Getting a strange message on websites

Honestly for a lot of users they do not know how to ‘comment out lines in wp-config’ files — even if that were the solution.

Users turn to plugins such as ‘Easy Updates Manager’ because plugins are generally intended to make it easier than either learning how or, taking the time to learn how to delve into code for many issues — (otherwise everyone would just be hand coding all their website needs and not relying on any plugins).

So please let us hope that there is a ‘user-friendly’ solution to this issue that will get rid of this error message.
It continues to crop up on client websites — and frankly it freaks them out.
They have no clue, they think their ‘website is going to fall down or something’ —
and the reality is that the plugin was used to begin with to make it easy for a non-tech savvy client to be able to semi-self-manage their website.

Also it is not a great selling point for using the ISP, when we need to tell a client that this is happening because of a conflict with SiteGround — when in fact the designer may have recommended them to SiteGround in the first place.

So please let us know there is a fix coming that does not include clients needing to comment out lines of code in config files.

Well said. Thank you.

> So please let us know there is a fix coming that does not include clients needing to comment out lines of code in config files.

You misunderstand the message; it is telling you that an irreversible over-ride has been applied. Other than removing it, *is* no other “fix”; WordPress core includes an irreversible over-ride for installs that wish to use it, and your hosting company has activated it. The message is informing you of the situation, and that’s all that is technically possible within a plugin that is inside the WordPress environment. The only way to not show the message about that over-ride is to remove the over-ride.

I read the explanation above — and hate to say , but I am still rather confused —
I guess you are saying that there is no fix for the message? … and to ignore it??

But will the settings a user selects in the plugin actually what end up being what happens or not?

And are you saying that the whole error message is because of SiteGround and something that they are doing ?

Can you please clarify more about this as it is still confusing.
Thank you in advance.

I have the same problem. My website host uses Plesk which sets WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE in wp-config.php, see here.

I’ve just set “don’t update anything” in Plesk and removed the WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE from the config file. It works so far but I have no clue if Plesk will add the WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE setting again…