Title: Plugin and theme updates not working
Last modified: September 4, 2018

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# Plugin and theme updates not working

 *  Resolved [Roberto Jobet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robertojobet/)
 * (@robertojobet)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-and-theme-updates-not-working/)
 * Hi,
    Installed EAM yesterday evening in a WP test site. There were already 8 
   plugins with a pending update. Tried to click on “Force Updates” button (“Advanced”
   tab) but nothing happens, plugins and theme are not updated…
 * Followed instructions on your Github wiki page (“3.3 Troubleshooting Automatic
   Updates”).
    Installed WP Control plugin to check cron processes… I noticed that
   there are 2 processes for both plugins (“wp_update_plugins()”) and theme (“wp_update_themes()”).
   Both are scheduled to run twice a day (next run at 8:46 PM).
 * Searching in your WP forum I noticed that hosting providers could be an issue(
   our provider is Namecheap) and also security plugins (I’m using iThemes Security
   plugin)…
 * is there any log file I can check?
 * Any clues?
 * Thanks for any help!
 * Best regards,
    Roberto

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Venkat Raj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webulous/)
 * (@webulous)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-and-theme-updates-not-working/#post-10654985)
 * Hi [@robertojobet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robertojobet/),
 * By default, EUM won’t update anything automatically. Did you turn on automatic
   updates?
    Dashboard => Update Options => General tab => Automatic Updates => 
   On (set to on instead of default)
 * `wp_update_plugins, wp_update_themes and wp_version_check` are all WP default
   cron jobs which are scheduled to run twice daily and EUM hook into this to perform
   automatic updating.
 *  Thread Starter [Roberto Jobet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robertojobet/)
 * (@robertojobet)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-and-theme-updates-not-working/#post-10655628)
 * Hi Venkat,
    Oh my god, I completely missed the “Automatic Updates” setting…. 
   Now clicking on “Force Updates” button, updates are applied!!
 * In the General tab, you should write instead of “Automatic Updates” a title like“
   Automatic Updates” (WordPress, Translations, Plugins & Themes)”.
 * Moreover you should specify the meaning for each setting:
    Default (Normal WP
   behavior. Only WP updates) On (Automatic updates for all components) Off (Manual
   updates) Custom (Select setting for each component)
 * Thanks for this excellent plugin!!
 * Best regards
 *  Plugin Contributor [Ronald Huereca](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ronalfy/)
 * (@ronalfy)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-and-theme-updates-not-working/#post-10655716)
 * [@robertojobet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robertojobet/),
 * Glad you got this resolved and we’ll take your suggestions and discuss them.
 * If you don’t mind, can you please rate the plugin?

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## Tags

 * [cron](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cron/)
 * [iThemes Security](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/ithemes-security/)
 * [namecheap](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/namecheap/)
 * [wp-control](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp-control/)

 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Ronald Huereca](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ronalfy/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-and-theme-updates-not-working/#post-10655716)
 * Status: resolved