Update Notifier plugin still sending email notices…

I believe you must have the WP-Security-Scanner plugin running. This changes the global $wp_version to be ‘abc’.

The fix for this is commenting out line 53 in securityscan.php, the line which reads:
add_action("init",mrt_remove_wp_version,1);

I’m updating this plugin to include a warning about this and some stuff in the FAQ.

Thanks

Looking at this again quickly, it seems as if this won’t occur in version 1.3 even if WP Security Scan plugin is installed. This is because wp_cron is called before the init action (to which the version removal is hooked).

yes i had the above problem too, didnt have security scan plugin installed.

nice plugin, been looking for something like this.

just a heads up duck, the link on the plugin page to your website is dead and needs updating:

https://lionsgoroar.co.uk/wordpress/update-notifier/

Is it saying you’re running version “abc”? Are you running any plugins or custom functions which might change the version?

And thanks for the heads up.

yes its saying im running version abc. Running 2.9.2. Not running any custom installation too far from standard.

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Hope you can help. Very useful plugin.

thanks

Carl

Any help on this issue, I’ve installed Update Notifier and am having the same issue?

Whats the fix?

I am still unable to reproduce this (tried with the same setup as you carl_pilk), and also I am finding it hard to work out how it could happen. Update Notifier uses settings saved by WordPress itself to check if a new version is available, so I would have thought that you would also be seeing the yellow update nag in the administration area.

It may be helpful to check what is saved in this setting to get some more information on what is going on. All the info (for core updates) used by Update Notifier is taken from the ‘update_core’ transient. I have a test version update-notifier-menu.php which displays the admin menu with extra info and doesn’t send emails. Just place that in the main plugin directory (along with hello.php – that is Hello Dolly) and activate it (after deactivating the normal version of Update Notifier). The actual code for doing this (if you want to add this yourself instead) is: $current = get_transient('update_core'); print_r( $current );

In the test plugin the (possibly) useful output is under the heading “Contents of update_core transient” at the bottom of the Update Notifier admin menu page.

After doing that you could also try using the development version – link straight to the zip or go to Other Versions on the Update Notifier page – to see if there’s a difference (don’t see what though!)

Sorry I cannot be of more help atm, scratching my head in disbelief mostly ??

Did what you recommended, I’m running the latest version of wordpress and dont get the yellow update nag.

I had have WP-Security-Scanner previously installed but deactivated and removed it sometime ago. Dont know if this is having any effect.

Here are the details output:

Contents of update_core transient

stdClass Object
(
[updates] => Array
(
[0] => stdClass Object
(
[response] => latest
[url] => https://www.ads-software.com/download/
[package] => https://www.ads-software.com/wordpress-2.9.2.zip
[current] => 2.9.2
[locale] => en_US
)

)

[last_checked] => 1275560848
[version_checked] => 2.9.2
)

Well that looks as I would expect it to, after much searching I cannot see what is going wrong here…

Were you able to try the development version?

Will continue to see if I can find out what is happening.

i think the development version might have fixed it, ill let you know.

im still getting the same problem since running the latest version of update notifier.

how do i stop it?

It’s time to update the version of WordPress running at…from version abc to 2.9.2.

getting it across all my sites. any fix and Im happy to donate.

I’m afraid I cannot see how this is happening. At the moment my guess would be something to do with your hosting/specific setup. Would you be able to email me: updatenotifier at lionsgoroar.co.uk ?

hi duck,

im getting the same problem. i updated wp to 3.0 some days ago, yet got this message today:

It’s time to update the version of WordPress running from version 2.9.2 to 3.0.

weird as im not running WP-Security-Scanner (i did have it installed some time ago, but uninstalled it)

Hi,

I have the same problem:

It’s time to update the version of WordPress running at “URL” from version 2.9.2 to 3.0.1.

Please really fix this, disabling security with the above suggestion did not help and is not a solution. I never had version 2.9.2 installed, it was a 3.0.1

As this plugin is very useful if it works ??

Cheers, Devstorm

Please implement reading the real installed WordPress-version from the database, the contents of the $wp_version variable are changed by several security plugins, for good reason!!