Title: 2.7 Automatic Plugin Upgrades
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# 2.7 Automatic Plugin Upgrades

 *  [shatland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shatland/)
 * (@shatland)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/27-automatic-plugin-upgrades/)
 * Is there ANYBODY out there that can use the automatic plugin upgrade/install 
   in WordPress 2.7?
 * I always get a permission issue about something in wp-settings (line 465), which
   then permeates into several other ‘include’ warnings/errors. I have to delete
   the plugin, then go back to the Plugins Screen in Administration where it says
   the plugin has been deactivated because of an error. I then delete the folder
   out of wp-content/plugins, and install it MANUALLY and it usually clears all 
   of the errors.
 * There is a CRITICAL issue with this functionality and it is utter crap that nobody
   seems to have responded with a solution or acknowledgment of the issue. I’m surely
   not going to put everything at 777, as that seems to have worked for some.
 * Thoughts?

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 *  [Mark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpsec/)
 * (@wpsec)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/27-automatic-plugin-upgrades/#post-973501)
 * The solution – really – is to simply not use the automatic upgrade feature. Handle
   upgrades manually. And you’re right, putting file permissions at 777 is begging
   for trouble…
 *  Thread Starter [shatland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shatland/)
 * (@shatland)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/27-automatic-plugin-upgrades/#post-973505)
 * Agreed…but it makes me mad 🙂 It just seems easier to do it in those screens 
   and I don’t understand why they were shipped out when it is clear they don’t 
   work.
 * Oh Well, maybe next release. For now, I’ll keep to the manual route.
 *  [Mark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpsec/)
 * (@wpsec)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/27-automatic-plugin-upgrades/#post-973508)
 * Just do what I do: Pretend the feature was never added 🙂 It was bound to cause
   a lot of grief because whoever wrote that part of the WordPress code made a megaton
   of assumptions – and from what I’ve been told there won’t be much of any fix 
   progress put into automatic upgrades until WP 2.9! Unless of course someone discovers
   a security hole in it. They’ll fix that pronto.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Mark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpsec/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/27-automatic-plugin-upgrades/#post-973508)
 * Status: not resolved

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