You could create a cronjob that runs on 1am every 24 hours. With WP CLI this would be something like: wp core update && wp plugin update –all && wp theme update So you just create a .sh script, put the above in it, and run the script with a cronjob.
TLDR: That paragraph is incorrect. So How Does WordPress Handle Permissions For Auto-Update? WordPress runs as the user that PHP runs as, which on most servers is some form of www user. It uses that user to perform the update. If that user cannot write to those files, it falls back to other WP_Filesystem providers. … Read more
The setting you are looking for is found in “Settings”=>”General”=>”E-Mail Adress”. All the Emails WordPress or Plugins send out are sent to the admin_mail, which is returned by get_option( ‘admin_mail’ ), and this Emailadress is not always connected to a user. If you first install WordPress, the first user created gets the role administrator, and … Read more
Try flushing out the transient data(options prefixed with _site_transient_update_ – wp_options table), WP will recreate them for you anyway. Not always a solution but tends to work for me when i have that problem. You can do this by adding the following lines to your current theme’s functions.php (in wp-content/themes/YOURTHEME/functions.php). delete_option( ‘_site_transient_update_core’ ); delete_option( ‘_site_transient_update_themes’ … Read more
To answer your question directly, you can use the file_mod_allowed filter to override the DISALLOW_FILE_MODS setting for the automatic updates only. Here is an example of how to do it: add_filter(‘file_mod_allowed’, ‘override_file_mod_allowed’, 10, 2); function override_file_mod_allowed($setting, $context){ if ($context == ‘automatic_updater’){ return true; } return $setting; } The second option, as someone suggested to me … Read more
Auto update doesn’t always work, it almost always works. I’d just upgrade manually and not worry about it. The few times I’ve had an auto update failure it succeeds the next time a new version comes out (after I’m manually updated during the breakage).
Found a fix. Simply add the following snippet to functions.php for your theme: if(is_admin()) { add_filter(‘filesystem_method’, create_function(‘$a’, ‘return “direct”;’ )); define( ‘FS_CHMOD_DIR’, 0751 ); }
There’s the site_status_tests filter, to e.g. remove the asynchronous background updates tests: add_filter( ‘site_status_tests’, function ( $tests ) { unset( $tests[‘async’][‘background_updates’] ); return $tests; } ); But one could argue that this is just hiding information from the user. Ticket #46733 suggests instead e.g. “…ignored tests section, hidden away like the Passed tests“, so the … Read more
Adding this filter in a must-use plugin or functions.php will allow automatic updates even if the site is under version control: add_filter( ‘automatic_updates_is_vcs_checkout’, ‘__return_false’, 1 ); From https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/automatic_updates_is_vcs_checkout/
A website is just like any other software product, any change need to go through QA stage first, no matter how trivial it might seem. This is why you should always test all updates on a staging/dev server before pushing it to production. As always it comes down to a question of ROI. Simple blogs … Read more