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Cancel this. Now working. For some reason there was an incorrect App ID or secret code in the settings

Thanks Done that
was hoping that the plugin author will add functionality in the plugin to do it more easily

El3na3 try the fix in my last post

NO it is impossible to update cent os 5 to 6 or 7 safely
Cent OS themselves say the only way is to provision a new server & transfer accounts over.

Some hosts have updated servers but they introduced unfortunate effects and bugs https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/MigrationGuide/MigratingFiveToSix

James, I am with Hostgator and have a dedicated server. Their policy along with the majority of other hosting companies is: If I chose to have the OS updated, the only safe way to do it is cancel the existing server & provision a new one and transfer all accounts over.
That costs me money with the cost of an additional server for 1 month
If I wait till CentOS 5 is EOL, they will upgrade me free of charge,

You cannot update 0.98 on a centos 5 cpanel server.
the only way is to update centos, which means moving to a new server and that costs a lot of money and downtime and other associated problems.

I know that will need to be done when Cent OS 5 is EOL in 2017, but until then or I find some spare money for hosting. I am stuck and so are millions of other users with this problem.

The 4.4.1 update caused the problem on my server and on many others that I have heard about
The first time I ever had this problem was with 4.4. I replaced the certificate bundle and everything worked
4.4.1 update and I needed to manually replace the bundle again on all sites on the server. I have been informed of about 100 similar occurrences so 4.4.1 has not fixed the problem, at least not on Cpanel CentOS5 using OpenSSL 0.98

This explains why the WordPress ca bundle doesn’t work on many servers
It isn’t fully WordPress fault, but they are partly responsible in that they are jumping the gun in removing the old certs that are still valid until 2017, replacing them with new ones and breaking the trust chain
https://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wordpress-4-4-update-breaks-itself-with-ssl-certificate-problem-unable-to-get-local-issuer-certificate/

From what I can find out this seems to be a particular problem on CentOS 5 servers using cpanel. It is almost certainly related to the Openssl version that Cpanel use which is stuck on 0.98.x rather than the newer 1.x.x versions that come with newer server OS versions. However CentOS 5 is still supported and in very common use in hosting companies and dedicated servers.

There is a discussion about this on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29943932/curl-php-ssl-unable-to-verify-server-side-but-not-always which explains the full technical reasons for this and why the millions of users that have older but still supported server OS. OpenSSl cannot be updated on these servers

Many users cannot update OpenSSL to a newer version without changing servers that use a different newer OS with all the associated downtime and problems that causes.

It is not WordPress having an old bundle, it is WordPress using a new certificate bundle that has removed old rsa 1024 root or intermediate certificates from the chain. Older ( still in use) versions of OpenSSl cannot find or use the new certificates.
see https://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wordpress-4-4-update-breaks-itself-with-ssl-certificate-problem-unable-to-get-local-issuer-certificate/

see https://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wordpress-4-4-update-breaks-itself-with-ssl-certificate-problem-unable-to-get-local-issuer-certificate/

see if this solves it
https://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wordpress-4-4-update-breaks-itself-with-ssl-certificate-problem-unable-to-get-local-issuer-certificate/

https://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wordpress-4-4-update-breaks-itself-with-ssl-certificate-problem-unable-to-get-local-issuer-certificate/

stats plugin inside jetpack

it does save but it is complicated
what you have to do is drag anything to the top box and it saves there , so if you want to re-order you need to move from left column to right column( or middle column) and then drag the item from bottom to top to get the one you want on top

the whole admin layout is a mess and colours are wrong, fonts are wrong. font weights are wrong and no way to chose numbers of columns to suit yourself.

None of the colour schemes suit me. I cannot see light type on a dark background
the fonts are too large.
if you use a theme with lots of widgets, then the widget panel in 3.8 is total mess with difficulty in moving, dragging and dropping widgets etc
all in all the admin panel should have an option to allow users to revert to 3.7.x style which works perfectly for me & others