2.7 Automatic Plugin Upgrades

  • shatland

    (@shatland)


    17 years, 2 months ago

    Is there ANYBODY out there that can use the automatic plugin upgrade/install in WordPress 2.7?

    I always get a permission issue about something in wp-settings (line 465), which then permeates into several other ‘include’ warnings/errors. I have to delete the plugin, then go back to the Plugins Screen in Administration where it says the plugin has been deactivated because of an error. I then delete the folder out of wp-content/plugins, and install it MANUALLY and it usually clears all of the errors.

    There is a CRITICAL issue with this functionality and it is utter crap that nobody seems to have responded with a solution or acknowledgment of the issue. I’m surely not going to put everything at 777, as that seems to have worked for some.

    Thoughts?

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  • Mark

    (@wpsec)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    The solution – really – is to simply not use the automatic upgrade feature. Handle upgrades manually. And you’re right, putting file permissions at 777 is begging for trouble…

    Thread Starter shatland

    (@shatland)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    Agreed…but it makes me mad 🙂 It just seems easier to do it in those screens and I don’t understand why they were shipped out when it is clear they don’t work.

    Oh Well, maybe next release. For now, I’ll keep to the manual route.

    Mark

    (@wpsec)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    Just do what I do: Pretend the feature was never added 🙂 It was bound to cause a lot of grief because whoever wrote that part of the WordPress code made a megaton of assumptions – and from what I’ve been told there won’t be much of any fix progress put into automatic upgrades until WP 2.9! Unless of course someone discovers a security hole in it. They’ll fix that pronto.

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