Title: Cannot update plugins, core etc. inside WordPress
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Cannot update plugins, core etc. inside WordPress

 *  [Energ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/energ/)
 * (@energ)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-update-plugins-core-etc-inside-wordpress/)
 * Hello!
 * I am having problems with WordPress connecting to external servers. On dasboard
   rss shows “Connect() timed out”. I cannot update plugins or search for them.
 * I downloaded a plugin called Core Control via FTP and found out that my cURL 
   is installed on server but the test run fails with error message “Connect() timed
   out”.
 * Is this a server error for certain or can I do something about this? I am trying
   to move this new site to a new server for publishing, and on the old server everything
   worked as expected.

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 *  [Borko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/media-x/)
 * (@media-x)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-update-plugins-core-etc-inside-wordpress/#post-4211370)
 * Contact your host. They will surely resolve this quickly.
 *  Thread Starter [Energ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/energ/)
 * (@energ)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-update-plugins-core-etc-inside-wordpress/#post-4211453)
 * I did that and found out that they don’t support cURL for security reasons. Now,
   they try to find out a different solution but I doubt they succeed.
 * If I find a solution that works I let you know…

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 * Last reply from: [Energ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/energ/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-update-plugins-core-etc-inside-wordpress/#post-4211453)
 * Status: not resolved

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