Title: Update loop WordPress 5.1
Last modified: February 22, 2019

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# Update loop WordPress 5.1

 *  [Johan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beingremixed/)
 * (@beingremixed)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-loop-wordpress-5-1/)
 * Hello.
    Updated to WP 5.1 today and the database won’t update. I click the “Update
   WP database” button, and the page turns white after a few seconds and the page
   goes down. After a while it gets up again and as soon as I click to make a new
   post or the panel I get asked to update the database again, and it won’t happen,
   just the same loop. Felt it would update in the background even if the page turns
   white. Can’t find a fix around this. (Cleared cache, deactivated the plugins 
   etc) Suggestions? Thank you.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fupdate-loop-wordpress-5-1%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Kartik Shukla](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kartiks16/)
 * (@kartiks16)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-loop-wordpress-5-1/#post-11234747)
 * Hello
 * If you install the [Health Check plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/health-check/),
   it has a Site Status overview which will give you a general understanding of 
   potential problems that may prevent updates.
 * OR manually update the db_version in phpMyAdmin to the version number that you
   find in the version.php in wp-includes directory:
 * $wp_db_version = 44719;
 *  Thread Starter [Johan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beingremixed/)
 * (@beingremixed)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-loop-wordpress-5-1/#post-11234888)
 * Hi.
    Thank you for this. I can see that the version is correct and the the update
   looks like it’s been done. But the database still won’t do the update. Can’t 
   activate or run the Health Check as I can’t get into the panel. (Have uploaded
   it though FTP though, but cant access or run it).
 *  [Kartik Shukla](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kartiks16/)
 * (@kartiks16)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-loop-wordpress-5-1/#post-11234973)
 * Did you try to manually update the Database version?
 *  Thread Starter [Johan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beingremixed/)
 * (@beingremixed)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-loop-wordpress-5-1/#post-11235001)
 * Yes. No luck there.
    Will try to downgrade to 5.0.3 again.
 *  Thread Starter [Johan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beingremixed/)
 * (@beingremixed)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-loop-wordpress-5-1/#post-11235057)
 * Got it back to 5.0.3 and now it works properly.
    So I guess I wait until 5.1.1
   is out until I dare upgrade again.
 *  [Kartik Shukla](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kartiks16/)
 * (@kartiks16)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-loop-wordpress-5-1/#post-11235127)
 * Hello beingremixed
 * I am sure WordPress won’t release version which has such issue. There might be
   some minor issue which needs to be taken care of. In case I would suggest having
   one dev or staging env with you where you can play with.
 *  [jpro6363](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpro6363/)
 * (@jpro6363)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-loop-wordpress-5-1/#post-11401792)
 * everytime I update to 5.1.1 the whole site goes down. I have to restore from 
   snapshot to bring the site back up. should I just leave the site on 4.9.10?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 7 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [jpro6363](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpro6363/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-loop-wordpress-5-1/#post-11401792)
 * Status: not resolved

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