Urgent WordPress Automatic Upgrade Update
Written on Saturday, 29th March 2008 . Permalink Jump to Comments
Tags: WordPress 2.5, WordPress Automatic Upgrade, WPAU
To all those who are using WordPress Automatic Upgrade and may have upgraded to WordPress 2.5 there is a bug which was reported earlier which breaks automatic plugin updates which is a feature in WordPress 2.5.
This feature breaks because of a library we used to handle zip files which is also used by the plugin updater. Since the plugin updater does not need to check if the class in question has already been instantiated I have changed the code in the plugin to ensure that the PclZip library is not loaded while updating a plugin.
Anyway for those who do want to continue using WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin please update to the latest version first or else if you are already using WordPress 2.5 first deactivate the plugin and then update and activate it.
I take immense pleasure in saying this too that WPAU has reached version 1.0 and actively supports upgrading from WordPress 2.5 to any new version that may be released.
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Just for clarification purposes. I am still on WP 2.3.3, running WPAU 0.8
Can I run WPAU 0.8 to upgrade to WP 2.5 without breaking anything (except for some other plugins, maybe)?
Mark yes you can upgrade the version from 2.3.3 to 2.5 without issues, the issues only crop up after you upgrade to 2.5 so whichever way you go upgrade and then run the automatic upgrade
What time was this post posted, as I just updated the WP Automatic Upgrade plugin with a new download. The Zip file is stamped with the time Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:52:09. Is that the newest version?
DT Yes that is the newest version which I released today.
i installed the plugin for the first time today. how will i know when the update takes place?
Thanks for the quick fix. However, there is a problem with reactivating the plugins. After upgrading the database, clicking on the next step link takes you to the first page of WPAU Manage screen. I had to go and manually reactivate the plugins. Based on twitter, few other people have also faced that issue.
Hi, Keith. I’am on WP 2.3.2, Should I first update to 2.3.3 and then to 2.5 or updating directly to 2.5 would cause any problem.
In case any plugin presently active under 2.3.2 doesnot work on 2.5, would it crash the WP installation/upgradation or would the plugin be automatically be disabled by 2.5 Causing no problem.
Same here, Patrix. The upgrade is going very smoothly for all of my blogs, but each time it fails to re-activate the plugins. Not a huge issue, but one that should be noted. Otherwise, I’m loving the smooth upgrade process.
I’m using WP 2.3.2 and when I try to activate this plugin I get “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.” Any suggestions? Thanks.
In case it helps, I just manually upgraded to WP 2.5 and when I click ‘Activate’ for this plugin now I get this:
I too have this same problem. Any word on a fix?
I finally figured this one out.
This error message appears on servers with short tags disabled. I went through the wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php file and found three places where tags needed to be replaced:
line 470: <?= => <?php echoline 514: <? => <?phpline 1027: <? => <?phpHope this helps.
You star! Thanks so much for that. Now I’m ready for the next upgrade…
Hi, Thanks for fixing that conflict so quickly. I am still however not getting my plugins re-enabled after doing the automatic upgrade.
I get a message asking if I’m sure I want to. I click on yes, but my plugins are not re-enabled. I’ve upgraded several blogs and the same thing happens to each one. Going from 2.3.3 to 2.5.
Even with out that I am still saving time with your plugin.
thank you so much for the fast update
love this plugin!
Hi,
I’m getting this:
TASK OUTPUT
Oops we cannot run the WordPress Automatic Update on your site. We are currently trying to fix issues for systems like yours and will release a new version shortly.
After running v1.0
Wordpres.org says that WPAU requires WordPress Version: 1.5 or higher but it not works for WP 1.5.2, it reports an error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function current_user_can() in /home/.carrie/ksensei/ksensei.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php on line 626
current_user_can it is not implemented in this version, isn’t it?
I upgraded to version 1.0 of this plugin, but I still have same problem as with the old version - all is fine up to the FILES BACKUP. But when I continue to the DATABASE BACK UP, everything stops there, I get blank screen, no download prompt message nothing … what may be the problem ?
Is this version working with 2.2? I am trying to use it but the upgrade page gives no links to continue the process and no errors either
I have the following problem…..I can’t connect to mi ftp with your plugin. It shows this message:
Staring FTP client class without PORT mode support UMASK 022 Transfer type: auto ASCII Timeout 30 Passive mode on Host “ftp.webcindario.com(89.17.220.55):21″ Local OS : UNIX Creating socket _connect: socket connect failed ( ()) Error : Cannot connect to remote host “ftp.webcindario.com :21″
I put the data in the form correctly
Upgrade from 2.3.3 to 2.5 worked without a glitch for me.
Thanks for a great plugin!
Howdy…
Even using the new WPAU v 1.1, I get the following message:
“Oops!!!!! We are unable to connect to the ftp site with the data your provided, could you cross check and give us the data again”
I’m 99.9% sure I’m entering the correct info, even by going so far as copying and pasting from my FTP program, Fetch…
Trying to upgrade from 2.3.3 to 2.5…
HELP!!!!
I am still using Wordpress 2.3.1, can i upgrade it to 2.5 directly? Or i need to 2.3.3 first? Thanks.
ok so I updated using WPAU before seeing this info..and like the others I got the DB issue…now the WP is upgraded to 2.5 but I dont see any of my menus at all. I went into the DB using phpmyadmin and how do I activate the plug-ins manually..they are working on the site (like mygallery works fine) but the plugins tab is gone..do I change the 1 to a 0 in the wpau_active_plugins_info table?? please help
Mitch
Howdy…
Even using the new WPAU v 1.1, I get the following message:
“Oops!!!!! We are unable to connect to the ftp site with the data your provided, could you cross check and give us the data again”
I’m 99.9% sure I’m entering the correct info, even by going so far as copying and pasting from my FTP program, Fetch…
Trying to upgrade from 2.3.3 to 2.5, using Network Solutions as my host…
HELP!!!!
Yes I also having same problem like this (wrong ftp data but I’m very sure I filled up the correct data).
I realized that the problem is only happened at my blog which is installed at root. Others blog I installed at subdomain no problem with it. Only cannot automatically re-activate the plugin issue.
This is a really useful plugin, especially for those of us who are not comfortable rummaging around in the innards of a wp installation.
However, this time (upgrading to 2.5) I can’t get it to work. I get the message:
Which I do. Click the link, wait while the wheel spins — and then the very same message pops up again.
Any thoughts? Hints? And thanks again.
I thought I had posted this question already, but it seems to have disappeared.
When I go to the automatic upgrade page, I get the message that the last installation needs to be cleaned up. So I click that button and watch the wheel spin. When it’s done, it takes me right back to the same message — former installation needs to be cleaned up before you can proceed.
Is there a way around this? Any help much appreciated.
See my above post - I STILL cannot get this to work - PLEASE - ANYBODY!!!
Hi
just tried this and keep getting the following in the automatic process:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: add_filter() in /home/booksfor/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/default-filters.php on line 4
Restored the backup and tried doing it manually and got a page of error faults.
Any clues?
Is this plugin ready for WP 2.5.1 yet?
I’ve just updated several blogs from 2.3.3 to 2.5.1 using this plugin. All completed in record time. Only issue was not reactivating the plugins. But that’s only takes a few extra clicks on the plugin page (and also gave me the option to update some of those plugins whilst there. I will definitely be adding a recommendation to this Plugin on my Learn-how-2.net Wordpress “Getting Started” Blog.
Keith-I tried to update it to 2.5.1 and it is stuck in updating the database. All my plug-ins are gone including the comment features. I have looked all over your site and wordpress support to see what to do. Any suggestions? Anna
Is it really necessary？
Keith,
It has been a pleasure using this plugin. Thank you for it. I have used it successfully in all my installations except this one. Any pointers as to why this happens will be appreciated.
I recently upgraded WP from 2.3.3 to 2.5 and then migrated from Apache to litespeed based hosting (facilitated by my provider - Steadfast) The site works well, but for some reason I can’t upgrade to 2.5.1
I am using WPAU 1.1 and get the following message after the plugin starts putting the site in maintenance mode:
“Warning: copy(/hsphere/local/home/saplingindia/mahasldc.in/index.php.wpau.bak): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /hsphere/local/home/saplingindia/mahasldc.in/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_upgrade.class.php on line 321 We could not complete the upgrade please try again later, click here to check the logs.”
Any idea where I am going wrong?
Thanks a ton.