updates

You should back-up your database and files if you are in any doubt whatsoever. It isn’t particularly hard to do. See this article on Backing Up WordPress, taken from the Codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups

Why not just remove it completely? You can add this to your themes functions.php file: // Hide update notice for everyone except admins function wps_hide_update_notice() { if ( !current_user_can( ‘manage_options’ ) ) { remove_action( ‘admin_notices’, ‘update_nag’, 3 ); } } add_action(‘admin_menu’,’wps_hide_update_notice’);

Let’s start debugging the problem. First let’s make sure that we’re getting into our IF conditional when the form $_POSTs. If you replace your code with this, then submit your form, you should see the message We’ve gotten into the $_POST conditional!” <?php if ( isset( $_POST[‘submit’] ) ) { echo “We’ve gotten into the … Read more

Not able to Update wordpress to 4.0

I re-ran the WordPress update to 4.0 on a backed-up version of the site (files and db) and everything went through without a hitch, so I’m not sure what happened. I did find a plugin (Search and Replace) that helped to replace all of the resultant strings with the ascii html character that they should … Read more

cannot update ftp credentials even when group owner has write access