Title: WordPress 3.0 – Can’t automatically update plugins
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# WordPress 3.0 – Can’t automatically update plugins

 *  [David Artiss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dartiss/)
 * (@dartiss)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-30-cant-automatically-update-plugins/)
 * Pre WP 3.0 installation I had no problems with automatically updating plugins.
   However, now it doesn’t work.
 * If I use the update option under the Dashboard menu, then maintenance mode is
   activated but it hangs (with spinning icon) on updating the plugin.
 * If I go to plugins and, against the specific plugin, select the automatic upgrade
   option then it displays…
 * _Downloading update from [http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/si-captcha-for-wordpress.zip…](http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/si-captcha-for-wordpress.zip…)_
 * And stops at that. If I type the above URL into my address bar it downloads without
   an issue.
 * Does anybody have a solution for this?
 * David.

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 *  [nnparisi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nnparisi/)
 * (@nnparisi)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-30-cant-automatically-update-plugins/#post-1553982)
 * I see your post is listed as resolved. Did you manage to find a solution to this
   problem? I’m suffering the same problem on my blog and I’ve tried everything 
   I can find/think of.
 *  Thread Starter [David Artiss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dartiss/)
 * (@dartiss)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-30-cant-automatically-update-plugins/#post-1554075)
 * Sorry, shouldn’t have been that status – no, it’s not resolved.
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-30-cant-automatically-update-plugins/#post-1554076)
 * You may need to increase PHP’s memory allocation.
 * First, try installing the [Memory Bump plugin](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/memory-bump/).
 * If that doesn’t work, here are four ways to increase PHP’s memory allocation:
 *     ```
       1. If you have access to your PHP.ini file, change the line in PHP.ini
       If your line shows 32M try 64M:
       memory_limit = 64M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (64MB)
   
       2. If you don't have access to PHP.ini try adding this to an .htaccess file:
       php_value memory_limit 64M
   
       3. Try adding this line to your wp-config.php file:
       Increasing memory allocated to PHP
       define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');
   
       4. Talk to your host.
       ```
   
 *  [DS1224](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ds1224/)
 * (@ds1224)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-30-cant-automatically-update-plugins/#post-1554202)
 * I’m having the same problem.. The automatic update simply stalls and hangs with“
   Downloading update from [http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.0.zip.&#8221](http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.0.zip.&#8221);
 * Any ideas? I’ve deactivated all plug ins and am trying this now on a dummy test
   site and still no install. ?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-30-cant-automatically-update-plugins/#post-1554202)
 * Status: not resolved

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