Title: dashboard loads old wordpress dev feed
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# dashboard loads old wordpress dev feed

 *  [mazedlx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mazedlx/)
 * (@mazedlx)
 * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-loads-old-wordpress-dev-feed/)
 * i’m using wordpress since 2.0 and since the upgrade to 2.3.3 my dashboard shows
   me old wordpress development blog posts. for today it should show me something
   like
 * WordPress 2.3.3 — 29 days ago
 * but instead i get
 * WordPress 2.2.2 and 2.0.11 — 213 days ago
 * also, the plugin section does not feature “There is a new version of – pluginname–
   available”
 * i made several clean installs, but that won’t help either. any suggestions? would
   appreciate your help!

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 *  [fayries](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fayries/)
 * (@fayries)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-loads-old-wordpress-dev-feed/#post-706940)
 * I had this problem with WordPress 2.3.3 and I’m still facing it with 2.5.
 * I’ve traced it to the fact that WordPress uses the PHP fsockopen() function to
   access some resources available under the wordpress.org domain (such as the development
   blog feed, or the current version of installed plugins). I have WordPress installed
   on two of my web host’s servers. One of them is working perfectly fine. The other
   errors on fsockopen() calls sent to the wordpress.org domain. On the same server,
   fsockopen() works fine with other domains. This is confirmed when I change the
   feed URL of the WordPress Developement Blog widget to some other feed that is
   not hosted on wordpress.org.
 * Is it possible that wordpress.org could blacklist some of my web host’s servers?
   Of course, when i asked my web host if they were blacklisting wordpress.org, 
   they told me that “No no no! It must be WordPress blacklisting us!”
 * Anyway, any WordPress function using fsockopen() fails for me with a “Connection
   refused” or “Connection timed out” error.
 * (By the way, for the original poster, old posts are displayed in the dashboard
   when WordPress resorts to displaying the data it has in cache.)
 *  [rzara](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rzara/)
 * (@rzara)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-loads-old-wordpress-dev-feed/#post-706948)
 * I see the same problem since the beginning of the year. My host is ovh.com
 * I reported the issue on wordpress.org via “report a Site Bug” with no respsonse
   thus far.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
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 * Last reply from: [rzara](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rzara/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-loads-old-wordpress-dev-feed/#post-706948)
 * Status: not resolved

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