Title: Does plugin auto update really work?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Does plugin auto update really work?

 *  [leemon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leemon/)
 * (@leemon)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-plugin-auto-update-really-work/)
 * Hi,
 * I’ve enabled the “Permit Automatic Plugin Updates?” setting and more than 12 
   hours have passed since I received the manual upgrade notices for some of the
   installed plugins in my site but they haven’t been auto updated.
 * Any ideas?
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/update-control/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/update-control/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Chip Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chipbennett/)
 * (@chipbennett)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-plugin-auto-update-really-work/#post-4303700)
 * Do core automatic updates work for you?
 * If so: just give it more time. It will perform the update eventually.
 *  Thread Starter [leemon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leemon/)
 * (@leemon)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-plugin-auto-update-really-work/#post-4303793)
 * Yes, core automatic updates do work.
 * According to the Background Update Tester:
 * PASS: Your WordPress install can communicate with WordPress.org securely.
    PASS:
   No version control systems were detected. PASS: Your installation of WordPress
   doesn’t require FTP credentials to perform updates. PASS: All of your WordPress
   files are writable.
 * The plugins have not auto updated yet.
 *  Plugin Author [Chip Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chipbennett/)
 * (@chipbennett)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-plugin-auto-update-really-work/#post-4303795)
 * I’ve watched several automatic Plugin updates fire on several hosts.
 * Are you sure you have Plugin Updates enabled?
 *  Thread Starter [leemon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leemon/)
 * (@leemon)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-plugin-auto-update-really-work/#post-4303824)
 * Yes, the “Permit Automatic Plugin Updates?” checkbox is checked.
 * Still no upgrade. Maybe tha fact that I’m using a non-english version of WordPress
   has to do with it.
 *  Thread Starter [leemon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leemon/)
 * (@leemon)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-plugin-auto-update-really-work/#post-4303840)
 * This is the value of the “update_control_options” option in the DB:
 * `
    a:12:{s:6:"active";s:3:"yes";s:4:"core";s:5:"minor";s:6:"plugin";b:1;s:5:"
   theme";b:1;s:11:"translation";b:1;s:14:"toggleadvanced";s:4:"hide";s:8:"vcscheck";
   b:1;s:11:"emailactive";s:3:"yes";s:12:"successemail";b:1;s:12:"failureemail";
   b:1;s:13:"criticalemail";b:1;s:10:"debugemail";b:0;}
 *  Plugin Author [Chip Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chipbennett/)
 * (@chipbennett)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-plugin-auto-update-really-work/#post-4303877)
 * By chance: are you running in a multisite network environment?

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 * 6 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Chip Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chipbennett/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-plugin-auto-update-really-work/#post-4303877)
 * Status: not resolved