Have you tried:
– deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
– switching to the Twenty Eleven theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.
– re-uploading the wp-admin and wp-includes folders from a fresh download of WordPress.
I have not, but I just manually updated one plugin and that was able to update successfully.
The problem with deactivating all plugins is that I don’t want to lose some functionality, widgets, etc for my site and have to start over again. I always fear this when disabling plugins.
If I were to upload the wp-admin and wp-includes folders, would that mess up everything I have on my site and I would have to start over?
would that mess up everything I have on my site and I would have to start over
No. Most plugins should also retain their settings when deactivated.
Ok, thanks. Guess I can give that a shot!
On a side note, if it will manually update fine, I’m guessing the problem lies somewhere with the “batch updater”..whatever that is called. Bit it did reference the update-core.php file. Could that have changed somehow?
I’m guessing the problem lies somewhere with the “batch updater”..whatever that is called
I think there are 3 possibilities:
1. A bad plugin or something in your theme is interfering with the 1-click-update
2. Your host is doing something funky on the server.
3. You’ve literally “lost” a critical core file needed for the 1-click-update
The steps I gave above are designed to try and rule at least 2 of these possibilities out.
Thanks a ton. I will give it a shot and see what I can come up with!
I think there is something more… I tried to delete all my inactive plugins, and when it gets to the point where you click yes, and delete all files, it give a page not found. What is missing, what could have been changed?
I did all the things you mentioned and no positive result.
Gave that a shot too and no luck.
Then it sounds like a server issue.
Ok, thanks! Any idea on what it may be? I asked the host already and they can’t see anything. I run another domain with WordPress from the same account with the host and that doesn’t have the issue.
Are both sites on the same physical server?
Yes, same account, same server. The other site with no issues is in a subdirectory of my main directory.
Try resetting your custom permalinks back to the default setting via Settings -> Permalinks & deleting (or renaming) the .htaccess file in your site’s root WordPress folder.
I tried renaming the .htaccess first and it looks like it is working fine now. One strange thing that happens (which has happened before all this took place) is that when I select all, it will say updates complete or whatever, without showing the yellow areas where it actually updates…and after it says updates complete, it still shows they are available for updates.
This isn’t that big of a deal because I’m sure it is a single plugin hanging that up because when I do small batches, everything functions fine.
So, since it appears to be a .htaccess file thing, how can I find the bad part of that file?
