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
I got the same problem, site wasn’t loading with Chrome after the update (I guess Firefox/Safari handles this somehow differently), because of those https asset links. Are you using WooCommerce by any chance? After updating that I got my site running again, here is a part of their changelog: Fix – Fixed Google Chrome forcing … Read more
WordPress NOT notifying of new update in dashboard
Have you tried using the WordPress admin panel to configure your auto-updates? You may have better luck there. It should be found under your “Dashboard > Updates”. If you do not see it there, there is also the option of a plugin to help manage it for you: Automatic Updater for WordPress
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I’m afraid reverting would depend on how major the upgrade was. A WP upgrade can change the database structure as well as the core code. Your first step though should be to disable all plugins and see if the site runs without them. If so, enable them one by one until you find the problem … Read more
$_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’] is something you should not rely on. This can be anything from: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/53.0.2785.143 Safari/537.36 to ☆*:｡゜ﾟ･*ヽ(^ᴗ^)ﾉ*･゜ﾟ｡:*☆ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯(ಠ益ಠ)(ಥ‿ಥ)(ʘ‿ʘ)ლ(ಠ_ಠლ)( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ヽ(ﾟДﾟ)ﾉʕ•̫͡•ʔᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ(=^ ^=)oO So you need to thinker something other to rely upon. Why don’t you simply use form action do-theme-upgrade? File: wp-admin/update-core.php 336: function list_theme_updates() { … Read more
To update wordpress define following constant in your wp-config.php file define(‘FS_METHOD’, ‘direct’); define( ‘FS_CHMOD_DIR’, 0777 ); define( ‘FS_CHMOD_FILE’, 0777 ); define(‘FTP_BASE’, ‘/var/www/test/’);//project directory define(‘FTP_CONTENT_DIR’, ‘/var/www/test/wp-content/’); //define wp-content directory path define(‘FTP_PLUGIN_DIR ‘, ‘/var/www/test/wp-content/plugins/’); //define plugins directory path define( ‘WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE’, true ); //define ftp details define(‘FTP_USER’, ‘test’); define(‘FTP_PASS’, ‘test@123’); define(‘FTP_HOST’, ‘ftp.test.com’); Hope this will help you to … Read more