WP 5.6 Update Unavailable
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To start I’m not a tech person so have limited understanding of all this.
I noticed thousands of PHP changes in Codeguard so I went to site to check on things. I started making sure plugins, etc were all updated. Now, two of my plugins say I need to update to latest version of WordPress but update option says I’m up to date, etc. I’m only at 5.2.4.
PHP version which is 7.2.34. Called hosting (Network Solutions) and they’ve escalated because for whatever reason they cannot automatically update me to 7.4? I’m not even sure this is the issue.
Any suggestions?
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It’s the issue. You need to be on PHP version 7 to get the latest versions of WP. Keep pushing on NetSol.
I’m on the phone with them now because I just received an email stating they are unable to update to 7.4. Is there a reason they may not be able to that you know of?
No. You need to talk to them. If that’s unproductive, we have hosting recommendations.
Thanks so much Steven for your guidance. They were less than helpful. Long story short, they are holding me hostage to upgrade to their Unix hosting package but I’m less than inclined to comply so I’m going to find another provider.
I do have one last question. In theory, should I expect a decline in ranking/traffic until I make the move? I plan to do so asap but thinking it may be a few days to make the switch.
I don’t see what that would have to do with SEO.
Hi Steven, in dealing with Netsol I’ve learned that I am in fact running PHP 7. I am unable to update WP beyond 5.2.4. Can you provide any guidance?
Please install the health check plugin and report back its findings: https://wordpress.org/plugins/health-check/
See https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/appendix/troubleshooting-using-the-health-check/ for more information.
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I don’t know if this is relevant but I was reading through some other posts and noticed where someone mentioned perhaps a WP IP address is blocked. I think I permanently blocked 10.30.88.254 recently because Wordfence is constantly telling me attacks from this IP are blocked <can’t quite figure out how to unblock at this point. May be unrelated.
Please just go to the info tab and click “copy”, then paste the results here. I’m interested in knowing if it thinks updates are being blocked and what version of PHP it’s seeing.
### wp-core ### version: 5.2.4 site_language: en_US user_language: en_US permalink: /%postname%/ https_status: true user_registration: 0 default_comment_status: open multisite: false user_count: 2 dotorg_communication: true ### wp-paths-sizes ### wordpress_path: /data/user5/2020/34/17228/wordpress/.a2d9c0fd6720cd8a8684dd52ef32deb8 wordpress_size: 52.27 MB (54804253 bytes) uploads_path: /data/user5/2020/34/17228/wordpress/.a2d9c0fd6720cd8a8684dd52ef32deb8/wp-content/uploads uploads_size: 17.64 MB (18495341 bytes) themes_path: /data/user5/2020/34/17228/wordpress/.a2d9c0fd6720cd8a8684dd52ef32deb8/wp-content/themes themes_size: 6.39 MB (6705630 bytes) plugins_path: /data/user5/2020/34/17228/wordpress/.a2d9c0fd6720cd8a8684dd52ef32deb8/wp-content/plugins plugins_size: 36.27 MB (38035188 bytes) database_size: 9.45 MB (9912320 bytes) total_size: 122.03 MB (127952732 bytes) ### wp-active-theme ### name: FlashWP PRO (flashwp-pro) version: 1.0.0 author: ThemesDNA author_website: https://themesdna.com/ parent_theme: none theme_features: automatic-feed-links, title-tag, post-thumbnails, menus, html5, custom-logo, custom-header, custom-background, editor-style, woocommerce, widgets theme_path: /data/user5/2020/34/17228/wordpress/.a2d9c0fd6720cd8a8684dd52ef32deb8/wp-content/themes/flashwp-pro ### wp-themes-inactive (2) ### FlashWP: version: 1.0.1, author: ThemesDNA Twenty Seventeen: version: 2.6, author: the WordPress team ### wp-mu-plugins (2) ### Health Check Troubleshooting Mode: author: (undefined), version: 1.7.2 Web.com - Plugin/Theme Auto Updater: version: 1.0.0, author: Web.com ### wp-plugins-active (13) ### Broken Link Checker: version: 1.11.5, author: Janis Elsts, Vladimir Prelovac Call Now Button: version: 0.4.0, author: Jerry Rietveld Contact Form 7: version: 5.0.1, author: Takayuki Miyoshi Head, Footer and Post Injections: version: 3.1.6, author: Stefano Lissa Health Check & Troubleshooting: version: 1.4.5, author: The WordPress.org community JSM's Force HTTP to HTTPS: version: 3.1.1, author: JS Morisset Rank Math SEO: version: 1.0.47.1, author: Rank Math Really Simple CAPTCHA: version: 2.0.1, author: Takayuki Miyoshi Really Simple SSL: version: 3.2.9, author: Rogier Lankhorst, Mark Wolters TinyMCE Advanced: version: 4.6.7, author: Andrew Ozz Web.com - Cache Manager: version: 0.1.0, author: Web.com Wordfence Security: version: 7.1.10, author: Wordfence WP Smush: version: 2.7.8, author: WPMU DEV ### wp-plugins-inactive (3) ### Blog2Social: Social Media Auto Post & Scheduler: version: 6.5.8, author: Blog2Social, Adenion Google XML Sitemaps: version: 4.0.9, author: Arne Brachhold TablePress: version: 1.9, author: Tobias Bäthge ### wp-media ### image_editor: WP_Image_Editor_Imagick imagick_module_version: 1690 imagemagick_version: ImageMagick 6.9.10-68 Q16 x86_64 2020-04-01 https://imagemagick.org imagick_limits: imagick::RESOURCETYPE_AREA: 63 GB imagick::RESOURCETYPE_DISK: 9.2233720368548E+18 imagick::RESOURCETYPE_FILE: 768 imagick::RESOURCETYPE_MAP: 63 GB imagick::RESOURCETYPE_MEMORY: 31 GB imagick::RESOURCETYPE_THREAD: 4 gd_version: 2.3.0 ghostscript_version: 9.25 ### wp-server ### server_architecture: Linux 3.10.0-1160.15.2.el7.x86_64 x86_64 httpd_software: Apache/2.4.6 (CentOS) mpm-itk/2.4.7-04 mod_fcgid/2.3.9 PHP/7.2.34 php_version: 7.2.34 64bit php_sapi: apache2handler max_input_variables: 2000 time_limit: 180 memory_limit: 256M max_input_time: 60 upload_max_size: 100M php_post_max_size: 100M curl_version: 7.29.0 NSS/3.53.1 suhosin: false imagick_availability: true server-headers: server: openresty/1.17.8.2 date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 21:40:42 GMT content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 vary: Accept-Encoding x-webcom-cache: enabled x-powered-by: PHP/7.2.34 expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT cache-control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0 link: Array strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 x-content-type-options: nosniff x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN x-xss-protection: "1; mode=block" referrer-policy: no-referrer-when-downgrade x-webcom-cache-status: MISS content-encoding: gzip htaccess_extra_rules: true ### wp-database ### extension: mysqli server_version: 5.7.27-30-log client_version: mysqlnd 5.0.12-dev - 20150407 - $Id: 3591daad22de08524295e1bd073aceeff11e6579 $ ### wp-constants ### WP_HOME: undefined WP_SITEURL: undefined WP_CONTENT_DIR: /data/user5/2020/34/17228/wordpress/.a2d9c0fd6720cd8a8684dd52ef32deb8/wp-content WP_PLUGIN_DIR: /data/user5/2020/34/17228/wordpress/.a2d9c0fd6720cd8a8684dd52ef32deb8/wp-content/plugins WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT: 256M WP_DEBUG: false WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY: true WP_DEBUG_LOG: false SCRIPT_DEBUG: false WP_CACHE: false CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS: undefined COMPRESS_SCRIPTS: undefined COMPRESS_CSS: undefined WP_LOCAL_DEV: undefined ### wp-filesystem ### wordpress: writable wp-content: writable uploads: writable plugins: writable themes: writable mu-plugins: writableThis looks suspicious:
Web.com – Plugin/Theme Auto Updater
Can you disable it?
In any case, I don’t see any reason why WP should not update. Try doing so manually: https://wordpress.org/support/article/updating-wordpress/#manual-update
I’m unable to do anything with Web.com – they own NetSol. Since my initial post I’ve gone pretty far up engineering/tech support to dig deeper to see if anything is amiss on that end.
Is there an option to manually updating as the instructions are quite daunting.
You really only need to do step #1, replace the files.
I have had clients on NetSol and I moved them to another host as fast as I could. 🙂
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