you can try doing a manual update, so as long as you didn’t make any changes to the WordPress core files(if you did I suggest you take note of them and reapply after the upgrade), just head over to WordPress.org download the latest WordPress package and copy it over to your root folder on the … Read more
There is get_core_updates(). Note that you might need to manually include admin file that declares it, if running in front end and such. Example use: require_once ABSPATH . ‘/wp-admin/includes/update.php’; print_r( get_core_updates() ); Example return: Array ( [0] => stdClass Object ( [response] => latest [download] => http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.4.2.zip [locale] => en_US [packages] => stdClass Object ( … Read more
Do you have any kind of cache plugin used? Perhaps to help speed up the website. If Yes that just may be the issue here. Another suggestion is change the current active theme to any default WP theme (twentyThirteen, TwentyFourteen), and then see if Preview give you an issue. If it does not, then its … Read more
WordPress will check twice a day ( 12 hours ). This time can drift because WordPress doesn’t use traditional server cronjobs but cheap cronjobs which rely on user actions to trigger them such as viewing a page. So it could be 13 hours for when the updates are trigger but it still won’t run automatically, … Read more
I have not found a way to change the frequency that is why I use WP-CLI for updating WordPress, plugins, themes and language files. Anyway I prefer to do it scheduled on a defined time e.g. nightly. With a Cronjob you can execute as many times a day you want. I use this commands: cd … Read more
Blocking the server from your hosts to prevent auto updating won’t hide notifications in the back office. You have to add some code in your functions.php file. The answer you are looking for is perfectly explained here You should add these 3 portions of code at the bottom of you functions.php file : The first … Read more
I would formulate your requirements like this: repository should capture complete and precise state of site updates should be tested locally and pushed to production database update events should run in production reliably Sticking with Git alone that would indeed mean that you need to install updates locally and commit them into repository. As for … Read more
add_action has a priority parameter which is 10 by default, you can increase that to load your function late. Change add_action( ‘save_post’, ‘do_custom_save’ ); to add_action( ‘save_post’, ‘do_custom_save’, 100 ); Now the priority is to set to 100 and will load quite late and will allow other function associated to load before this function is … Read more
Yes it is. Though perhaps not in the way you might be thinking. If you check out some of the shared hosting sites, many of them have the capability to automatically update your WordPress site. Of course, as Milo has said, it can be rather disastrous too. Especially on a site with lots of plugins … Read more
This is a fantastic question – I’ve personally never run into this before, but here’s what I’d try, assuming: you have an image of a server that you’ve been using to spin up new instances you’re using a CDN and cloud storage for images and uploads (rather than having a local uploads folder) With those … Read more