Why Automatic Updates for Some Sites but Not Others?

  • I recently went through an exercise of updating all 13 of my WordPress sites to 4.3.1, via the update link in the interface. I noticed that two or three of them did not ask for my FTP credentials, just went ahead and did the update. These, as it turned out, are the ones which say, on the Updates page: “You have the latest version of WordPress. Future security updates will be applied automatically.” The other sites simply say “You have the latest version of WordPress.”

    I’m not sure why they would be different. There appears to be no UI-based setting for toggling background updates. I may want them all to have this enabled, or maybe none, still thinking about that.

    It seems there are things I can add to the config file to turn these things off or on, but the config files currently in use do not have these switches or filters in there, for either the sites where it’s ON or the sites where it’s OFF.

    I’m really curious why they don’t all have automatic updates in place, now they’ve all been updated to 4.3.1 via the Updates page in the UI.

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  • Bill

    (@chubbycrow)

    Automatic background updates are enabled by default since WP 3.7. You can learn about and adjust this with the info provided on this page:
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Configuring_Automatic_Background_Updates

    Updates may be problematic if WP cannot write to certain files or directories (permissions issues), is running as the wrong user (server issue), and/or is unable to fallback to using ftp (if ftp credentials have not been provided).

    Search the support forums for ‘asking for ftp credentials’ to see how others have solved that issue.

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