Hi @aarnekunnap 👋
That’s definitely an odd error. I’ll be honest – I have not come across this before. Could you try temporarily enabling automatic updates in Dashboard > Updates, by clicking on the: Enable automatic updates for all new versions of WordPress link? Then, can you see if your plugins/themes get auto-updated, OR, does the error still persist?
If that doesn’t fix the issue, my next guess would be that this might be a Cron-related issue. WordPress runs cron-jobs through a service called WP_Cron for routine tasks such as periodic update; update notifications might fail if WP_Cron might have some issues; and it might help to look into that. The WP Crontrol plugin does a good job of reporting any cron issues: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-crontrol/
You might also want to report this back to your web host to see if there are any issues with your installation that might be preventing updates.
Let us know if the troubles persist.
I have this line: The DISABLE_WP_CRON constant is set to true. WP-Cron spawning is disabled.
And there are many events where Action is set to none. Cant change them somehow.
Hi @aarnekunnap
I have this line: The DISABLE_WP_CRON constant is set to true. WP-Cron spawning is disabled.
I’m fairly certain that this is why your updates are not working. Enabling WP_Cron should fix the issue.
Could you go to your wp-config.php file and edit it to add the following line? define(‘DISABLE_WP_CRON’, false); This should enable WP_Cron for your site and re-enable updates.
You might also want to reach out to your web host to see if they have placed any restrictions on WP_Cron, if that doesn’t help.
Unable to edit this file. I download it and make the change true to false and save the file. If i try to upload it, i get error 400 or 404 or something. Upload it as .txt file and try to change the file name but getting error, something jsod file end is not correct. I may try to edit it into cpanel and see if that works.
Hi @aarnekunnap 👋
Unable to edit this file. I download it and make the change true to false and save the file. If i try to upload it, i get error 400 or 404 or something. Upload it as .txt file and try to change the file name but getting error, something jsod file end is not correct. I may try to edit it into cpanel and see if that works.
Hmm, it looks like your web host has set up some restrictions around the wp-config file. This file is quite sensitive and any issues with it might bring down your WP installation – so many hosts “secure” it.
I think you might want to reach out to your web host, and ask them to enable WP Cron for your installation. It looks like they may have intentionally disabled WP Cron, and you will need to ask them to re-enable this, to fix the issue.
Now i have set the true to false, but still the same problem. Wordfence is showing 6 updates but wp admin shows 0. If try to go and update plugins under wordfence i get the wp admin page with 0 updates.
