Dashboard > Updates not updating plugins

  • dnxdnx

    (@dnxdnx)


    8 years, 12 months ago

    Two sites I manage have a problem where the Dashboard > Updates section was not updating plugins.

    By testing, I’ve found that I can update plugins by going to Plugins > installed plugins > updates and update from there.

    Neither reinstalling WP 4.8 nor changing to Theme Twenty Sixteen helped to solve this.

    All plugins are now updated, so will check if dashboard > updates works when there is a new update.

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  • wbcomdesigns

    (@wbcomdesigns)

    8 years, 12 months ago

    Hello @dnxdnx

    For current scenario, if manual update is not working you can auto update themes and plugins by adding this code snippet in functions.php

    add_filter( 'auto_update_plugin', '__return_true' );
add_filter( 'auto_update_theme', '__return_true' );

    Hope this will help.

    Thanks.

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 12 months ago by wbcomdesigns.
    Thread Starter dnxdnx

    (@dnxdnx)

    8 years, 12 months ago

    Thanks that’s good to know, however, not sure I want to go with automatic update of plugins. Would like to know why plugins will update from one part of the site, but not another. Odd behaviour.

    Thread Starter dnxdnx

    (@dnxdnx)

    8 years, 12 months ago

    Just tried to update two plugins via wp-admin/update-core.php and I just get the update animation going round, but nothing happens.

    Thread Starter dnxdnx

    (@dnxdnx)

    8 years, 11 months ago

    None of my sites (approx 10) will update via the update-core.php page.

    Thread Starter dnxdnx

    (@dnxdnx)

    8 years, 10 months ago

    All of my sites are affected since updating to WordPress 4.8 – none of them will update plugins from the Dashboard > Updates page. The updating animation just keeps going round, but the plugin never updates.

    I have tried reinstalling WordPress 4.8 en_GB, it installs, however, still cannot update plugins from the Dashboard > Updates page.

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 10 months ago by dnxdnx. Reason: added additional info
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