Title: Automatic Update Downloading Wrong Plugins
Last modified: August 19, 2016

---

# Automatic Update Downloading Wrong Plugins

 *  [Cynthia Armistead](https://wordpress.org/support/users/technomom/)
 * (@technomom)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-update-downloading-wrong-plugins/)
 * Last night and today, I’ve had several “update plugin” messages that are bogus,
   because the plugins haven’t been updated at all. When I try to use the “update
   automatically” option, the wrong plugin is downloaded and installed to replace
   the one I thought needed to be updated.
 * One of the plugins I always use, [No Duplicate Comments](http://www.coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/),
   is pretty old, but it does what it’s supposed to do. I didn’t think too much 
   of it when I saw the upgrade message. But when I got back to the list of plugins,
   NDC was gone, and I had a completely unfamiliar plugin, [Hide/Cut Post Text](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/hide-or-cut-post-text/)
   installed. The most recent version of that plugin is dated 8 April 2005.
 * Another update installed [WP-Banner](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-banner/),
   a plugin I’m aware of but not one that I use. It was updated 11 April 2008. I
   haven’t yet figured out what it replaced, which is annoying.
 * I still have update messages for [Democracy](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/democracy/)(
   just the widget, not the actual plugin, which is even odder), last updated 23
   March 2007, and the [Cystats](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cystats/) uninstaller.
   The Cystats “upgrade” took me backwards, from the 0.9.1 version that I was using
   to the 0.9.0 version that was released 10 December 2007.
 * Please note that some of the automatic upgrade notices are correct, and do download
   and install the correct files. Broken Link Checker is one that I recall being
   correct, but I can’t recall the others.

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-update-downloading-wrong-plugins/#post-739700)
 * Please send this information to here:
    [http://wordpress.org/report-bugs/](http://wordpress.org/report-bugs/)
 * This will get the information to the correct people.
 *  Thread Starter [Cynthia Armistead](https://wordpress.org/support/users/technomom/)
 * (@technomom)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-update-downloading-wrong-plugins/#post-739751)
 * Done, thanks!

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

The topic ‘Automatic Update Downloading Wrong Plugins’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

 * [automatic update](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/automatic-update/)

 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Cynthia Armistead](https://wordpress.org/support/users/technomom/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-update-downloading-wrong-plugins/#post-739751)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics