Rarst means is that it is a .file (or hidden file) much like the .htaccess file. If you are browsing your files, there is an option to show hidden files. Once that option is chosen, you will most likely also see the .maintenance file
I ended up duplicated /includes/templates-media-wp41.php and renaming it to templates/media-wp42.php
The problem was caused by about 8 wordpress files in the root directory with a filesize of 0 bytes. Uploading fresh copies of these files (from the latest version downloaded from wordpress.org) solved the initial problem. The subsequent problem has since cleared without any indication of what steps solved it.
HTTPS Warning and Certificate Error when Updating Network
wp_get_archives custom function broken since upgrading to WP 3.7.1