Title: Inability to update plugins Last modified: August 11, 2026 --- # Inability to update plugins * [joey25zz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joey25zz/) * (@joey25zz) * [1 day, 12 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inability-to-update-plugins/) * For the past 6 days i have being unable to update over 8 plugins that needs to be updated. This is the first time I am experiencing this since i started using wordpress. Whenever i click on update for each plugin i get an error message ” Update failed: Connection lost or the server is busy. Please try again later.” i have tried severally and I keep getting the same message Meanwhile more and more plugins need to be updated. I will appreciate it if I can get a feedback onhow I can tackle this issue Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * Moderator [threadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threadi/) * (@threadi) * [1 day, 11 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inability-to-update-plugins/#post-18990389) * Check under Tools > Site Health to see if any issues are listed there. * Try deactivating all plugins just to test. Does it work then? If so, one of the plugins was the problem. * Thread Starter [joey25zz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joey25zz/) * (@joey25zz) * [1 day, 11 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inability-to-update-plugins/#post-18990398) * Thank you for your response. 2 issues are listed under sitehealth 1) you have plugins waiting to be updated and 2) you have themes waiting to be updated. I delibrately did not update my theme because when i tried updating it in the past it distorted the frontend so terribly that i had to restore back to the old version and still have to repair from the backend to restore the frontend to it’s original state * Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/) * (@jdembowski) * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad * [1 day, 10 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inability-to-update-plugins/#post-18990474) * [@joey25zz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joey25zz/) Your other duplicate topic was removed. Please keep your topic here, you have a general problem and not a specific plugin one. * [Bigul Malayi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbigul/) * (@mbigul) * [1 day, 6 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inability-to-update-plugins/#post-18990780) * Hi [@joey25zz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joey25zz/), * Hope you are using the latest version of WordPress (7.0.3). Please share the following information; it will help us track the issue. - Which theme are you using? - Have you enabled WordPress Debug Mode? If so, is it showing any errors? - Is there any difference in the results when all plugins are inactive? Take a **_full site backup_** (mandatory), deactivate all your plugins, and try to update your theme. - Are you using any security plugins? * Thread Starter [joey25zz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joey25zz/) * (@joey25zz) * [1 day, 1 hour ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inability-to-update-plugins/#post-18990997) * [@mbigul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbigul/) thank you for your response. I equally reached out to the hosting platform and I am sure that the issue is from their end. I just saw a response that they have updated the plugins. When I logged into the backend , I saw that the plugins are updated but I now have 2 other plugins that need to be updated and I am still having the same issue. I have reached out to them again. * [Bigul Malayi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbigul/) * (@mbigul) * [14 hours, 9 minutes ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inability-to-update-plugins/#post-18991332) * Hi [@joey25zz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joey25zz/), * You are welcome. Have you received any feedback from hosting on why this issue is happening? Please make sure your website is not infected with malware. * It may be similar to the following ticket: * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-no-longer-detects-updates/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-no-longer-detects-updates/) * Thread Starter [joey25zz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joey25zz/) * (@joey25zz) * [6 hours, 7 minutes ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inability-to-update-plugins/#post-18991761) * [@mbigul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbigul/) , thank you for yur response. I am yet to hear from them. As per [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-no-longer-detects-updates/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-no-longer-detects-updates/) I do not think that that is my case. I get notification of plugins that need udating and when I log in at the backend , i see all the plugins that are due for update. But when I click on the update button I get the error message mentioned earlier. Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) You must be [logged in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Finability-to-update-plugins%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to reply to this topic. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 10 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [joey25zz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joey25zz/) * Last activity: [6 hours, 7 minutes ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inability-to-update-plugins/#post-18991761) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics