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What are your settings?

Mine just updated to 3.8.1 and broke my site.

Here are my settings:

Automatic Updates Enabled : No
Everything gets grayed out till

Disable VCS check : Checkmark
Update Emails enabled: Yes

Send emails for successfully updates: Check
Send emails for failed updates: Yes
Send emails for critically failed updates: Yes

@persiusx please start a separate support topic.

I have the same settings as persiusx (and had before the update too), plus at the end “Send Update Debug Emails?” that is unchecked.

Ditto what Fizzgigg wrote: same settings, same automatic update from 3.8 to 3.8.1 (but happily it didn’t break my site).

I just want to add THANK YOU for writing this plugin. Even if it’s not working at the moment. ?? WP ought to have included this functionality when they introduced automatic updates.

I agree with Bill Statler. Auto update was a good thought, but forcing everybody to auto update was in my opinion a strange and bad decision.
Thank for this plugin, and I am confident we can sort this out. And later maybe even translations? ??

Thanks for your patience, all. I found the issue, and it’s an easily-fixed bug with the Plugin. This line:

if ( ! $options['active'] ) {
    add_filter( 'auto_upgrader_disabled', '__return_true', 1 );
    return; // It's all disabled, no need to check the others.
}

The name of the filter is wrong. It should be auto_updater_disabled.

If I recall correctly, many of the filter names were changed during WordPress 3.7 beta-testing prior to release. I missed this one. I apologize.

I’ll push out a fix immediately.

Just pushed version 1.3.1, which addresses this issue. Thanks again for your patience!

@persiusx:

I also wanted to say: minor-version updates should never “break” your site. They’re only bugfix/security releases. If your site broke somehow after a minor-version update, you should start a support topic for that site-breakage, in the appropriate forum:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting#postform

Please be sure to provide all relevant details, including:

1. WordPress version before update
2. WordPress version after update
3. Active Theme
4. Active Plugins
5. Any error messages received during/after update
6. Exact nature of the site breakage, with proper debugging

Excellent work with the update, Chip. The difference between a trustworthy developer and an untrustworthy one is not so much the ability to avoid mistakes, but the ability does deal with them as they appear. ??

Thank you for that.

If you’re looking for a developer who always avoids mistakes, you’re looking in the wrong place. ?? But, I do my best to keep track of them, and correct them as soon as I can.