Title: update wordpress failed
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# update wordpress failed

 *  Resolved [ilusiologi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ilusiologi/)
 * (@ilusiologi)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-wordpress-failed-1/)
 * I still get the message An automated WordPress update has failed to complete –
   please attempt the update again now. Is there something wrong?

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 *  [Tony Latimer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tonyrms/)
 * (@tonyrms)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-wordpress-failed-1/#post-6605130)
 * I’ve had this problem on several of my sites upgrading to 4.3.x. If removing 
   the .maintenance file didn’t work you may want to try checking folder and file
   permissions. All folders should be 755 and files 644. I had a mixture of too 
   strict of permissions and not restrictive enough on some files. WordPress won’t
   install if permissions are too weak. Once I changed all the permissions the WordPress
   upgrade button in the dashboard worked perfectly. You can go into cpanel and 
   use File Manager. This takes awhile and frankly doesn’t work perfectly with so
   many folders/files. I wasted a lot of time using it. What worked right off the
   bat for me on another site with same problem was to open an SSH and run these
   two find commands:
    To change all the directories to 755 (-rwxr-xr-x):
 * find /yourdirectory -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
 * To change all the files to 644 (-rw-r–r–):
 * find /yourdirectory -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

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 * Last reply from: [Tony Latimer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tonyrms/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-wordpress-failed-1/#post-6605130)
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