Updating client websites on a regular basis

I don’t think there’s a best solution, but whatever you decide to do, speak to the client about the issues, reach an agreement and put it in writing. I think it’s important to discuss why we are using WordPress/theme frameworks/3rd party plugins, and what that means. The advantages: vastly reduced development time, a great community, … Read more

Auto backup before automatic WordPress updates

you should be able to use this hook which fires just before an auto update: do_action( ‘pre_auto_update’, $type, $item, $context ); $type can be ‘core’, ‘theme’, ‘plugin’, ‘translation’ a specific solution would depend on your particular backup plugin/service, but as long as this plugin/service provides either suitable hooks or an API it should be doable … Read more

Unable to update wordpress

This is a permissions (solved by chmod) issue. You don’t have enough privileges (755 at least) for WordPress to update. This also means you can’t write to wp-uploads and so on. Check this out: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18352682/correct-file-permissions-for-wordpress

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