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The official steps are way more complicated than what I did ??

Open Filezilla
Connect to host
Upload WordPress files overwriting over the top of my 4.4 files
Done

Go into Dashboard
Update Plugins and Themes as normal

Was very tough ??

You have to upload the 4.4.1 files over your installation with FTP. As the problem prevents updates it can’t update WordPress itself.

Just copy over all the files and it’ll update to 4.4.1 and I can confirm that once you have done that all updating works again. Done it on multiple sites on my server.

Oh yeah, it is part of Jetpack under the Manage section

Enabling Manage allows you to update your self-hosted WordPress sites along with any WordPress.com sites you have, all in one simple dashboard.

Plugins
Now you can update plugins, set plugins to automatically update, and activate or deactivate plugins on a per-site basis or in bulk from wordpress.com/plugins.

But if you go to updates it shows a message at the top

Reduce security risks with automated plugin updates.

James, do you know if enabling the “keep my plugins automatically updated” works with 4.4 or will that have the same issue?

Looks like that ticket says there is a fix in 4.4.1

Adding info from ShanghaiTimes here from the other thread: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/unable-to-update-pluginsthemes-post-44-update?replies=7#post-7782787 just to keep it in one place.

yes, same problem here.
I updated to 4.4 and bam. Now nothing updates.

WordPress 4.4
OSX 10.11.2
Perl-5.22
PHP 5.6.1

Not only will the update of plugins/themes fail – it then leaves the .maintenance file in the root, and you have to go delete it manually, or you find yourself locked out.

I also notice that it is now creating everything as my username, and not _www, as it used to.
ie. The .maintenance file is owned/group by me. Maybe it should be.

any sign of a fix here. It will be a disaster if an update of WordPress fails like this.

ShanghaiTimes, no fix yet, James just pointed to the location where the fix is in development.

I checked my hosting and didn’t see my update files going into another location like you see ShanghaiTimes but it could be trying but without permissions on my hosting to create directories at that level it fails.

YPanchal, there are two work arounds. Delete and re-upload the plugin/theme or use FTP to manually upload the new files into place.

My server is:

OS: CENTOS 6.7 x86_64
Apache Version: 2.4.16
PHP Version: 5.6.16
MySQL Version: 5.6.27

On another site running 4.3.1 on the same server, everything works normally.
As soon as it updates to 4.4 it has this same problem with updating plugins and themes.

So not a server/permissions thing unless WordPress changed the system requirements.

Thanks for the link mnewberry. Will be a pain if we have to delete plugins just to reinstall them going forward ??

Thanks for your comment Dap1. due to your comment I found out where and how to set up the plugin in no time.
Again, thank you.

Go to the directory wp-content/themes/p3/i/
In there is a file called logo.jpg

Simply overwrite it with your logo of choice.

In the P3 directory open header.php and look for the following

<div class="image">
		<img src="<?php echo esc_url(ot_get_option('custom-logo', get_template_directory_uri().'/i/logo.jpg')) ?>" alt="<?php bloginfo( 'name' ); ?>" height="120px" />
	</div>

Simply remove or comment out all those 3 lines and save. You’ll then have no header image and be left with the text.