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I would consider this a good thing, as it means that Akismet is finding and deleting a lot of spam. When a record is deleted in MySQL, it is just marked as deleted, not physically removed from the database. To do that, you have to optimize the table. In PHPMyAdmin, click the check select box next to the table and select Optimise Table from the “With selected” drop down list.

With WordPress 3.8.3 they all update. I don’t know if it is the WordPress version or some change at my hosting company.

It turns out that the issue was host related. I have WordPress installations at 3 hosting companies. All of the sites at 2 companies auto update, and one not.

However, with WordPress 3.8.3 all the sites are updating.

Go figger.

Somehow XCache got re-enabled at my site and the problem came back. I’d really like some feedback on what the problem might be.

BTW, this installation uses the LightSpeed server. In the most recent incarnation, the error message changed a little:

PHP Fatal error: xc_fcntl_lock failed
errno:9 in …/wp-load.php on line 29 (different line number)

And I’m running a later version of WordPress (3.8.1). PHP is version 5.3.28.

FWIW, line 29 of wp-load.php is:

require_once( ABSPATH . 'wp-config.php' );

My hosting company has given up and sent me to “WordPress support”.

The geniuses at my host sent me this useless reply:

Hello Kevin.

The following string is required for automatic background updates in wp-config.php :
define( ‘WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE’, ‘minor’ );
It wasn’t present there. I added it to wp-config.php.

Please add following strings to wp-config.php for another web-sites and check the update status in several hours:

// Update core – development, major, and minor versions
// define( ‘WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE’, true );

// Update core – minor versions
define( ‘WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE’, ‘minor’ );

// Core update disabled
// define( ‘WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE’, false );

Thank you.

My sites are all:

define(‘WPLANG’, ”);

I opened a support ticket with my host.

I have several sites that say they are eligible for automatic update, but haven’t updated. It looks like sites on one host updated, and on the other not. No error emails. Background Update Tester says All Passed.

This is an English installation.

The code seems to indicate that the moderate_comments capability is INTENDED to allow emptying spam. Here’s the code from class-wp-comments-list-table.php:

if ( ( 'spam' == $comment_status || 'trash' == $comment_status ) && current_user_can( 'moderate_comments' ) ) {
			wp_nonce_field( 'bulk-destroy', '_destroy_nonce' );
			$title = ( 'spam' == $comment_status ) ? esc_attr__( 'Empty Spam' ) : esc_attr__( 'Empty Trash' );
			submit_button( $title, 'apply', 'delete_all', false );

It would also appear that in edit-comments.php, the code INTENDS for the user capability of edit_posts is required for Empty Comments; however giving a user that capability doesn’t make it work either.

It looks like the code was half modified to support the moderate_comments capability, but never finished.

I do not understand why we are even having a discussion about a plug-in.

You may have had 6 core updates, but the button is still broken. Capabilities were added in WordPress 2.0, and the moderate_comments capability doesn’t let someone moderate comments in WordPress 3.6. WordPress 3.6 displays a button that does nothing.

I posted this comment to get some help and to possibly report a bug. Perhaps somebody can move that discussion forward.

The plug-in author, on this page

https://shinephp.com/moderate_comments-wordpress-user-capability/

details issues with WordPress moderate_comments capability and why there’s nothing related to his plug-in that can deal with these problems.

It’s not related to the plug-in. It’s a button that doesn’t work. It’s a bug.

I created a new role using the User Role Editor plug-in.

I’m not sure I understand your question. I’m not talking about roles, but about capabilities.

Go to the Codex here:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Roles_and_Capabilities#moderate_comments

It says: that the moderate_comments capability “allows users to moderate comments from the Comments SubPanel (although a user needs the edit_posts Capability in order to access this)”

If you give users moderate_comments and edit_posts capability, they can see the Comment SubPanel in the Admin interface, and there is an “Empty Spam” button shown them, but it doesn’t do anything but refresh the screen.

Super. That worked. I wasn’t aware that the query was empty, but apparently it was.

Thanks so much.