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Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin

Keith Dsouza
WordPress Plugins

Update: This plugin apparently does not work well when the webuser and ftp users are different. I have overcome those problems and working on testing the latest version which works fine on all systems including the above ones. I would be releasing a new version later this week which will fix all the bugs that have been reported. Thanks for all your help in making this plugin more stable. Latest version released with all bug fixes. Click here to go to latest version page.I have away for the past couple of works partly due to being busy and partly due to this new plugin that I was developing for Wordpress. With help from Ronald Heureca who has helped with automating the plugin I proudly release Wordpress Automatic Upgrade.

What is Wordpress Automatic Upgrade?

Wordpress Automatic Upgrade is a plugin that automatically upgrades your wordpress version to the latest files provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions.

WPAU as I call it helps you easily upgrading you to easily upgrade your wordpress installation to the latest version provided by wordpress, without having to download or upload any files.

In addition to this it automatically backups your current file and database and provides you with a link to download those. De-activates your plugins and remembers them so that after upgrading files it will re-activate those without you having to make any notes for which plugins you de-activated and the biggest saves you headaches of upgrading your wordpress installation.

Here is what WPAU does;

1. Backs up the files and makes available a link to download it.
2. Backs up the database and makes available a link to download it.
3. Downloads the latest files from http://wordpress.org/latest.zip and unzips it.
4. Puts the site in maintenance mode.
5. De-activates all active plugins and remembers it.
6. Upgrades wordpress files.
7. Gives you a link that will open in a new window to upgrade installation.
8. Re-activates the plugins.

The plugin can also can be run in a automated mode where in you do not have to click on any links to go to the next step.

FAQ

What is Wordpress Automatic Upgrade?

Wordpress Automatic Upgrade is a plugin that automatically upgrades your wordpress version to the latest files provided by wordpress.org.

Why use this plugin?

Wordpress releases regular updates and security fixes to the software and after sometime makes it mandatory. Every time you have to manually upgrade your wordpress installation. This plugin helps you to upgrade your installation without any efforts. We also ensure you will always download the latest version.

Which version of the wordpress does it upgrade to?

It upgrades to the latest version that wordpress has made available for download.

What is the lowest version from which I can upgrade?

The lowest version of Wordpress I have tested this to work is with Wordpress 1.5.

Why don’t you provide a option for me to upload the version I want?

Couple of things here. a. You should always upgrade to the latest version provided by Wordpress. b. I do not want users to upload files that requires me to do multiple validations. The wordpress files that this plugin downloads is the best one I could use.

Will it remember the plugins that were active?

Yes it will remember the plugins that were active before upgradation and only activate those plugins.

How much bandwidth does the plugin use?

The plugin using about 2-3MB of your bandwidth to download files. You will use more than that in a regular upgrade process.

How long will my files and db backups be available?

This plugin is to be used for a continious process till completion, it provides you with backups which you should download before moving to the next step. If you do not download the backups, at the end of the process you will be given an option to download it. Clicking clean up will delete those backup files.

Where are the files and db backup stored?

The files are db backups are stored in a folder called wpau-backup in the root folder of your site.

Does wordpress automatic upgrade provide a rollback?

No it does not, the function of WPAU is to seamlessly upgrade your versions. Rollback features will be added in future versions.

Installation Instructions

1. Download the wordpress-automatic-upgrade.zip file to your local machine.
2. Unzip the file
3. Upload `wordpress-automatic-upgrade` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
4. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Usage Instructions

Go to Manage -> Automatic Upgrade and either click on the link provided to run or use the automated version link to let the plugin run in a automated way.

ChangeLog

  • Version 0.1 released Tuesday, July 17th 2007

License

All files and their contents are licensed under the General Public License(GPL).

Support

If you feel this plugin has helped you can leave a small donation towards further plugin development.


Download

Download Wordpress Automatic Upgrade v0.1 downloaded 63114 times

Please note this plugin is still in beta state and may have bugs. If you find any bugs or want to report any problems you have faced please feel free to leave your comments or you can send me a email at wpplugins@techie-buzz.com

This plugin is a part of the Weblog Tools Collection plugin competition too.

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  1. ReviewSaurus
    July 17th, 2007 at 7:01 pm #

    Wow it has to be the best plugin ever made for wordpress!!

  2. keith
    July 17th, 2007 at 7:08 pm #

    Thanks for the compliments.

  3. Brown Baron
    July 17th, 2007 at 8:03 pm #

    Impressive. I’m sure a lot of people will be upgrading now that they can use this plugin. Great work buddy.
    Stumbled.

  4. pelf
    July 17th, 2007 at 8:07 pm #

    I’ve not tried it but I thought I should alert you that WordPress is spelt “WordPress”, not “Wordpress” or “wordpress”. It may mean just a typo for you, but people will question your credibility if you can’t even get the platforn name straight..

  5. keith
    July 17th, 2007 at 8:12 pm #

    Hey pelf,

    Pardon my spelling mistake but how does it question my credibility on not naming a platform. FYI wordpress is not in the dictionary so however you spell it it’s always wrong may it be WordPress, Wordpress or wordpress. This is not a spelling competition.

    Keith

  6. keith
    July 17th, 2007 at 8:13 pm #

    Hey thanks for appreciating Baron.

  7. Nirmal
    July 17th, 2007 at 8:28 pm #

    Keith,
    This is a great plugin for wordpress.

  8. pelf
    July 17th, 2007 at 8:41 pm #

    I have downloaded and tried the plugin to upgrade from version 2.1.3 but it doesn’t work..

  9. pelf
    July 17th, 2007 at 8:47 pm #

    Hi Keith

    Yeah, I understand this isn’t a spelling competition, and I hope you don’t take my comment personally. To quote an article Lorelle wrote on Blog Herald:

    WordPress is a trademark and thus must be spelled appropriately. This has been explained redundantly, so when I see a blog post with Wordpress not WordPress and Wordpress plug-in not WordPress Plugin, the article loses some of its luster.

    I try to ignore it, but it does score a bit against the credibility of the author who should know better. It isn’t a killer but it does downgrade my score for inclusion.

    Why? If their attention to detail skips the proper spelling of these words, what does that say for the information they are presenting. What little detail has been overlooked or ignored? Should I risk recommending something that might be flawed?

  10. Ronald Huereca
    July 17th, 2007 at 9:07 pm #

    WordPress, wordpress, Wordpress, wp, wordPress, WP… :) All the same to me personally, but I still spell it WordPress.

    pelf,
    I’ve had issues with one of my hosts and the issue seems to be folder permissions. What step is yours failing at and are you using the automated version or the step-by-step version?

  11. Mr.Byte
    July 17th, 2007 at 10:30 pm #

    Thats a great plugin and saves a lot of time…

  12. Shankar Ganesh
    July 18th, 2007 at 5:15 am #

    Awesome Job, Keith. Will surely help people like me.

  13. Trakin
    July 18th, 2007 at 8:25 am #

    Keith,
    What an awesome WP plugin release. I am sure once this plugin goes through iterations and refinements, it could be a part of Wordpress itself. Imagine the amount of time you are going to save for thousands of bloggers. Not only that, the updation process will become so simple and the update to WP’s will be so much faster.
    I can’t thank you enough for providing this plugin to WordPress Community. Well done and keep up the good work !
    One of the major reasons for success of WordPress paltform is due to the quality releases you guys provide, without asking back much in return !

  14. keith
    July 18th, 2007 at 8:29 am #

    Hey Trakin,

    Thank you. Yes when its open source you get lot of quality enhancements and refinements done and that’s what the worpdress community is about.

  15. Stefan
    July 18th, 2007 at 11:55 am #

    The plugin won’t get past stage 1 with my WordPress weblog.
    I get some errors:

    Warning: is_dir(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/var/www/vhosts/myurl.com/httpdocs/..) is not within the allowed path(s): (/var/www/vhosts/myurl.com/httpdocs:/tmp) in /var/www/vhosts/myurl.com/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_zip.class.php on line 91

    WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘ task_log = ‘

    I couldn’t find any documentation about file permissions, settings or restrictions… Is there any available?

  16. keith
    July 18th, 2007 at 12:27 pm #

    Hi Stefan,

    Thanks for the error. I will definitely work on this and fix this error and release with the next version.

    Thanks
    Keith

  17. Benedict Herold
    July 18th, 2007 at 2:34 pm #

    Keith, you have got a great plugin but i didn’t have a chance it try it though. Once this plugin becomes stable won’t it be a better idea to integrate with WordPress release itself?

  18. keith
    July 19th, 2007 at 8:27 am #

    Hi Benedict yes once the plugin becomes stable I will definitely push for integration.

  19. Kyle Eslick
    July 19th, 2007 at 5:06 pm #

    Wow, I was wondering where you were. This is a good excuse :)

  20. Wojtek
    July 21st, 2007 at 8:33 am #

    I wonder how FFS nobody has registered the fact, that this plugin doesn’t put the site back from maintenance mode to production mode.

    Now I have my test site (thanks God I was cautious enough not to put it on my production site!) displaying some nice:

    “The Site is currently undergoing maintenance, Sorry for the inconvinience
    Wordpress Automatic Upgrade Plugin provided by Techie Buzz.”

    Any way to get rid of this?

  21. keith
    July 21st, 2007 at 8:45 am #

    Hi Wojtek,

    This message should go away when you complete the entire process. Did you complete the entire process?

    To do away with this message simply delete the index.php in your root directory and rename index.php.wpau.bak to index.php.

    Thanks
    Keith

  22. Wojtek
    July 21st, 2007 at 11:14 am #

    Hi Keith,

    glad you’ve been so quick, even though we’re in totally different timezones.
    Yes, I’ve run the process from the very beginning to the end. However there were some issues I’d try to pinpoint:

    a) when I settled down for the ‘automatic’ process (it’s a test site after all), the automatic procedure failed on step #1. But it was all OK when I ran it step-by-step manually.

    b) the pre-final screen provides a bit of disambiguation - there’s a link “final step here!” leading to DB upgrade, and another one, a bit below, leading to the “final step” (display of changed files, additional links for DB backup download etc).

    c) I’ve tried to run this script on a site that doesn’t allow ZIP unpacking by PHP - I believe a quick preflight check of site capabilities would be nice.

    Finally, a “manual override of maintenance mode” (actually a solution for my case ;-) ) would also be quite helpful in troubleshooting.

    Thanks again for the tip, I didn’t thought of taking a peek into the root dir ;-)

  23. keith
    July 21st, 2007 at 11:24 am #

    Hi Wojtek,

    First of all the quick reply is possible using another plugin I had created earlier called Better Comments Manager :).

    For your queries.

    a. The issue with a has been fixed I am releasing a new version probably today or tomm that should take care of it.
    b. I understand that issue but I am trying a way to fix it.
    c. I am running a pre check now in the latest version. I would absolutely fix all issue you report and will definitely take this into the fix process when I release the next version.

    Yes this plugin is young and so the FAQ’s are not up to the mark. I will definitely add this to the FAQ too.

  24. Janis Elsts
    July 25th, 2007 at 3:49 am #

    Failed at first step with a lengthy (full page) error message beginning with :

    WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ' task_log = '<br /><br /><br />&ltstrong>Creating</strong> files backup archive at' at line 1]
    UPDATE wpau_upgrade_log set task_status = , task_log =’ (…)

    I looked at the source code and it looks like something might be failing in wpau_backup_files(), though I’m not sure yet. I think I found a different mistake though - in wpauPersist(), line 786 says
    $wpdb->query('UPDATE '.WPAU_LOG_TABLE.' set task_status = '.$funcComplete.', (…)

    When $funcComplete is false (as in my case when wpau_backup_files() apparently fails) this line will evaluate to … task_status = , … -> incorrect MySQL syntax. If I were you I’d use intval($funcComplete) here (there might be a better way, I don’t know :P)

  25. keith
    July 25th, 2007 at 10:47 am #

    Hi Janis,

    Thanks for the information. I have already fixed the bug and also others which this plugin had. I am doing some testing right now and should release a newer version this weekend.

  26. Mybloggo
    July 25th, 2007 at 12:12 pm #

    Help me!!!! after i upgrade using this plugin……My blog is not working

  27. Mybloggo
    July 25th, 2007 at 12:30 pm #

    Faster reply me………

  28. keith
    July 25th, 2007 at 1:24 pm #

    Hi John,

    Can you please tell me the issue you are facing I would be glad to help you out and fix the problem.

    Keith

  29. Humberto Valentin
    July 25th, 2007 at 9:12 pm #

    I LOVE YOU
    i have 6 sites and is a pain in the a** update all them but now i can take vacations you are the best , i hope yoo can make the same with the templates

  30. Thilak
    July 27th, 2007 at 8:19 pm #

    Like always, Keith’s plugins are always the best. Thanks for reliving the upgrade pain

  31. MTO
    July 30th, 2007 at 8:07 am #

    Hello,
    I wanted to try this, but after it asks for my ftp account I get these errors:

    Warning: ftp_mkdir() [function.ftp-mkdir]: No directory name in /home/mysite/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 393

    Warning: ftp_site() [function.ftp-site]: No file name in /home/mysite/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 399

    I does say “done WPAU is ready to roll”, but in view of the above errors I didnt know if it would be safe, so I didnt proceed.
    I have no idea what to do, what can be done?

    Thanks.

  32. Vic
    August 2nd, 2007 at 7:46 pm #

    Thanks for such a great list of plugins, this list are so helpful for the new guy.

    Thanks

    Vic

  33. Paul B.
    August 5th, 2007 at 9:22 am #

    Awesome plug in. Thank you!

  34. Nspeaks
    August 5th, 2007 at 8:22 pm #

    The plugin worked wonderfully updating 2.2.1 to 2.2.2 but it doesn’t reactivate the plugins after the upgrade. Please fix this problem. This problem is also faced by one more user I know in updgrading from 2.2.1 to 2.2.2

    Read about it at http://www.johnchow.com/wordpress-222-and-2011-security-update/#comment-93026

  35. keith
    August 7th, 2007 at 10:23 am #

    Hi Nspeaks,

    I have found out this bug and this issue should be fixed and a patched version released shortly.

  36. Dave
    August 8th, 2007 at 6:35 am #

    Thanks for developing the plug in. Very useful.

  37. lester
    August 8th, 2007 at 9:21 am #

    Thanks!

  38. keith
    August 9th, 2007 at 8:21 am #

    thanks for the appreciation dave.

  39. Deelip
    August 9th, 2007 at 12:55 pm #

    Wow, this iasawesome.
    I’ve just succefully upgraded my wordpress blog.

  40. Dave Zan
    August 10th, 2007 at 11:42 pm #

    Just found this plugin and decided to give it a try. But upon trying to just activate it, I get this:

    “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.”

    Just read the blog entry and saw the link here, so here you go.

  41. Eduardo Larequi
    August 11th, 2007 at 11:42 am #

    Great job. As we say in spanish, “funciona como un reloj” (it works like clockwork).

  42. Venki
    August 28th, 2007 at 2:07 am #

    Hi, Thanks for the wonderful plugin. I am not able to go beyond backing up the files and the database. When the plugin tries to download the latest version it fails with the following message

    Task Name: getlatestfiles
    Task Description: Downloads / Uploads the latest files for wordpress
    Task Status: Failed
    Task Start Date: 2007-08-28 09:56:21
    Task End Date: 2007-08-28 09:57:21
    Task Log: Starting to download the file from http://wordpress.org/latest.zip
    Downloading the file using FOPEN methodERROR -> Remote File Error -> Could not read remote file. Please specify a proper path

    Can you please help with the error, so that I can upgrade my two blogs without any problems.
    Thanks once again for the wonderful plugin.

  43. matthew feldman
    August 28th, 2007 at 9:27 am #

    I keep getting error messages:
    Warning: ftp_chdir() [function.ftp-chdir]: /-public_html: No such file or directory in /home/cfl/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/Automatic Update/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 203

    Warning: ftp_site() [function.ftp-site]: -public_html: No such file or directory in /home/cfl/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/Automatic Update/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 166

    Warning: ftp_chdir() [function.ftp-chdir]: -public_html: No such file or directory in /home/cfl/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/Automatic Update/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 395

  44. Robert
    September 3rd, 2007 at 2:02 pm #

    Works like a charm. Installed plug-in, clicked the auto upgrade feature and away it went. No problems. What a great plug-in… much appreciated.

  45. keith
    September 3rd, 2007 at 5:12 pm #

    Hey Robert,

    Glad you liked it.

    Keith

  46. Uber-Geek
    September 5th, 2007 at 4:39 pm #

    Tested it on three Wordpress installations.

    If running from a www domain, the manual process will time out after the backup, when it’s doing the upgrade. Nothing happens on the server side, the site is left alone.

    On subdomains, I get the following 404 error:
    /wp-admin/page=wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php&task=files&_wpnonce=9ae31c0183 was not found on this server.

    I’ve tried this on two subdomain installs, and one www domain install.

    Hope this helps the debugging process. I’m looking forward to see this working 100%. Updating multiple wordpress installs is a pain.

  47. keith
    September 5th, 2007 at 4:44 pm #

    Hey Uber,

    Thanks for the information, I will fix the above errors and release a patched version soon.

    Keith

  48. Colin Dean
    September 8th, 2007 at 12:12 pm #

    It would be nice to have a list of all the files that need to be writable. Or, better yet, a shell script that asks for the username of your web server user and then sets the permissions correctly. I don’t run FTP for security and memory reasons (SFTP only).

  49. Mark
    September 9th, 2007 at 1:03 pm #

    A great plugin, one of the best really!
    But there is a little error:
    wpau_prelimcheck.class.php:90
    if($thePerms[2]

  50. Eric
    September 12th, 2007 at 4:44 am #

    How long should it take to upgrade? I seem to be stuck at step one… I see a wpau-backup folder is created, it has to files in it, both 0 k. This for about an hour and a half. Should I wait? should I cancel (if possible?)

    thnx for you help.

  51. humberto
    September 12th, 2007 at 9:29 pm #

    all the users can update and is not ok only admin can do that , will be great to fix this.
    But in general work great.

  52. Clive Murray
    September 13th, 2007 at 3:39 am #

    I’m getting the 404 as well. First of all I see this “Great the preliminiary checks of your server is complete and WPAU is ready to roll. Click here so that we can start the upgrade.”

    So I click there, and it 404s immediately. I don’t have WordPress installed in the root of my domain, but in /wp/ - could this be causing the problem? My installation is v2.2 and I was hoping to upgrade to v2.2.3, but I’m having no joy.

    –c.

  53. humberto
    September 13th, 2007 at 9:13 pm #

    in my case take only 1 min and a i try in 6 diferent sites

  54. mrben
    September 14th, 2007 at 1:10 am #

    Upgrade worked fine, apart from not being able to reactivate the plugins at the end.

  55. enQuira
    September 14th, 2007 at 12:55 pm #

    Hi Keith, Thanks a lot for the great plugin. It works like a charm.
    I only had an issue with a blog with ver large database >100MB. Is there a way you can make the backup step optional.
    Thanks

  56. My Lil Venture
    September 14th, 2007 at 4:45 pm #

    I couldn’t wait to try it but when I did today, I got error at Stage 3. Anyone have any idea what that means?

  57. Finis Price
    September 15th, 2007 at 10:10 am #

    I get the following error when trying to use auto run:
    Could not successfully get the latest WordPress installation. Failed at Step 3.
    Anyone know how to fix this?

  58. scoot
    September 22nd, 2007 at 4:15 pm #

    Hey Kieth,
    Thanks for the plug in, I know it will be a good thing. Whenever I activate it though I get:
    WordPress database error: [Lost connection to MySQL server during query]…
    and
    WordPress database error: [MySQL server has gone away]…
    and
    Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at…
    I hope this helps - I cant activate at this point.

  59. rivermaya
    September 27th, 2007 at 5:58 pm #

    Hi,
    why always stating this “Database files could not be backed up. Failed at Step 2.”
    how to fix it ? thanks

  60. Martin
    October 3rd, 2007 at 11:06 am #

    how do we delete the wpau-backup folder? i am unable to do so via ftp

  61. Anabelle
    October 4th, 2007 at 9:06 pm #

    THANK YoU!!! I run about 18 Wordpress blogs and most of them are out of date (off course) but only until tomorrow thanks to your great plugin!!!

    GREAT GREAT!!! I love you already!

  62. Uzair
    October 8th, 2007 at 9:19 pm #

    This is the best plugin i have ever seen

  63. Michael
    October 9th, 2007 at 6:14 pm #

    I have three WordPress blogs on my domain, can I set up a test blog as a fourth site to test this plugin without affecting the other three?

  64. keith
    October 10th, 2007 at 8:05 am #

    glad you liked it Uzair.

  65. Mark
    October 11th, 2007 at 5:57 am #

    Hi, love the plugin, although I’ve had a couple of problems running it. I keep getting messages like the following about ‘allowed memory size’:Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 46080 bytes) in wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 255Got variations of that when I tried the step-by-step update. Then tried automatic and that worked, but when I try to run the clean-up step I get the above message and it’s preventing my admin pages loading below the header.Any suggestions?Thanks.

  66. Mark
    October 11th, 2007 at 6:03 am #

    Whoops - I left my full path in my last post! Would you mind removing or replacing it before approving? Many thanks!
    Mark

  67. Ernesto Gluecksmann
    October 17th, 2007 at 9:00 am #

    WordPress is the correct trademark… funny however, that the WordPress program itself natively installs itself in a /wordpress/ directory and not /WordPress/ which it could have easily done.

    WP, wordpress, Wordpress, are fine. Yes, they may run a foul by the more persnickety types, but they’re all pretty common usage.

    For example, it’s called a “BlackBerry”, technically. However, most people commonly use “Blackberry” and even there, if you’re referring to the platform, you should probably be using “Research In Motion”, but if you use that, you’re likely to lose most non-tech types (most business users of their beloved “BBs”) because they mostly think of them as simply, Blackberries (or is it BlackBerrys? #^@$). But I digress…

    Let us not forget that these funky trademarks like WordPress are not exactly proper nouns.. anyway. So if someone’s “mistakenly” uses Wordpress instead of the trademark, you have to give some leeway. And most certainly, I’m not fan of being influenced by anyone’s marketing department… with the exception of WordPress, because they’re the greatest blogging software in the world and I don’t think they have a marketing department. WordPress it is.

  68. db
    October 18th, 2007 at 4:29 am #

    Thanks for the plug-in. I know Wordpress says its easy but I never seem to get the upgrades done right.

  69. Don
    October 18th, 2007 at 2:18 pm #

    This plugin does NOT work with WordPress 1.5. It calls the function current_user_can() which wasn’t introduced until 2.x versions.

  70. Butler
    October 21st, 2007 at 6:26 pm #

    Before I try this out has anyone used this to upgrade to 2.3. I want to update so I can use the built in tag features.

  71. mike
    October 30th, 2007 at 12:05 am #

    Hi,
    Just want to say thanks for the wonderful plugin.i think it works with latest version of wordpress.I am going to install it and see.
    All the best.

  72. Grace
    November 5th, 2007 at 2:31 am #

    I have upgraded thanks to the plugin but right after, I could not get email notifications for new comments!!

    Anyone having the same problem?

  73. David Tan
    November 6th, 2007 at 7:28 am #

    Makes my post easier way to upgrade wordpress virtually useless :( Anyhow, nice plugin, I love it!

  74. MarcF.
    November 11th, 2007 at 11:03 pm #

    Works out fine for me , thanks for sharing this great plugin with us.

  75. Mark.
    November 11th, 2007 at 11:04 pm #

    thanks for this great plugin , works like a charm

  76. Will
    November 13th, 2007 at 5:18 pm #

    It does not appear the author of this plugin has responded to questions here in over two months, but I will try anyway.

    The plugin does not work for me because I have wordpress installed in its own directory. After starting the plugin in manual mode it tells me it has backed up the db successfully. But when I click to download the file, it can’t find it. Error message:

    “Nothing found for wpau-backup Wpau-db-backupAHFsdca.zip”

    I did use ftp to download it manually. It was there, just not where the plugin was looking for it.

    Because of this I did not continue the backup procedure thinking that there would be further similar errors in the process.

    What do you suggest?

    Thanks!

  77. David
    November 14th, 2007 at 9:47 pm #

    Hi there

    I ran the upgrade script a first time, but ran into trouble with, I think, the FTP instructions because I have Wordpress’ index.php file in /public_html, not /public_html/wp where the rest of Wordpress is installed.

    So I moved index.php from /public_html to /public_html/wp and edited it accordingly (i.e. changing require(’./wp/wp-blog-header.php’); to require(’./wp-blog-header.php’); with the plan to simply move it back once the upgrade was completed.

    So I ran the upgrade script a second time, and things went smoothly.

    But then I got to the part of the upgrade that says Congratulations!!! All the files have been upgraded to the latest version. Please CLICK HERE TO COMPLETE THE FINAL STEP (opens in new window and will show you a upgrade link only if database has to be upgraded) and come back here to reactivate your plugins.

    So I clicked the COMPLETE THE FINAL STEP link and was served up Wordpress’ 404 error with this code at the top:

    WordPress database error: [Table 'stereo_wordpress.wp_terms' doesn't exist]
    SELECT t.*, tt.* FROM wp_terms AS t INNER JOIN wp_term_taxonomy AS tt ON t.term_id = tt.term_id WHERE tt.taxonomy IN (’category’) AND t.slug = ‘upgradephp’ ORDER BY t.name ASC

    WordPress database error: [Table 'stereo_wordpress.wp_terms' doesn't exist]
    SELECT t.*, tt.* FROM wp_terms AS t INNER JOIN wp_term_taxonomy AS tt ON t.term_id = tt.term_id WHERE tt.taxonomy IN (’category’) AND t.slug = ‘upgradephp’ ORDER BY t.name ASC

    WordPress database error: [Table 'stereo_wordpress.wp_term_relationships' doesn't exist]
    SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp_posts.* FROM wp_posts INNER JOIN wp_term_relationships ON (wp_posts.ID = wp_term_relationships.object_id) INNER JOIN wp_term_taxonomy ON (wp_term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id = wp_term_taxonomy.term_taxonomy_id) WHERE 1=1 AND wp_term_taxonomy.taxonomy = ‘category’ AND wp_term_taxonomy.term_id IN (’0′) AND post_type = ‘post’ AND (post_status = ‘publish’ OR post_status = ‘future’ OR post_status = ‘draft’ OR post_status = ‘pending’ OR post_status = ‘private’) GROUP BY wp_posts.ID ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 0, 10

    I’ve searched far and wide, but cannot find a solution.

    Does this have something to do with the switch from categories to tags? If so, how do I resolve?

    Meanwhile, when I try to access the WP admin page, I get this:

    Warning: main(./wp/wp-blog-header.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/stereo/public_html/wp/wp-admin/index.php on line 4

    Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘./wp/wp-blog-header.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/stereo/public_html/wp/wp-admin/index.php on line 4

    I’m assuming that’s because I changed index.php around, but can’t be sure yet.

    Immediate assistance would be much appreciated.

  78. Andrius
    December 8th, 2007 at 7:48 pm #

    Thanks a lot for this plugin :P i will be using it in my page (www.tupalm.net), it is one of the most useful plugins I’ve found. Keep going ;) and if you want to read my page :P you will need to use Google Translate >__< because it is in spanish.

    THANKS, KEEP GOING.

  79. Tadd
    December 10th, 2007 at 12:04 pm #

    This is probably one of the BEST plugins I’ve used. It’s great. A wonder! Well done!

  80. Anna
    December 10th, 2007 at 12:57 pm #

    Hi. I can’t even get to stage 1 because the system won’t take my credentials. I use by user name, my password just like on my ftp server, my ftp host name is my name of the blog (do I need to use ftp b/f the name-tried this too.) As for my worpress docs it seems that they are under /html When the ftp first comes up database, logs, etc are there. I assume that is not wordpress docs. In the html section is htaccess so I thought this is where the wordpress docs are. What am I doing wrong. My server has a linux system and is using apache too. Help! anna http://www.green-talk.com

  81. Roger Knight
    December 10th, 2007 at 5:50 pm #

    Astonishingly easy. I have been putting off the upgrade to 2.3.1 as it felt too scary to attempt. Found out about this plugin and took courage in both hands and did the upgrade. It was quick, easy, straightforward and it worked without a hitch. Thank you.

  82. Anna Hackman
    December 14th, 2007 at 1:57 am #

    Keith-I realized what is the problem. The little boxes to put in your information are really tiny in my install. In addition, it will only let me put 3 digits of my password when my password is at least 9 digits long. did I get a corrupt install. Does anyone have very small boxes to include their ftp info in? anna http://www.green-talk.com

  83. Will
    December 14th, 2007 at 6:22 pm #

    Anna - I don’t know specifically about your display problem, but could you change your password to 3 digits just for the upgrade process, then change it back? I don’t know if 3 is too short to be allowed, but you could try.

    I don’t think this plugin is supported any longer. The author has not been here in this comment thread since early September. I hope he is OK, but that is an occasional problem with the internet. If something happens to a person with a presence on the web, they often just disappear without a trace, leaving their fans to wonder what happened.

    This plugin seems to be a miracle for the majority of people, but some of can’t use it without major errors. I don’t think anyone has ever uncovered the source of those errors.

  84. Anna
    December 14th, 2007 at 10:14 pm #

    Hi Will-the plug-in does not work in my IE 7 but does in firefox. However, I can’t get past the maintenance intializing part. It fails to initialize the maintenance program. I don’t know how to work around this.

    I did see an earlier comment from an author that he too had the same problem and moved his index.php into his root wp files. I noticed that my index,php file is in 2 different places. One is in root file and a different index.php is where the wp/content, etc files are. Could this be the problem. Plus when the plug-in backs up, the index.php file is blank inside.

    Any suggestion anyone?

    PS Keith, are you okay? You are usually pretty responsive and I am just a little concerned. Even if you don’t have time to help us, can you at least tell you are okay and busy? anna http://www.green-talk.com

  85. Rivermaya
    December 15th, 2007 at 8:34 am #

    If Keith not here, who’s moderate these comments ? :)

  86. Keith Dsouza
    December 15th, 2007 at 1:25 pm #

    Hey people I am here and alive and doing good too. The problem is that I have hit a block with the issue Anna has and have been quite busy to really sit and look at it. But nevertheless I will be definitely solving this issue as many users are facing it.

  87. Will
    December 16th, 2007 at 6:00 pm #

    Well that is great that Keith is alive and well! I don’t know about Anna’s display issue, but the problem I have is the one that Keith posted about in another thread on this plugin. He had acknowledged that the plugin crashes on a certain number of installations, but there has been no conclusion why this is. I can’t find that post now, but if I do, I’ll link to it here. hopefully it will eventually get resolved. This plugin is so highly praised by those who it works for, the rest of us are really jealous!

  88. John
    December 24th, 2007 at 6:43 pm #

    Nice, it worked with no problems. Thanks so much.

  89. Anna
    December 25th, 2007 at 12:42 pm #

    Hi everyone. Happy holidays. I figured out what was the problem with my site being unable to get past the maintenance mode. I had to get my server to give me permission. I talked to my host (aiso.net-who is the best and solar too!) and he did something and voila, it worked like a dream!

    One thing I want to warn everyone about is you lose alot of your incoming links because WP changed the way it brings in links. All your links from technorati disappear and you have to get a plug-in to bring them back in. So, don’t panic when you don’t see the links.

    This is an amazing plug-in, Keith!

  90. colbert
    December 30th, 2007 at 3:05 am #

    I just upgraded to WP 2.3.2 - works like a charm. Thanks!

  91. Manu
    January 1st, 2008 at 1:32 pm #

    I’ve tried upgrading my WordPress installation with almost all previous versions of WPAU, but have not succeeded. After specifying my FTP details, clicking “Let’s Go” a;; I get is thew WordPress dashboard followed by a blank page.

    To fix this, I’ve tried different browsers, disabling all extension, and even trying out the upgarde from some other compute,m but it just desn’t work.

    Everybody seems to be having no problems using it, so surely the problem is at my end. Would really appreciate any help.

  92. Tish
    January 1st, 2008 at 8:09 pm #

    Wow. That was incredibly easy. Thank you!

  93. Geoff
    January 3rd, 2008 at 8:40 am #

    Many thanks for excellent plugin - worked well on first three sites I look after Some confusion at end when reinstalling plugins and updating database. But nothing serious

  94. Will
    January 4th, 2008 at 6:37 pm #

    Manu - Don’t feel lonely. The plugin does not work for some of us. I have never been able to figure out why in my case, although I am pretty sure it is related to having WordPress installed in its own subdirectory off root. I have communicated with several others with the same kind of install where it does not work. We are in the minority, though. The author of the plugin tried to track down the problem several months ago, but was not successful. So for now at least we can do it the manual way even if it is a pain in the#&*@!

  95. Ken
    January 18th, 2008 at 1:45 am #

    Hi, I tried to use it to upgrade my wordpress but it has this error:

    “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.”

    Therefore the process could not complete near the “Maintenance mode” stage.
    Based on the comments, it proved to be a great help to many bloggers but unfortunately not me.

    Thanks a lot for this great plugin though.
    Ken

  96. Bong (JB)
    January 21st, 2008 at 1:24 am #

    I was just about to upgrade to 2.3.2 when it struck me that somebody must’ve wrote a plugin on it. So here I am. Thanks.

  97. fra
    January 21st, 2008 at 7:52 am #

    i wanted to thank you for great job i am using it and i am very happy with it but my question is…are you going to leave us by ourself? I mean are you going to support your plugin with other versions or not?
    i hope you do!

  98. fra
    January 21st, 2008 at 7:53 am #

    I said so because the next wordpress release namely 2.5 is round the corner…

  99. Will
    January 23rd, 2008 at 2:16 pm #

    @fra: Keith did pop in on Dec 15th after an absense since mid September, to say he was alive and well, just busy with other things.

    There is an increasing number of people who can’t use the plugin because the process fails along the way. Keith has been unable to fix the issues and the plugin does seem to work for most people. So I think we are stuck with what we have.

    Remember that WordPress plugins are not a profit center for the authors. Generally they write them because they enjoy doing it or needed some functionality for themselves that was not already in place. They are then made available to the rest of us to try and use. So we really can’t complain if a plugin does not work for all of us or if it is not readily supported.

    Having said that, I stick around this thread because I hope that eventually a fix or new version will come around that enables me to use it. Upgrading WP is an incredible pain in the **&&% the manual way.

    The developers of WP really need to make upgrading smooth and easy. But they seem to think things are fine the way they are. Complaints in the WP support forums about the difficult upgrade process are generally met with the suggestion that if you can’t do it quickly the manual “Codex” way you are technically hopeless and belong on WordPress . com.

  100. Keith Dsouza
    January 23rd, 2008 at 4:40 pm #

    Hi All,

    Important Message for those whom WPAU is not working, this is a workaround for those users for whom the plugin does not put the site into maintenance mode.

    Try changing all folder permissions to 777 and then running the plugin, once that is done go back and change the file permission to 644.

    That’s it I have emailed this solution to many users and it has worked from them.

    Keith

  101. Hendra
    January 24th, 2008 at 8:45 pm #

    Great plugins!! installed into my blog yesterday, and everything’s works well and smooooooth. Now i don’t need to hassle about this,like will said, pain in the @$$ upgrade things anymore :D

    I’ll promote this to everyone i know. even to my hosting admin!!

    Thanks a ton Keith!

  102. Dreamweaver, Flash & Photoshop Tutorial
    January 25th, 2008 at 11:44 pm #

    Yes, this is totally awesome plugin! this help me a lot and really save my time for upgrading my wordpress.

    thanks!

  103. Dhruva Sagar
    January 30th, 2008 at 6:18 am #

    Hey this is indeed a cool plugin, i’ve even shared some of my views on my blog about your plugin.

    Hey btw, what plugin are you using for your comments? This is really nice representation of plugins.

  104. Anand
    January 31st, 2008 at 12:25 pm #

    Hi Keith

    could you help me with this problem. I get this error during the backup process:

    Warning: copy(/home/techcrun/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/temp-index.php) [function.copy]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/techcrun/public_html/wp-content/plugins/WAPU/wpau_upgrade.class.php on line 323

    I presume it to be because the folder name is WAPU and not wordpress-automatic-upgrade, but not sure where to make the change. Can you suggest what I should do?

    Thanks

  105. raffyman
    February 4th, 2008 at 5:51 pm #

    I wonder how FFS nobody has registered the fact, that this plugin doesn’t put the site back from maintenance mode to production mode.

    Now I have my test site (thanks God I was cautious enough not to put it on my production site!) displaying some nice:

    “The Site is currently undergoing maintenance, Sorry for the inconvinience
    Wordpress Automatic Upgrade Plugin provided by Techie Buzz.”

    Any way to get rid of this?

  106. Muzica Populara
    February 5th, 2008 at 7:56 am #

    thank you for your advices, i’m a blogging novice and i love to learn new things about wordpress</