Who Updated My Site From WordPress 3.8.2 to 3.8.3

  • Resolved 040310b

    (@040310b)


    10 years ago

    I always manually update my wordpress blogs. This past week I, finally, decided to update a blog of mine from 3.1.3 to 3.8.2. Like always, I downloaded the 3.8.2 zipfile and used that, via FTP, to update. To my recollection, my dashboard was showing version 3.8.2 running. In fact, ismyblogworking.com, previously, showed 3.8.2 also; after I realized my wordpress version was visible there, however, I reactivated a plugin which “hides” my wordpress version.

    I know I did not mistakenly choose 3.8.3, because it had not been released when I updated, and the zip file I used to update, definitely, says 3.8.2.

    The blog is presently alerting me to update to wordpress 3.9, which I have no plans to do, anytime soon; so, that would seem to indicate it is not, somehow, “auto-updating” against my wishes. However, I really do not know; so, since I was here to post another question, I figured I would ask about this.

    Is “wordpress” just “mis-detecting” my 3.8.2 installation as 3.8.3?

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  • bemdesign

    (@bemdesign)

    10 years ago

    This functionality has been included inside WordPress since 3.7. Auto-updates only happen for minor security updates and not for large core updates (like 3.9). For the vast majority of websites they work quite well and help keep websites up to date with the latest security patches.

    Auto-updates do not work with sites using source control, sites that are using a managed host like WP-Engine, or if it detects that it can’t completed the update in that particular instance. So one way to prevent auto-updates would be to use source control.

    Otherwise, please read http://codex.wordpress.org/Configuring_Automatic_Background_Updates for ways to manage the auto-update feature.

    Thread Starter 040310b

    (@040310b)

    10 years ago

    Thanks for replying.

    Based on the information you linked to, apparently, I can turn all auto-updates off; I will do so, right now, and add that to the list of things I do on new wordpress installs. Personally, one thing I detest, is auto-updates. I even turned “auto-updates” off for my cellphone, to the extent that is possible.

    I will turn “auto-updates” off on my other blogs running 3.7.x, or greater, as well

    Is there a plugin, yet, that makes it possible to turn off these “auto-updates” from the wordpress dashboard.

    Thread Starter 040310b

    (@040310b)

    10 years ago

    Guess what. Earlier this week, a day or two after I successfully updated to 3.8.2, the LiteSpeed server, where my site is, started “throwing” 404 pages.

    I was, entirely, surprised by this, because I, typically, make “notes” for myself; however, none of my “notes”, or anything I could recollect, could explain these, apparent, server 404s.

    Even when I, finally, resolved the issue I was still perplexed as to how the problematic changes occurred, in the first place.

    Now I know. I believe this wordpress “auto-update” broke this particular site. I have been running wordpress blogs for a good number of years, and can not recall ever running into a situation like this.

    Indeed, a primary reason why I “manually” update is so that I can make notes for myself; especially, in order to quickly “reverse” changes, if I run into a problem.

    bemdesign

    (@bemdesign)

    10 years ago

    Yes there are plugins to control/manage the auto-update feature.

    In your case I would recommend putting your site into a source control system and push out updates to your sites that way. This allows you to control the updates and also gives you a record of what changed and when.

    And it allows you to rollback individual files if needed. 🙂

    Thread Starter 040310b

    (@040310b)

    10 years ago

    Yes, I found one of those plugins, after I posted in this thread, in response to your reply.

    Hopefully, I have successfully turned off all automatic updates on this particular site. Now, I must do the same on the others.

    // ** Turn off all automatic wordpress updates ** //
    /** all automatic updates disabled */
    define( ‘AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED’, true );

    I read, very briefly, about using github with my wordpress sites, as recently as a couple days ago. I think that is a form of “source control”, but I lack “how to” knowledge, when it comes to using github in that manner, and about “source control”, in general.

    Hopefully, in the near future, I will have time to learn more about “source controlling” wordpress sites, to the extent that I can do so for my sites.

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