Holy schmoly shadowpress – what a risky idea. I imagine one could write a cron plugin to do it, BUT what a risk….Already the auto wordpress multi update feature makes it way too tempting to just hit the update button on a bunch of updates in one go. Recommended ‘safe’ procedure for system upgrades is … Read more
Use the Beta Tester Plugin. Be sure to set it to use bleeding edge nightlies, so that you get the pre-releases. Also: once a new major version is final-released, be sure to change the Plugin’s settings back.
You are asking two questions. The one being how can you test an update and the other being how can you run code after an update. You can test a theme update by pushing the updates out your self and testing it if it works. You can do that by using GitHub Updater. If you … Read more
Have a glance at Better Plugin Compatibility Control. I just found this out this morning. I think this does what you’re after.
You can remove you plugin from the updateble list with: add_action( ‘plugins_loaded’, function(){ add_filter( ‘site_transient_update_plugins’, function ( $value ) { if( isset( $value->response[‘google-analytics/google-analytics.php’] ) ) unset( $value->response[‘google-analytics/google-analytics.php’] ); return $value; }); }); Adding this filter will eliminate our homonymous plugin altogether from update checks. And it supposes that we are doing the updates manually via … Read more
If you site is live then you shouldn’t directly update that, although update in the recent version of wordpress is very easy and seemless but that wasn’t the case in 2.1 though. Also here is the list of steps that I will recommend you to take: Make the list of all plugins. Make sure none … Read more
First do not use 777, change it back to 755. Second you need to add the proper group permissions most likely to the same that Apache is running under. To find that out try: ps aux | grep apache You will see the Apache user group on the left. Now change your WordPress folder to … Read more
I’m not aware of any solutions for iterating through and automatically updating your list of plug-ins, but my guess is that any system that can automatically update WordPress itself can be modified to update everything in fairly short order. That said, I know of two good ways to update WordPress automatically: WP Remote This is … Read more
I had that on one of my sites recently (set to auto update core, so not sure if on 3.9 or one of 3.8.*). Flushing cache fixed it — wp cache flush via wp-cli, I imagine other ways would work just as well.
Many plugins use /wp-content/custom-plugin-folder/ to store customized plugin data (WPTouch comes to mind). Just use the constants WP_CONTENT_URL and WP_CONTENT_DIR Docs to check for the existence of your folder and retrieve any available skins. The following article, although not directly related to this Question, explains the importance for plugins/themes to search for translations first in … Read more