How to check plugin compatibility before upgrading WordPress
Have a glance at Better Plugin Compatibility Control. I just found this out this morning. I think this does what you’re after.
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How to avoid plugin name conflicts from the upgrade notifier?
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
How can I migrate a super old version (2.0) of my blog to 3.1?
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
Could not create directory /wp-content/upgrade/
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
Real automated and unattended wordpress upgrade including plugins
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
WordPress 3.9 Database Update Infinite Loop
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.
How to customize a plugin whilst maintaining ability to upgrade
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
Upgrade from 5.0.4 to 5.1.1 causes $theme to be null
Since Changeset 44524, which has landed in WordPress 5.1, the variable $theme is now a global variable set by WordPress which also gets unset after the themes have been bootstrapped: // Load the functions for the active theme, for both parent and child theme if applicable. foreach ( wp_get_active_and_valid_themes() as $theme ) { if ( … Read more
WP upgrade can’t create directory even though perms are 777 [closed]
You need to run the chown command on whole wp-content directory: chown www-data:www-data /path/to/wp-content/ -R
Plugin upgrading: Widget settings
I’ve did a quick test on just changing the option and it seems to work. What I did is: Wrote a widget that has just 2 fields: “Title” and “Name”. Add several instances of this widget to my sidebars. Been sure that they are shown correctly in frontend. Edited the class to use 3 fields: … Read more