Updating WordPress or plugins causes site issues (due to API, I think)
Updating WordPress or plugins causes site issues (due to API, I think)
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How to update WordPress plugins properly using git?
No it’s fine, lots of hosts depend on plugins being stored in git this way and it isn’t an issue. You can replicate the process by manually updating a file locally to test. Plugin authors tend to store a database version field, and update if it’s mismatched, or they rely on functions such as dbdelta … Read more
cURL error 28: SSL connection timeout while can download the plugin file
cURL error 28: SSL connection timeout while can download the plugin file
Hook or function to check if performing a WP Core update?
Hook or function to check if performing a WP Core update?
Is updating from a zip file the same as a regular update? [closed]
As @PatJ commented, a ZIP file just contains files. Those files are extracted and placed in the proper folder, overwriting any existing files of the same name. When a plugin is updated, the process gets the ZIP file from the WordPress repository, and installs it into a temporary folder. The update process then, after all … Read more
Problem updating from 3.6 to 3.7
I’m also having the same problem. Plugin Updates work fine, but WordPress 3.7 (or the new 3.7.1 update) fail. Manual updating via copying over the wordpress core files worked to update to 3.7, but the 3.7.1 update fails again. I then changed nginx.conf and added in the http part (read it somewhere else – it’s … Read more
Manually updating WordPress files
Updating WordPress through the dashboard will only affect WordPress files. No other files will be touched. Do the updates in the admin dashboard. Only files that need to be updated will be updated. Even WordPress files that don’t need updating will not be touched.
Avoid loosing changes to theme
Your content (data) is stored in the database. If you don’t update the content, it will remain unchanged. Themes are mostly for data presentation (if there is no niche specialization on updating content). So, in the majority of cases, when you change the theme files, you don’t change the content itself. To be sure you … Read more
WordPress 4.8.2 redirects back after install and asks to delete/change config
from: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32686663/error-the-file-wp-config-php-already-exists Is just a browser cache. On first URL load, you are redirected from domain.ext to domain.ext/wp-admin/setup-config.php If you are on Chrome, just open the developers console, go to “Network” tab. Reload the page and right click anywhere in the console, and hit “Clear browser cache”. Now refresh again and you will see your … Read more
If I place custom files in WordPress root, will they be deleted?
Taken from this link there are several other options for adding your own CSS, if you don’t want to put it in the theme: Use Theme Options and paste in CSS Use a plugin to insert CSS/JS. You could also write your own plugin to ‘host’ the CSS file neatly in wp-content/plugins/ somewhere. Use a … Read more