Title: Updating with selective plugins function
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Updating with selective plugins function

 *  [Bike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bike/)
 * (@bike)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updating-with-selective-plugins-function/)
 * Hi Jeff,
 * I use your great plugin, with selective plugin loading enabled. When updating
   automatically (through WP menu) your plugin created a white-out: both front-end
   and back-end were gone. O
    nly after manually moving /wp-content/plugins/plugin-
   organizer/lib/PluginOrganizerMU.class.php to Mu-plugins, I got my site back.
 * Is there a way that an automatic update does not block the entire site, but just
   removes the selective plugin part until the file is manually updated as well?
 * Cheers,
    Bike
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-organizer/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-organizer/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Sterup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foomagoo/)
 * (@foomagoo)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updating-with-selective-plugins-function/#post-5128548)
 * People randomly experience that. Usually when they update from a very old version.
   If you got a white screen there was a 500 internal server error. Can you send
   me what errors were generated?
 *  Thread Starter [Bike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bike/)
 * (@bike)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updating-with-selective-plugins-function/#post-5128550)
 * I went from 5.2 to 5.3, so that should be a normal change.
 * Sorry, it has been a few days ago, can’t retrieve a 500 error for this.
 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Sterup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foomagoo/)
 * (@foomagoo)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updating-with-selective-plugins-function/#post-5128552)
 * I will look into disabling the selective plugin loading during update. I’m guessing
   it is caused because the MU plugin gets loaded and then the options get changed
   but the code can’t be reloaded with the new version on that page load. Then everything
   gets locked up. There should be something I can hook into. I’ll leave this open
   for now and let you know when I have more info.
 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Sterup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foomagoo/)
 * (@foomagoo)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updating-with-selective-plugins-function/#post-5128560)
 * So now I’m thinking that it is caused by the function that checks whether the
   right version is running or not when the page loads. The MU plugin doesn’t execute
   on the plugins or update pages. If you aren’t running the right version the activate
   function is called to update your options and get everything in place. I’m wondering
   if this is called on the update page which would cause it to activate multiple
   times. I’m going to put a check in that function so it won’t be activated again
   during an update. This will go out with the next release. If I don’t get any 
   more reports of bugs this week I’ll try to get it out by the weekend.

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 * Last reply from: [Jeff Sterup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foomagoo/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updating-with-selective-plugins-function/#post-5128560)
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