Title: Upgrade problems including Deactivating "Automatic Maintenance"
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Upgrade problems including Deactivating "Automatic Maintenance"

 *  [drwilson89](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drwilson89/)
 * (@drwilson89)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-problems-including-deactivating-automatic-maintenance/)
 * Hi, Hector. Thanks for help a few years ago with Popular Posts.
    Yesterday I 
   logged on and upgraded to v 3.6 of WP. Then as I recall in the flurry of things
   I also clicked on update your Popular Posts.
 * Now I can’t get Popular Posts to show on the right side column of m site where
   it used to show. Sample entry: [http://naturalworldhealing.com/blog/animals-and-humans-saving-each-other/](http://naturalworldhealing.com/blog/animals-and-humans-saving-each-other/)
 * Formerly I had Popular Posts immediately beneath the Educational Sites and Roundtable.
   However, now when I drop the Popular Posts widget onto the active widget area
   the entire column goes blank.
 * Maybe there is a glitch that you are working on even as I type this.
 * One thing that I saw when I read your description is that you announced that 
   you are making it automatic that all older posts will be invisible if they are
   not as recent as you have chosen to allow.
 * My site’s blogs are intended to be a permanent, ongoing, gradual catalog of posts
   that I update. So, I’m really scared that ones that I began a few years ago won’t
   get past your Automatic Maintenance screen. I hope you understand and don’t take
   it personally. Maybe there is another widget that could do what yours used to
   do for me, but I have enjoyed your emails to me in the past during working out
   a glitch about thumbnail size.
 * Basically I have what might be two problems:
    1) I can’t get Popular Posts to
   show up without affecting the Educational Sites widget (every time I activate
   Popular Posts the entire Educational Sites area goes blank). 2) I want to have
   All Posts be included in the ranking,and not just those viewed in recent month.
 * I’ve put a lot of time into trying to fix this myself, and respect your time 
   in managing your Popular Posts creation. But I now need to ask if you’d check
   out what I’m trying to describe. Maybe the fix is there and I don’t know how 
   to find it. So, I’m here and humbly waiting to do what you tell me needs to be
   done.
 * Thanks!!! Ralph Wilson
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
 * (@hcabrera)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-problems-including-deactivating-automatic-maintenance/#post-4008088)
 * Hi Ralph,
 * Thanks for the detailed report. Actually, WPP has not been tested under 3.6 yet
   so chances are I need to update some stuff on the plugin to make it work with
   the latest version of WordPress. I can’t tell for sure until I upgrade to 3.6
   though, so I’ll come back once I try it out myself.
 *  Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
 * (@hcabrera)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-problems-including-deactivating-automatic-maintenance/#post-4008181)
 * Hey Ralph,
 * As you may have already noticed, the plugin got updated and now supports WordPress
   3.6. I checked and didn’t have any issues adding the widget to the sidebar, though.
   However, just now I did find a problem with plugin activation and WordPress 3.6
   that affects only new installations of the plugin – existing users should be 
   fine.
 * Is this issue still going on? Re-reading your comments again makes me think of
   a corrupted WordPress update, but to be sure can you add any other widgets onto
   the sidebar?

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 * Last reply from: [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-problems-including-deactivating-automatic-maintenance/#post-4008181)
 * Status: not resolved