WordPress will not update

  • Resolved extremeleadprogramcom

    (@extremeleadprogramcom)


    9 years, 7 months ago

    WordPress will not update automatically, or let me do it from the web interface at all.

    I previously was on 4.2.2 and had the same issue. I manually did an update via SSH/FTP hoping that would fix this issue going forward and it didn’t.

    Here’s a screenshot of the issue:
    https://i.steppic.com/e/0/0/1/e001bc646568e7cceadec368c3a560d0/0.png

    I got the “An automated wordpress update has failed to complete” error. Anytime I click on the “Please attempt the update again”, it just reloads the same page.

    I could not find any “.maintenance” file in the Word Press root directory.

    Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    WordPress will not update automatically

    then try MANUAL updating. Download a fresh copy of the WordPress .zip file to your computer, unzip it, and use that to copy up all files and folders EXCEPT the wp-config.php file and the /wp-content/ directory. You may need to delete the old copies of files & folder on your server before uploading the new ones.

    Read the Manual Update directions first.

    Thread Starter extremeleadprogramcom

    (@extremeleadprogramcom)

    Thank you for your reply. I did a manual update from 4.2.2 to 4.2.3. I don’t want to do that each time.

    However, I did actually SOLVE this issue. I’m not 100% sure which of these steps made it work, but here’s what I did:

    1) My site uses Cloudflare, so I cleared the cache on their control panel.

    2) I disabled the “W3 Total Cache”, “SEO Ultimate”, and “Wordfence Security” plugins.

    After doing those, I was able to update normally via the web interface. I wish I would have tried each one separately to know exactly which one worked, but at least this way if any one else runs in to this, there are options.

    Mods, you can mark this as Solved.

    Thanks again,

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