Update Notifier plugin still sending email notices…

I believe you must have the WP-Security-Scanner plugin running. This changes the global $wp_version to be ‘abc’.

The fix for this is commenting out line 53 in securityscan.php, the line which reads:
add_action("init",mrt_remove_wp_version,1);

I’m updating this plugin to include a warning about this and some stuff in the FAQ.

Thanks

yes i had the above problem too, didnt have security scan plugin installed.

nice plugin, been looking for something like this.

just a heads up duck, the link on the plugin page to your website is dead and needs updating:

http://lionsgoroar.co.uk/wordpress/update-notifier/

yes its saying im running version abc. Running 2.9.2. Not running any custom installation too far from standard.

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Hope you can help. Very useful plugin.

thanks

Carl

I am still unable to reproduce this (tried with the same setup as you carl_pilk), and also I am finding it hard to work out how it could happen. Update Notifier uses settings saved by WordPress itself to check if a new version is available, so I would have thought that you would also be seeing the yellow update nag in the administration area.

It may be helpful to check what is saved in this setting to get some more information on what is going on. All the info (for core updates) used by Update Notifier is taken from the ‘update_core’ transient. I have a test version update-notifier-menu.php which displays the admin menu with extra info and doesn’t send emails. Just place that in the main plugin directory (along with hello.php – that is Hello Dolly) and activate it (after deactivating the normal version of Update Notifier). The actual code for doing this (if you want to add this yourself instead) is: $current = get_transient('update_core'); print_r( $current );

In the test plugin the (possibly) useful output is under the heading “Contents of update_core transient” at the bottom of the Update Notifier admin menu page.

After doing that you could also try using the development version – link straight to the zip or go to Other Versions on the Update Notifier page – to see if there’s a difference (don’t see what though!)

Sorry I cannot be of more help atm, scratching my head in disbelief mostly 🙁

Well that looks as I would expect it to, after much searching I cannot see what is going wrong here…

Were you able to try the development version?

Will continue to see if I can find out what is happening.

im still getting the same problem since running the latest version of update notifier.

how do i stop it?

It’s time to update the version of WordPress running at…from version abc to 2.9.2.

getting it across all my sites. any fix and Im happy to donate.

hi duck,

im getting the same problem. i updated wp to 3.0 some days ago, yet got this message today:

It’s time to update the version of WordPress running from version 2.9.2 to 3.0.

weird as im not running WP-Security-Scanner (i did have it installed some time ago, but uninstalled it)

Please implement reading the real installed WordPress-version from the database, the contents of the $wp_version variable are changed by several security plugins, for good reason!!