Plugins showing updates when none available

I’ve seen this on a couple of my sites, too. I *think* it may have something to do with server-based caching, but I haven’t figured it out yet.

Just for my info, where is your site hosted and are you using any caching plugins?

Same issue here. 23 plugins “needed to be updated” post upgrade. Figured overnight crons would fix the issue and they did but only for a day or so. Have cleared server side redis cacheing and rebooted server to no avail.

One of the sites is on my own server. I’m going to play around with it tomorrow. I’ll let you know if I find anything dispositive.

Using the health-check plugin, I can clear the flag if I disable all plugins (and then click re-check), so it’s got to be one of the plugins. Next task is to figure out which one.

Do you have Formidable installed? That seems to be the issue for me. I have put in a ticket at Formidable support.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by Steven Stern (sterndata).

I am seeing this issue too. I can confirm that after deactivating Formidable Forms and Formidable Pro the update count goes back to zero. When those plugins are reactivated, the update count again shows a false number (like 19 or 25).

Thank you for submitting the ticket with Formidable. I’ll wait to see if an update fixes the issue.

I got this response to my ticket:

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Hi Steven,
Sorry for the trouble this issue is causing you, and thanks for letting us know! Since most of our test sites have all add-ons installed, we didn’t see this issue since the count is for the add-ons you don’t have installed.

This issue has been fixed for the next release. In the meantime, you can either ignore it or add a small fix. If you’d like to fix it now, you can open formidable/classes/controllers/FrmAddonsController.php and go to line 331:
$wp_plugin = isset( $wp_plugins[ $folder ] ) ? $wp_plugins[ $folder ] : array();

Right before this line, add:

if ( ! file_exists( WP_PLUGIN_DIR . '/' . $folder . '/' ) ) {
continue;
}

Also a formidable user, thanks for the updates legends!

Thanks for sharing the response @sterndata. Nice to know what’s causing the problem. I will wait for the update since the issue seems harmless and I would have to update the code in over sixty sites!

Thanks for helping to track this down. Yes, I have Formidable installed. I never expected that, even though that is the plugin I have installed on my site having the issue when my other two sites do not have the problem.