Gary Pendergast

I like this idea! I’ve just added the AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED wp-config option, it’ll be available in the next release.

A few thoughts:

* On the settings page, do you have all the options checked to keep WordPress, your themes and plugins up to date? (Only the WordPress core option is checked by default.)
* Do you have the Better WP Security plugin installed? If so, you will need to stop it from hiding updates.
* When you normally click the Update button, does everything update automatically? Do you need to type in FTP login details?

Thanks for the feedback!

The email already includes a link to the plugin page for each updated plugin, so you can click on that, then go to the Changelog page.

The problem with providing a changelog link for every plugin is that not all plugins use the Changelog section, or they sometime maintain their changelog offsite.

There shouldn’t be a problem with any of the cache plugins, Automatic Updater just uses the core update functions.

There may be an incompatibility with Better WP Security, which blocks some update information. In Security -> Tweaks -> Dashboard Tweaks, could you please check that all of the update notifications boxes are unchecked?

I think I’ve fixed this, I’ll be releasing a new version shortly with the fix in it – could you test that the error stops after upgrading?

Did you have any luck figuring out what was preventing the updates?

I don’t know how to trigger a backup for this plugin, but your code will look something like this:

add_action( 'auto_updater_before_update', 'the_backup_function' );

You’ll need to ask the backup plugin authors what function to replace the_backup_function with.

This code can be placed anywhere, though I naturally recommend you don’t put it somewhere it could be overwritten by an update. 🙂