Title: Plugin updates never complete? Last modified: August 24, 2016 --- # Plugin updates never complete? * [helices](https://wordpress.org/support/users/helices/) * (@helices) * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-updates-never-complete/) * I have dozens of up-to-date WordPress sites * For several months, ~1/3 of them never complete requested plugin updates * Whether I request one plugin update or I request several, the update begins, installs the .maintenance file in the root directory, but the site does not ever come out of maintenance mode. Of course, this requires me to wait ~15 minutes, login to cpanel and file manager to delete the .maintenance file, after which the plugin IS updated and the website works * This is especially tedious when one of these sites needs 7 or 9 plugin updates at same time, because I have to do the manual process above for every single plugin update * Thorough readers will correctly deduce that 2/3 of my many dozens of WordPress websites do NOT have this problem, automatically returning to active after one or several plugin updates. Many of these sites reside on same physical server as one or more of the errant sites * NOTE: I do not seem to have this problem with updates to WordPress itself … * Please, advise. Thank you Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * [abletec](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abletec/) * (@abletec) * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-updates-never-complete/#post-6100720) * Hi, helices, & welcome. Have you studied your server error logs to see if any errors are being produced when the updates go awry? If so, could you tell us what those are? * Thread Starter [helices](https://wordpress.org/support/users/helices/) * (@helices) * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-updates-never-complete/#post-6100769) * Do you mean “error_log” in the root directory for an errant updating site? * If so, no, there is nothing there from these update times * Thread Starter [helices](https://wordpress.org/support/users/helices/) * (@helices) * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-updates-never-complete/#post-6100776) * Today, after last night’s automatic WordPress update to 4.2.2, one errant site had one theme update and one plugin update * Both of these updates failed to return after >10 minutes * Ctrl-F5 on the theme update refreshed to a functioning admin panel * Ctrl-F5 on the plugin update refreshed to a Maintenance error, which required going into cpanel and deleting the .maintenance file * Again, on this same physical server, some sites do this and most update fully automatically without intervention * Again, ZERO updates to error_log in the site root * Thread Starter [helices](https://wordpress.org/support/users/helices/) * (@helices) * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-updates-never-complete/#post-6100829) * I would certainly appreciate a fix or, at least, an explanation for this annoying problem * Please, advise. Thank you * [siriomi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/siriomi/) * (@siriomi) * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-updates-never-complete/#post-6100864) * I’m having this issue as well, identical to what was described by helices. * [abletec](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abletec/) * (@abletec) * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-updates-never-complete/#post-6100865) * Gosh, helices, I’m so sorry–I just now got the email, & it’s clear you’ve posted several times. * What control panel are you using? * siriomi, welcome to the WordPress support forum. Although your problem may be similar, it’s likely your server configuration, etc., are not. If you’d please be so kind as to post your own topic per the forum guidelines at: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome) * Thread Starter [helices](https://wordpress.org/support/users/helices/) * (@helices) * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-updates-never-complete/#post-6100866) * Do you mean, hardware server cpanel? * If so, yes, they’re all using one version of cpanel or another * However, you must know, the errant WP installations reside on at least three ( 3) different hosting providers, and at least three (3) different hosts * Also, as previously stated, I have properly behaving WP installations on same hosts as errant WP installations * Furthermore, ALL of these errant WP installations DID work properly for many months and/or years, and ALL are running latest, uptodate WP v4.2.2 * Please, advise. Thank you * ~Mike * [Willem Perold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mike_2763/) * (@mike_2763) * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-updates-never-complete/#post-6100870) * Hi , * I just update my plugins manually ,when I get issues.Read more here [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-plugins-manually-via-ftp?replies=6](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-plugins-manually-via-ftp?replies=6) * _[ [Signature moderated](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Signatures)]_ * Thread Starter [helices](https://wordpress.org/support/users/helices/) * (@helices) * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-updates-never-complete/#post-6100871) * Yes, Willem, my “kludge” works, too * The purpose of my OP is to fix WordPress, so these errant instances behave same as the others and the expected behavior … * How can I do that? 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