Title: Plugin updates are not working
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Plugin updates are not working

 *  [BartTheMan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barttheman/)
 * (@barttheman)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-updates-are-not-working/)
 * Hi,
 * After waiting for 4 days, my plugins are not updated by using the plugin. I checked
   with Background Update Tester : ok ! Setup [update control](http://wordpress.org/plugins/update-control/).
   Should be ok.
    What the hell am I mssing to make this work ?
 * Bart
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/automatic-updater/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/automatic-updater/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Gary Pendergast](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pento/)
 * (@pento)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-updates-are-not-working/#post-4487449)
 * In Settings -> Advanced Automatic Updates, do you have “update plugins automatically”
   enabled? When you initially install AAU, this defaults to disabled.
 *  Thread Starter [BartTheMan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barttheman/)
 * (@barttheman)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-updates-are-not-working/#post-4487497)
 * Sure !
 *  [mikal42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikal42/)
 * (@mikal42)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-updates-are-not-working/#post-4487606)
 * Have installed this on several sites recently, all of the relevant boxes ticked
   and it doesn’t work on any of them! A major disappointment!
 *  Thread Starter [BartTheMan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barttheman/)
 * (@barttheman)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-updates-are-not-working/#post-4487607)
 * Mee too. Installed on 4 sites and not 1 update executed !
 *  [johnzenausa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnzenausa/)
 * (@johnzenausa)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-updates-are-not-working/#post-4487614)
 * Worked perfectly until the WordPress 3.8 upgrade then stopped working altogether.
 *  [DowntownRob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/downtownrob/)
 * (@downtownrob)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-updates-are-not-working/#post-4487682)
 * I’m having the same issue on a multisite installation, plugin updates are not
   working. I now have 17 plugins needing updates over a few months. Not sure what
   the problem is. I don’t have Better WP Security active, I’ve checked other threads
   and can’t find anything else, and checked the background updater:
 * 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.
 * This site is able to apply these updates automatically. Cool!
 * Help?
 *  [davidkonicek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidkonicek/)
 * (@davidkonicek)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-updates-are-not-working/#post-4487695)
 * It’s not working for me either. First, I tried auto updates without using this
   plugin. I modified my wp-config file to enable automatic updates by adding the
   following line:
 * `add_filter( 'auto_update_plugin', '__return_true' );`
 * That had no effect. So I tried this plugin, and it doesn’t work either. Could
   it be that my folder permissions aren’t what they should be?
 *  [davidkonicek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidkonicek/)
 * (@davidkonicek)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-updates-are-not-working/#post-4487696)
 * Disregard my last comment. The filter I tried to use in wp-config.php is supposed
   to be used in a plugin, not wp-config. Also, I’m assuming it takes 12 hours to
   check for updates, so I’ll wait and see.
 *  [DowntownRob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/downtownrob/)
 * (@downtownrob)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-updates-are-not-working/#post-4487697)
 * I had some progress, I manually updated all the plugins, and then after, this
   plugin is updating them ok now. Perhaps there was something blocking or creating
   an error previously. It’s working ok again now.
 *  [Iamhere](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iamhere/)
 * (@iamhere)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-updates-are-not-working/#post-4487706)
 * Nope – doesn’t work in 3.9.1

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