the customer does not want to administer the site, and has requested that there will be no maintenance on the site With these requirements, I usually don’t use WordPress but build a good ol’ HTML page. You can basically do this with your WordPress site now as well. Just scrape HTML, JS, CSS and images. … Read more
Auto update error messages
How to know current auto-update status of the WordPress core?
If you are having problems with the auto upgrade, just download a fresh copy and drag + drop the folders in your FTP client, make sure you select to “merge” so you don’t overwrite your wp-config.php or wp-content folder (in fact take backups!). Then as soon as you go to the wp-admin WP will prompt … Read more
Something like this should do the trick using JS to set the title on initial load of a new post. You will not need to differentiate between publish/draft etc. and you can let WordPress sanitize. function set_post_title( $post ) { global $current_user; if( get_post_type() != ‘interviews’ || $post->post_status != ‘auto-draft’ ) return; $uniqueid_length = 8; … Read more
Since no one was able to answer my question, I will do so myself since I found the answer this morning. When executing the API call for fetching plugin information, the response object must contain a banners array: $response->banners = [ ‘low’ => ‘http://yourdomain.com/banner_772x250.png’, ‘high’ => ‘http://yourdomain.com/banner_1544x500.png’, ]; Images need to be called “low” (exactly … Read more
Call wp_maybe_auto_update(); function after the init hook. Or follow this method http://blog.birdhouse.org/2013/11/02/force-wordpress-auto-update/
I need to determine what user the WordPress update process thinks it is since it is not the user that runs all the other pages and posts as I have all files and folders owner by apache. The WordPress update process has no idea which user it’s running as, nor does it care. It doesn’t … Read more
In wp-config.php add // Disable all wordpress auto updates. define(‘AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED’, true); define(‘WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE’, false); In functions.php add // Disable auto plugin updates add_filter(‘auto_update_plugin’, ‘__return_false’); // Disable auto theme updates add_filter(‘auto_update_theme’, ‘__return_false’);
In order for the update to occur, the site would have had to receive some form of traffic. Any traffic which loaded WordPress would do. Alternatively, anything which started the wp-cron.php process would trigger the update as well, like if you have it set to run that with a normal cron.