Gary Pendergast
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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Advanced Automatic Updates] Plugin updates are not workingIn Settings -> Advanced Automatic Updates, do you have “update plugins automatically” enabled? When you initially install AAU, this defaults to disabled.
Happy to help!
Merry Christmas to you, too. 🙂
That’s something I’ve been thinking about – I plan on making it available, but It’s going to take some work. 🙂
That’s correct!
In keeping with the name, I’ll be adding more “advanced” features in the future, but if all you want to do is enable all updates, you can just set it and forget it. 🙂
Once WordPress started doing updates, my plugin stopped doing them intentionally, instead enabling the options to let WordPress do it all.
WordPress doesn’t show any options in wp-admin to enable major updates or plugin/theme updates, that’s where my plugin comes in. 🙂
Did you have the plugin installed before 3.7, with theme/plugin updates enabled? If so, it automatically enabled theme/plugin updates when 3.7 was installed.
That email is sent by WordPress, those plugins have been background updated.
No, this plugin isn’t required for background updates.
By default, WordPress will update between minor versions (3.7 -> 3.7.1), but won’t update between major versions (3.7 -> 3.8), and won’t update plugins and themes.
In order to enable all updates, you can create a small plugin that enables them, as described here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Configuring_Automatic_Background_Updates
Alternatively, you can install Advanced Automatic Updates, and just check the boxes to enable them. 🙂
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Advanced Automatic Updates] Advanced Automatic Updates doesn't work anymoreHere’s an update from Nacin on the subject of major version auto-updates.
Assuming nothing changes, you can expect 3.9 to start auto updating as soon as it’s available.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Advanced Automatic Updates] Advanced Automatic Updates doesn't work anymoreI have some ideas to ensure the update happens sooner, without waiting for the go-ahead from the WordPress.org API – I’ll hopefully have some time to implement them soon. 🙂
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Advanced Automatic Updates] Advanced Automatic Updates doesn't work anymoreThe 3.7.1 -> 3.8 update should start happening over the next 24 hours – there were some changes made on the WordPress.org side to allow the update to happen automatically.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Advanced Automatic Updates] Advanced Automatic Updates doesn't work anymoreThere are a bunch of reasons why an auto-update would fail – the updater sanity checks as much as possible, and errs on the side of “if I’m not sure, don’t update”.
Could I get you to check the Spam folder of the Admin email account for the sites that haven’t updated? There may be an email with the subject “WordPress 3.7.1 is available. Please update!”, which would indicate the auto-updater decided not to update.
Finally, please go ahead and perform a manual update – I don’t think there’s any more data we can get out of your sites, so it’d be better for them to be up-to-date.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Advanced Automatic Updates] Advanced Automatic Updates doesn't work anymoreCould I get you to install the Background Update Tester plugin on the site, and see what it finds?
As for how the plugin works, WordPress Core checks for updates sometime around 7pm and 7am, based on the local time of you site. If it finds updates, then they’ll be installed then (depending on your settings, of course).
Currently, there isn’t a method for changing when this occurs, but it’s something I’ll look at adding in a later version. It’s also not possible to trigger externally, though that’s another good idea I’ll look at implementing.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Advanced Automatic Updates] Plugin suddenly stopped workingAs you’ve discovered, updates don’t happen immediately any more – they actually happen around 7am or 7pm according to your server time. This is intentional on the part of WordPress Core, to spread out updates over a longer period.
In a future plugin release, I’ll add an option to install updates as soon as they become available.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Advanced Automatic Updates] no longer receiving update notificationsThe plugin now uses the core emails, there’s currently only one defined for a Core update, but none for plugins or themes.
As a workaround, enabling debug emails will send you an email when plugins and themes are updated.