Title: Technical Doubt
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Technical Doubt

 *  Resolved [sumbuzz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sumbuzz/)
 * (@sumbuzz)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technical-doubt/)
 * Do you require the **exec() / exec.php or url_fopen functions**, as both of those
   have been disabled on Synthesis hosting for security reasons.
 * We want to install and activate this plugin for our website.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-safe-updates/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-safe-updates/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Viljami Kuosmanen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zuige/)
 * (@zuige)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technical-doubt/#post-7591485)
 * shell_exec, exec, fopen, eval, etc. – none of those nasty php functions aren’t
   used. 🙂
 * You can view the entire source code of WP Safe Updates here:
    [https://github.com/anttiviljami/wp-safe-updates/](https://github.com/anttiviljami/wp-safe-updates/)
 * Thanks for asking!

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technical-doubt/#post-7591485)
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