Title: Plugin Upgrade Automatically Not working
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Plugin Upgrade Automatically Not working

 *  [deepeshmd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deepeshmd/)
 * (@deepeshmd)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-upgrade-automatically-not-working/)
 * All,
 * When I click the Plugin’s “Upgrade Automatically” link, it just stays at Downloading
   Update from [http://xxxxxxxxxxx](http://xxxxxxxxxxx). It does not go any further.
 * My webserver did not allow uploads, until I changed the wp-config.php file to
   the following after which it started upgrading.
    /*ADDED NEW SECTION FOR FIXING
   AUTOMATIC UPGRADE*/ if(is_admin()) { add_filter(‘filesystem_method’, create_function(‘
   $a’, ‘return “direct”;’ )); define( ‘FS_CHMOD_DIR’, 0751 ); }
 * Recently it stopped. I’d tried modifying the .htaccess file, but restored it 
   back. Does that have to do anything with the upgrade?

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 *  Thread Starter [deepeshmd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deepeshmd/)
 * (@deepeshmd)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-upgrade-automatically-not-working/#post-1198592)
 * I missed to mention – my other wordpress installations on the same server works
   fine with the automatic upgrades of plugins. And for those ones, i’ve done the
   same mods.
 *  Thread Starter [deepeshmd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deepeshmd/)
 * (@deepeshmd)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-upgrade-automatically-not-working/#post-1198897)
 * someone please help…!
 *  [8bitaddict](https://wordpress.org/support/users/8bitaddict/)
 * (@8bitaddict)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-upgrade-automatically-not-working/#post-1199023)
 * Did you ever figure out the issue? I’m having this problem now. Thanks.

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## Tags

 * [automatic](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/automatic/)
 * [upgrade](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upgrade/)
 * [upgrade plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upgrade-plugin/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [8bitaddict](https://wordpress.org/support/users/8bitaddict/)
 * Last activity: [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-upgrade-automatically-not-working/#post-1199023)
 * Status: not resolved

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