WordPress Automatic Upgrade 1.2 Release
Update Feb 19th 2009: If you are having issues with upgrading WordPress 2.7 and above, or if WPAU is not displaying a nag to upgrade, we have released a newer version, please read the release post for WordPress Automatic Upgrade 1.2.5.
Update: WordPress Automatic Upgrade is completely compatible with WordPress 2.6, so go ahead and upgrade now. Enjoy.
Update 1:49 AM EST: Released 1.2.0.1 to update user debug message to use forums instead of emailing me.
Update 2:36 AM EST: Released 1.2.0.2 to fix a issue with Snoopy being instantiated twice on home page loads.
Update 2:46 AM EST: All download links for WPAU lead to the latest release, if you are a regular user you will receive a push update to upgrade the plugin to WordPress 1.2.0.2, please do that it’s mandatory.
Update Friday, July 18 8:30 PM EST: Pushed a new release 1.2.1 which allows users to skip files and database backup steps, this feature was requested by several users.
Update August 21st, 2008: Pushed a new released 1.2.2 to properly fix bugs, also added a new nag to the dashboard when files from old upgrade are not cleared out.
Matt really put me in a fix by releasing WordPress 2.6 almost a month ahead of the scheduled date, this definitely put several of my plans down the drain. That said this version upgrade is just a push release to fix critical bugs that users have been complaining about.
There will be a major release in the next week or two that will bring in a much needed interface changes I have been working on. That said here is a major revision that fixes several bugs and also improves in some areas.
WordPress Automatic Upgrade Consists of quite a few fixes as listed below:
- Fixed a major issue where plugins could not be activated, due to WP installation logging users out after upgrades.
- Fixed a issue where users were not being able to download backup files when WordPress URL and Blog URL were different.
- WordPress Automatic Upgrade will only run if your WordPress is out of date.
- WPAU now uses Snoopy to download files rather than using regular PHP methods.
- Added a WPAU Nag where users will see a message to start automatic upgrade if a new version is available.
- Automatic Upgrade option will only be visible to Administrators.
- Disabled Automated Mode.
- Few other minor changes.
Unfortunately this version does not include fixes where WordPress Automatic Upgrade fails while putting the site into maintenance mode. I have posted a little workaround on the forum for such situations, allowing users to still use WPAU.
I request all the users of WPAU to use the support forum to post your bugs and feature requests, as it’s really painful for me to sift through 100s of mails and comments to find your bug.
Note: While re-activating plugins WordPress may log you out, but do not worry WPAU will take care of the logout and finish the upgrade like normal once you login, just remember to stay in the same browser instance you started the upgrade in.
The automated mode option has been disabled since I am working on a new interface which is much more interactive and worthwhile, so I am phasing out Automatic mode with this release. If anyone of you wants the automatic mode to still work contact me and I will send you the version with automatic mode enabled.
Well like I said there are several features I am leaving out of this release and will bundle it with the WordPress Automatic Upgrade 1.3 which I am working on. Here are a list of features that will be included in WordPress Automatic Upgrade 1.3.
- A better user interface including verbose output where users will see what’s being done in real time.
- Ability to skip certain tasks or run tasks on demand, so users can run file backups, database backups etc selectively.
- Ability for users to choose the language of WordPress they want to download from.
- Complete Internationalization support.
- Cleanup of code to make WPAU more faster.
Also don’t forget to use the Support forum for WordPress Automatic Upgrade to send me your bugs and queries.
I have already pushed the latest release through WordPress Extend SVN Repository, so old users should see a notice to upgrade the plugin.
Download WordPress Automatic Upgrade 1.2 downloaded times
Nirmal
July 15th, 2008 at 9:09 pm #
This is by far the most amazing plugins I have used for WP. I upgraded to 2.6 with the old version, no issues.
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Keith Dsouza Reply:
July 15th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Thanks for the kind words Nirmal
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DazzlinDonna
July 15th, 2008 at 9:34 pm #
Is it possible for a WP plugin developer to be my hero? Well, you are. You are, imo, a genius, and the WPAU plugin has got to be THE BEST plugin ever. It totally rocks, and WP should purchase it from you for a few million dollars. I tell EVERYONE who uses WP about the plugin, because it is just that good. I upgraded 6 blogs last night without even breaking a sweat, all thanks to your plugin – and that’s WITHOUT your update. Now, with this update, and with the upcoming changes, well…you may be elevated beyond hero status.
Seriously…you rock. Thanks for making this plugin.
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Keith Dsouza Reply:
July 15th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Hi Donna,
Thanks for the appreciation, it really makes me feel proud. It gives me the encouragement to do more things that will help people without having to expect something in return just because of such appreciations
.
Well that said there are several things in the pipeline and you will definitely see more from me.
Keith
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OBELIKS
July 16th, 2008 at 1:09 am #
Well I have a problem with it:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class snoopy in E:\inetpub\vhosts\elektrix.si\httpdocs\wordpress\wp-includes\class-snoopy.php on line 47
Any ideas?
Wordpress 2.6
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Keith Dsouza Reply:
July 16th, 2008 at 1:39 am
Thanks OBELIKS, the issue has been fixed download using the same link or wait for visit WordPress plugin page to automatically upgrade.
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Sujit
July 16th, 2008 at 4:38 am #
Such a great plugin.Hats Off.I just used it today to upgrade to 2.6.No problem! step by step guide.I also recommended in my blog to use this plugin.
Thankx to the creator.
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Alan
July 16th, 2008 at 10:17 am #
Brilliant plugin, used the old version to upgrade a site to 2.6 and didn’t have any problems. Glad to know that you released an updated version for 2.6
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nyunyu
July 16th, 2008 at 10:53 am #
I am still using WP 2.5.1. Can I just update WPAU to the latest version and then let it upgrade my blog? Will it be compatible with WP2.5.1?
Btw, I’m using this plugin for my other blog and I’m very sure to upgrade it now.
Thanks keith.
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Bytetips
July 16th, 2008 at 11:44 am #
Last time i used this i had some problem. It didn’t activated any plugin last time..
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Ajay
July 16th, 2008 at 1:31 pm #
Any reason why you disabled the automatic mode. It was really convenient. This step by step mode is painful
Can we have that back.
I’m running into the Site Maintenance error. I have phpsuexec installed on my server, so I don’t need to set permissions.
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Rattling the Kettle
July 16th, 2008 at 5:09 pm #
Thank you so much for this terrific plugin. I just used it to upgrade to WP 2.6. With your plugin, I successfully upgraded without a hitch in under one minute. Without your plugin, upgrading to 2.5 took me over an hour, I broke my blog in the process, and my wife had to restrain me from throwing my laptop through the television set.
In short, your plugin saved my marriage.
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IHB
July 16th, 2008 at 8:41 pm #
Can I use this to go from WP 2.3.2 to the current version? This thing looks cool!!
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Leo
July 17th, 2008 at 12:57 am #
Hi,
Thanks for this plugin. It’s really convenient for those who are not so familiar with upgrading manually. And it’s also great to know internationalization support will be added.
Thanks again!
Regards
Leo
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IHB
July 17th, 2008 at 6:48 am #
Can you use this to upgrade from a 2.3 version up to the latest version in one step?
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nashid
July 17th, 2008 at 8:39 am #
Thanks for this plugin. It worked flawlessly doing my upgrade.
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nashid
July 17th, 2008 at 8:41 am #
Great plugin. Worked flawlessly.
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web about money
July 17th, 2008 at 9:20 am #
very good plugin!
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Thomas
July 17th, 2008 at 1:30 pm #
Not working — whatever, fine, I’ll update manually. But I can’t delete the directory either. In 2 attempts, uploading didn’t just add the intended 18 files but also
.pureftpd-upload.487f8d05.15.2895.17e1d00c one time, and
.pureftpd-upload.487f8ae3.15.646e.85cdefcd the next.
When I try to delete the directory, I can’t because of these 2 files. When I try to delete the 2 files, I get an error message like:
ERROR 550 Prohibited filename: pureftpd-upload.487f8d05.15.2895.17e1d00c : /public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/.pureftpd-upload.487f8d05.15.2895.17e1d00c
They are 0 0 0 0 files, no read write execute permissions. When I try to change those permissions, I’m not allowed to do that either.
How can I eliminate these files and this directory?
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nyunyu Reply:
July 19th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Did your uploads stopped half way? The file is actually a temp file created when you have problem with your uploads.
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Zeninfocus
July 20th, 2008 at 6:54 am #
Thanks! This plugin will be very handy for upgrading! Cheers
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Christina Warren
July 20th, 2008 at 12:21 pm #
Even though I’ve gone ahead and transitioned my main WP-install to SVN for even easier updates, I just wanted to thank you and give you kudos for all the hard work you’ve done with this plugin. I often use it for my MAMP installs and recommend it to people who are less tech savvy and fear upgrades.
I never had a problem upgrading the standard way, but the plugin just made it THAT much easier (and as I said, this is a godsend for people who either can’t be bothered doing all the usual stuff or are truly afraid of mucking something up).
This is the type of thing that should absolutely be included in default WP-installs (it can be disabled for users who want control).
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Dave Kaufman - Techlife
July 21st, 2008 at 10:01 am #
During the upgrade of the plugin (which still updated to WP2.6 just fine) I got the following:
———————
Upgrade Plugin
Downloading update from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.1.2.1.zip
Unpacking the update
Deactivating the plugin
Removing the old version of the plugin
Could not remove the old plugin
Installation Failed
————————
Not sure why? I just manually upgraded, but thought you should know.
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Kurt
July 21st, 2008 at 10:55 am #
Hi Keith,
Does this work if I have a very old version fo wordpress to upgrade from, ie v2.0.3?
I heard that the way wordpress interfaces with the SQL database has changed, and thus will have a problem if I upgrade directly from the older version to the new version?
Thanks
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Kriszta
July 22nd, 2008 at 8:10 am #
I updated 2 blogs, worked beautifully!
Then with the 3rd one I ran into this (after clicking “Get the Latest Version from wordpress.org”):
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 500001 bytes) in /home/hunrealc/public_html/realestate/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/lib/snoopy.class.php on line 900
Any ideas?
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Jane
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:46 pm #
I upgraded to 2.6 without issues. Awesome plug in! I donated for this one. It saved me time and anxiety.
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Steve
July 24th, 2008 at 8:22 am #
For some reason, the Automatic Update plug in says everything was updated successfully, but my site still says it is 2.5.1? Anyone else have this issue?
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H. J. Brubaker
July 24th, 2008 at 9:20 am #
I have to echo so many in saying what a great plugin this is. I’ve upgraded a few of ours but on one that’s going from 2.21 to the latest I get “Oops sorry you are not authorized to do this” on the first step after it does the check and I believe it after clicking the “Let’s Go” box. Any ideas?
Thanks
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Jacob Burke
July 24th, 2008 at 6:57 pm #
I have tried to activate the plugin on my WordPress installation, but I am getting an Error 500 – Internal server error. Any thoughts on why this could be happening? Thanks!
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Joe
July 25th, 2008 at 12:41 am #
I activated and started the Updater. Everything was going just fine until I got kicked out of the system and forced to Login again. I can’t login at all – I even reset my password and I’m still blocked.
Help!
My site is still online and everything appears to be working fine, but I can’t get in…
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Michael Reply:
August 27th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Joe,
I’m having the same problem. It doesn’t look like anyone responded to your question. Have you been able to log back in? If so, how did you do it?
Michael
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aperture physics
July 25th, 2008 at 9:56 am #
This is a nice plugin
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Soverato News
July 26th, 2008 at 6:55 am #
Keith Dsouza,
your plugin work very well on the site i tested it, only one problem comes out after upgrading i have to restore file and folder permission to come out of a server 500 error, maybe plugin have to read file and folder permission before upgrading and set it as he found it.
ciao
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Maciej Miasik
July 29th, 2008 at 4:26 pm #
I got the following error after installing the plugin and activating it:
WordPress database error: [Table 'miasik.wpau_upgrade_log' doesn't exist]
SELECT count(*) as counter from wpau_upgrade_log
It is displayed in Administration/Automatic Upgrade tab.
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Jean-Luc Benazet Reply:
August 4th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
I’m stuck in Maintenance mode ! The update worked fine and finished fine…
Still my blog keeps saying:
The Site is currently undergoing maintenance, Sorry for the inconvinience
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade Plugin provided by Techie Buzz.
Any idea ?
Thanks
JL
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Mike
August 4th, 2008 at 1:57 pm #
I like this plugin a lot, but I have one bug to report. For some reason when I upgraded it set my character encoding to UTF-6 which caused my new posts to be truncated. Everything was fine once I changed to UTF-8. I’m not sure how or why this happend but I thought you should know.
Cheers
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Wade
August 5th, 2008 at 2:22 pm #
I updated and got this:
Warning: main(/home4/wadehodg/wadehodges-www/wp-load.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home4/wadehodg/wadehodges-www/wp-blog-header.php on line 12
Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/home4/wadehodg/wadehodges-www/wp-load.php’ (include_path=’./:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home4/wadehodg/wadehodges-www/wp-blog-header.php on line 12
Blog is down completely.
any ideas?
Thanks
Wade
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jonthedon
August 6th, 2008 at 11:57 am #
Help!
Tried running the plugin, which seemed to work, until I completed it. It hasn’t updated the site, and the main page is stuck in maintenance mode. Deleted index.php as instructed in the FAQ, and renamed index.php.wpau.bak file to index.php.
Now I get this:
Warning: main() [function.main]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 99 is not allowed to access ./wp-blog-header.php owned by uid 32251 in /home/jonwil50/public_html/index.php on line 4
Warning: main(./wp-blog-header.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/jonwil50/public_html/index.php on line 4
Warning: main() [function.main]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 99 is not allowed to access ./wp-blog-header.php owned by uid 32251 in /home/jonwil50/public_html/index.php on line 4
Warning: main(./wp-blog-header.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/jonwil50/public_html/index.php on line 4
Warning: main() [function.main]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 99 is not allowed to access ./wp-blog-header.php owned by uid 32251 in /home/jonwil50/public_html/index.php on line 4
Warning: main(./wp-blog-header.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/jonwil50/public_html/index.php on line 4
Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘./wp-blog-header.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/lib/php:/usr/lib/php’) in /home/jonwil50/public_html/index.php on line 4
Can anyone help? How do I restore the site?
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T Reply:
October 18th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
I’m experiencing the very same problem
Need help?
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Sid
August 6th, 2008 at 2:44 pm #
Thanks for plugin upgraded to 2.6 in 6-7 steps.. rock on..
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MZ
August 7th, 2008 at 6:06 pm #
I was disappointed to discover that after installing this plug-in, then trying the automatic upgrade, I could no longer login to my administrative panel — no matter what I tried. So after spending too much time to try to fix it, I just gave up and did a clean install — anyone had a similar problem? I’d be hesitant to install this plug-in again…hopefully future versions will not produce such an error.
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Kristina Brooke Reply:
August 29th, 2008 at 11:36 am
this plugin has broken two sites that i have tried to use it on. I am doing a clean install now.
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NeoSwf
August 11th, 2008 at 7:33 am #
Hey
First of all- Thanks for the plugin.
I installed version 1.2.1.
When i follow the step “Get the Latest Version from wordpress.org”, I get this error: “Warning: set_time_limit(): Cannot set time limit in safe mode in wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_upgrade.class.php on line 54 In hereFinished Unzipping In here”
What to do?
Thanks,
Shlomi.A.
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gowers
August 15th, 2008 at 3:17 am #
I like it! Thanks
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Dawn of Dawn's Recipes
August 15th, 2008 at 12:23 pm #
This is an amazing plugin! Thank you so much! One suggestion I have is to have it rebuild permalinks after upgrading. I have to do this manually after running the plugin for my site to work properly. It’s not a big deal since you’ve saved me so much time on the upgrade process, but I might as well make the suggestion. =)
Thanks again!
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Herman D. HugeLoad IV
August 16th, 2008 at 2:12 am #
In trying to run WPAU from WP-2.60 -> 2.61 I got this 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.”
CentOS: 5.02 64 bit
Plesk: 8.30
WPAU: 1.2.1
Some clarification on the above output would be greatly appreciated. It’s unclear to this writer exactly what problem WPAU is encountering.
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Terry Brown
August 16th, 2008 at 3:26 pm #
I’d just like to say thank you for the best plugin I have ever used with wordpress.
It is one of the most useful and easy to use piece of software I have seen and am happily recommending it to friends who use WP.
I’ve had no problems when using this on two different blogs, thank you again for an excellent tool for every WP user.
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Funny Pictures
August 16th, 2008 at 5:55 pm #
Just upgraded from 2.6 to 2.6.1 just fine.
Cheers
Tim
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djbaxter
August 17th, 2008 at 9:07 am #
This fails at trying to put the blog into maintenance mode. Yes, I’ve visted your forum and the “fix” you posted doesn’t work.
Why does the blog need to be in maintenance mode anyway? I’m the only author. If I’m upgrading, believe me I’m not creating new posts.
How about an option to skip maintenance mode and just perform the upgrade?
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Danny
August 18th, 2008 at 5:44 am #
Do you know why upgrading to WP 2.6.1 using Wordpress Automatic Upgrade 1.2, there’s such an error shown?
500 Server Error
A misconfiguration on the server caused a hiccup. Check the server logs, fix the problem, then try again.
URL: http://www.dannyimages.com/
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baron
August 21st, 2008 at 5:55 pm #
hi. Thanks for plugin
perfect.
Regards
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Doug Germann
August 23rd, 2008 at 12:37 pm #
Hi–
I really like your plugin. It has saved me much time.
There is one minor irritation: it never automatically upgrades itself. I cringe every time you have an update, because I know it will fail, then I will have to download, unzip, upload to my site, reactivate and check to see if everything is up to date.
Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?
:- Doug.
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Çim Çit
August 26th, 2008 at 2:09 am #
Thanks for this awesome plugin
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Ninja
August 27th, 2008 at 8:19 pm #
It’s not automatic anymore. It makes me do everything step by step.
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Cher
August 29th, 2008 at 3:41 am #
When I checked by blog, it is of 2.2 version. How could I directly upgrade it to the present version. Will there be any problem with the usage of plugin?
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Ralf Engel
September 1st, 2008 at 1:07 pm #
When I try to do the upgrade, the following error appears:
Fatal error: exec() [function.exec]: Command `ls -l /www/htdocs/ralfen/index.php |awk ‘{print $1}’` not found in ACL in /www/htdocs/ralfen/wp-content/plugins/wordpress_automatic_upgrade/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 99
I’ve googled for this issue, but haven’t been able to find any solutions.
Please help!
Thanks
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Faizan Dosani
September 4th, 2008 at 12:18 am #
best plugin ever used!
just click , click and finish!
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moyo
September 4th, 2008 at 12:56 am #
there is a problem with the plugin that shows some kind of scripting js or php….
any website with tje plugin add this to the link
http://www.urweb.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/js/wp-wpau.js.php
u’ll see
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moyo
September 4th, 2008 at 1:02 am #
there is a problem with the plugin that if u add an url pointing to wp-wpau.js file u’ll see js code
add this too ur url
http://www.urweb.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/js/wp-wpau.js.php..
i noticed that because the stast in my web are growing up and people is going directly to that url…. i dont see any problem because everything looks secured and they dont have access to any information of the db, but u should check that problem.
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Matt Schulte
September 4th, 2008 at 9:34 am #
I’m having trouble with the first step of the process. When I click the link to download the backup .zip file, I get nothing. It is as if the file is not being created properly.
I just updated the plugin to version 1.2.2, any ideas?
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rafa
September 4th, 2008 at 1:00 pm #
Hi again,
I’ve contacted my host with the “Fatal error: exec() [function.exec]:” error…
They’ve confiremd to me that my host has a protection which doesn’t allow for this function to be executed.
So i guess no way for me to use wordpress automatic update. I’ve looked around and found wordpress instant update. Installed it and tried it… it works flawlessly. The only thing I had to do is set file and folder permissions manually.
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TheYoungGUy
September 5th, 2008 at 2:32 am #
After installing the plugin I get a message that states “Your server is running in safe mode. WPAU cannot continue in safe mode. Please ask your system administrator to change the setting to disble running in safe mode”
What do I do?
-TheYoungGuy
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Ibnu Asad Reply:
September 9th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Ask your host to disable php safe mode for you.
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Gh. Alex
September 8th, 2008 at 4:08 pm #
WordPress 2.6.2 is out. Is it safe to update with your plugin? Thanks
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phototristan Reply:
September 8th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
It’s not even recognizing the 2.6.2 update for me.
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Chris Messina
September 8th, 2008 at 9:39 pm #
Any reason why 2.6.2 isn’t being detected by WPAU?
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/09/wordpress-262/
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Roy
September 10th, 2008 at 12:31 pm #
the wpau-backup issue
I am working to get my WP 2.6.1 to 2.6.2 upgraded. Damn, this has been a troublesome upgrade! First, I used your plugin, it deactivated AskApache Password Protect and I can’t get that one running anymore. The rest I did manually (other WP installations), but also there problems. Then when I was going through the server files with FTP, I saw that I DO have the wpau-backup folder (contrary to what I said on the WP forum). The worst thing is: no matter what I do, I can’t delete or rename that folder. File permissions are read 3x, writing (owner and world!!) and execute all again. The only thing I could change were those permissions, so I simply deny everything, no reading, writing or executing for anyone.
Still, a strange thing and in the light of the previous exploitation discussion, still not a good sign, right?
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Baron
September 10th, 2008 at 10:23 pm #
hi. thanks for plugin .Perfect but i need ur help. please, help me
How can I download full Backs up ? (ex : wp-content, themes,pictures…)
Best Regards
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Nick
September 11th, 2008 at 8:51 pm #
I’m having trouble with this plugin. I’m trying to upgrade from WordPress ver 1.5.2. When I enter Wordpress Automatic Upgrade, I get this message at the top:
WordPress database error: [Table 'spedge2.wpau_upgrade_log' doesn't exist]
SELECT count(*) as counter from wpau_upgrade_log
Then I start the upgrade and I get this message:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: current_user_can() in /raid/home/bucqui/spedge/spartanedge/blogs/spartanedge18/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php on line 860
ANY SUGGESTIONS? I’ve used your plugin on different blogs before and it’s been very helpful. I would greatly appreciate not having to go about the upgrade some other more complicated way. Thanks!
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Samuel Reply:
October 15th, 2008 at 10:12 am
I keep getting the same problem
Please Help!!!
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Navjot Singh
September 14th, 2008 at 7:41 am #
Pls upload latest version on your blog too. Latest version is 1.2.2 and your blog currently has 1.2.1 or either provide users the link to latest plugin release page i.e.: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/
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John J
September 17th, 2008 at 2:25 pm #
On my localhost where I run Xampp, I could easly upgrade from wp 2.0.11 to 2.6.2 whit the old version, but on my host, I could not. It gave me errors about it could not create a lot of things. I upgradet to the latest version of Atomatic upgrade, and my whole dashboard gets blank..
Any idea?
Best regards, John J
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Скачать Аниме
September 19th, 2008 at 5:57 pm #
Thank you for real good and usefull wp plugin.
This is da best plugin I’ve ever used! Just click the button and it’s done!
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Dennis
September 20th, 2008 at 4:05 am #
Hello,
does “WordPress Automatic Upgrade” work with all languages? For me: German? Or do I have an English version after upgrading with “WordPress Automatic Upgrade”?
Thanks for your support.
Dennis
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Frederik
September 21st, 2008 at 8:57 am #
Could u make a maintenance mode plugin?
\Frederik
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Honeul
September 21st, 2008 at 9:54 am #
Wow, this is so easy plugin. It really helped my sister’s site since she doesn’t have a cpanel for herself. She used to upgrade it manually, thanks for the plugin. Great work
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sarkidinle.biz
September 25th, 2008 at 4:05 pm #
great work! thanks!!
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matt wright
September 30th, 2008 at 3:16 am #
This is an awesome plugin.. Till today that is!
It went through the upgrade fine, and I am told to click on a link to complete the upgrade process, then the plugin will automatically update my plugins.
I click the link, and it tells me I have to login again. I enter my info, and it says the password is incorrect.
My blog is still online, but I cannot login to wp-admin anymore..
Can anyone please help??
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colinR
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:32 am #
Umm, anyone wanna jump in on this one?
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.
That’s not exactly helpful. It would be a lot more helpful if the plugin could run its own logs so that the site operator can get some clue about what “issues for systems like yours” actually are, and report back with definitive data.
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andy
October 23rd, 2008 at 4:05 pm #
What permission are required on what folders for this to work? I’m doing this manually, as my server does not have ftp (it has ssh).
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Bingu
October 24th, 2008 at 6:45 am #
Great plugin!
I have activated it on all my wordpress blog
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Mark Cahill
October 24th, 2008 at 10:42 am #
I updated to 2.6.3 today and noticed that the database backup step didn’t work. Not a big issue as I just did a regular db backup, but it might cause concern for the non-technical user.
The db backup step hung with a white screen. I attempted twice, then did my regular backup and skipped the step.
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Iyas
October 26th, 2008 at 2:18 am #
It seems that if your main page is different from where you install wordpress, the plugin cannot proceed the upgrade.
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HowToMakeMyBlog.com
October 27th, 2008 at 5:00 pm #
This is an excellent plugin, I’ve included it in my must-have maintenance Wordpress plugins list at:
http://www.howtomakemyblog.com/how-to-set-up-a-blog/must-have-wordpress-blog-maintenance-plugins/
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wiktor
October 28th, 2008 at 3:33 am #
I solved my problem! thanks
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Scott Kingsley Clark
October 28th, 2008 at 12:45 pm #
I very much enjoyed using this upgrade plugin, and am looking forward to new plugins by you!
With that said, 2.7 includes the Automatic Upgrade functionality in it’s core, so this plugin will become unnecessary. It was very useful while I needed it, but like I said, I can’t wait to see what you do next
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clayton
October 29th, 2008 at 11:29 pm #
I had same problem as user said before:
In trying to run WPAU from WP-2.60 -> 2.61 (mine is current version) I got this 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.”
Some clarification on the above output would be greatly appreciated. It’s unclear to this writer exactly what problem WPAU is encountering.
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Mark the Marketing Guy
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:08 pm #
This is the best plug-in I have been using it on all my sites since the beginning. I give it 10 out of 10 stars..
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Richard
November 4th, 2008 at 5:52 am #
Using the latest version and updating from 2.5.1 The upgrade was a partial success. The stage of reactivating plugins failed to happen. Upgrade success message was presented but with all plugins deactivated. I had to manually reactivate all plugins
Another question: does the plugin reinstall plugins with exactly the same settings? This is an important consideration as some pligin settings are lost with deactivation.
Thanks.
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Richard
November 4th, 2008 at 6:25 am #
Ok, some more feedback on the above: The problem was that I was asked to login again after the datbase upgrade. After this I was sent to an admin page that had a message ‘Are you sure you want to do this?’ A bit confusingas there was no precedant. What I should have done is ignore the admin page after login and returned to the original admin page. Here the next stage of reactivating plugins was still waiting for my prompt. And yes, it does keep all plugin settings, but I’m not sure how I got lost after upgrade admin login.
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TL
November 4th, 2008 at 8:26 am #
Absolutely the easiest route to upgrade your WordPress blog.
Thanks for your efforts.
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Nurul
November 8th, 2008 at 12:28 pm #
Hi,
I installed this plugin on my site few days back. Worked smoothly and i was able to upgrade wordpress.
However, since today, all of a sudden, it showed fatal errors. I was unable to view my site as well access my WP admin panel.
The error is this:
Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/home/sssmcom1/tmp) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/mobilemo/:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp) in /home/mobilemo/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php on line 119
Fatal error: session_start() [function.session-start]: Failed to initialize storage module: files (path: ) in /home/mobilemo/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php on line 119
I did not ever play with the codes of the plugin. To see that my data is still present, ultimately i had to delete the plugin using FTP (had no other choice).
But, now there is another problem, i still cannot view my site or access my dashboard since my theme also uses a session_start() function.
Pls, tell me what to do? My website is down due to this and this is certainly not good for it.
A reply and solution will be much appreciated.
Thanks
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Tweakwindows
November 8th, 2008 at 1:02 pm #
I will use this plugin while upgrading to 2.7 version.
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Magnus
November 9th, 2008 at 11:42 am #
AWESOME plugin!!!
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Wayne
November 12th, 2008 at 10:45 pm #
I’m running into the same error as Nick did, Fatal error: Call to undefined function: current_user_can() on line 860.
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phototristan
November 13th, 2008 at 2:15 pm #
Will this plugin work for upgrading from 2.6.3 to 2.7 when 2.7 is released?
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johny why
November 15th, 2008 at 12:04 pm #
does this have automatic rollback, after a complete upgrade? it should.
how about automatic rollback in case of an error? it ought to.
thanks
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1001Cures
November 16th, 2008 at 12:50 am #
What the best plugin..recommend to other.
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Matt
November 16th, 2008 at 10:36 pm #
Just want to say thanks for making this plugin. I’ll be trying it in the next couple of days.
Cheers.
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Matt
November 16th, 2008 at 11:16 pm #
I’ll be trying this out soon, see how it works. thanks for making it.
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Mik
November 19th, 2008 at 1:58 pm #
Great plugin use it every time an upgrade is ready. Will it alert and work when WordPress 2.7 is available?
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mopheat
November 25th, 2008 at 10:44 am #
Its Compatible with the version of how wordpruess?
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Jai
November 26th, 2008 at 7:07 am #
Buddy what should I say.. Wud thankin u be enuff… if i do that..
I don think so…. Wud donating u b enuff…. I don hv dah much money right now
All I can tell u is I am ur fan…
U noe y.. Since past two months I`ve been developin my website on my own.. So I have kinda got my account formatted 8-9 times from my host
When I was able to do a proper site for myself…. And had even done it… Wordpress guys released a new version 2.6.5 wid some security fix.. n it left me in a dilemma whether I shud upgrade or not.. coz i thought it wud ruin my site and i`ll hv to do it again….
But ur plugin came to me as a saviour…… And it did everythin so easily n so smoothly….. Friend may god bless u wid loads of more knowledge and happiness…
Thanks to u sooooooo sooooo much……
Hv a gr8 day dude…
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dimitri
November 30th, 2008 at 4:54 pm #
Hi Keith, what a time saver this plugin is when managing multiple blogs. Any thoughts about creating a version of the wordpress automatic upgrade plugin so people who run multiple blogs would be able to login to a primary account/server and update all their blogs from that one server even with wordpress running on other remote servers/db’s? Once i update one server I know i still need to login to a lot more and upgrade them all it would be great to have control of that from one place and see the status of each servers update being shown in real time with some ajax.
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Flyer
December 7th, 2008 at 9:17 pm #
This is a great plugin, have been using it on a number of blogs for a while. Simply awesome.
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Janet Martin
December 9th, 2008 at 1:33 pm #
Thanks – I love this plugin but for the 2.6 upgrade, it’s stopped working for me. I get the following error.
failed to open stream: Permission denied in /../wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_upgrade.class.php on line 359 We could not complete the upgrade please try again later, click here to check the logs.
Any tips? Thanks!
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becks
December 10th, 2008 at 10:38 pm #
Thanks for this plugin.
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Kari
December 10th, 2008 at 11:05 pm #
I wondered about the delay in Automatic Upgrade notifying me when there is a new version. It is usually several days after the new version is available before Automatic Upgrade gives me the option to upgrade. Is there anyways to ‘nudge it’ when I know a new release is out and it hasn’t identified it yet? Thank you so much for this wonderful plugin!
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HotForWords
December 10th, 2008 at 11:17 pm #
Curious if this works for going from 2.6.x to 2.7
Anybody have any success?
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Nick Jordan
December 11th, 2008 at 5:54 am #
WPAU screwed up badly when I tried to upgrade from 2.6.5 to 2.7. I’m not sure yet whether this is down to WPAU yet or not, but DO make sure you back everything up prior to upgrading.
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Joe
December 11th, 2008 at 11:40 am #
Giving your FTP credentials to this plugin is a major breach of security. How do I know they won’t save the login info? Just take their word for it? No thanks.
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polel
December 11th, 2008 at 1:07 pm #
Hi HotForWords!
Yes it works fine with me
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Dean Saliba
December 11th, 2008 at 2:21 pm #
I’ve so far upgraded two of my blogs with the auto update plugin (1.2.2?) and have had no problems at all
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vish
December 11th, 2008 at 2:56 pm #
can i use this plug to upgrade from 2.63 to 2.70? pls advise if anyone has had any experience?
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Roshan
December 11th, 2008 at 2:58 pm #
I am just waiting for Wordpress 2.7 upgrade….
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Fred
December 11th, 2008 at 3:15 pm #
I just downloaded this plugin and when I try to update my wordpress it says that i should disable safe mode. Why does it say that and what should I do?
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zeflasher
December 11th, 2008 at 6:15 pm #
You can upgrade it from 2.6.x to 2.7. It works.
Moreover the Wordpress team probably added this plugin to the wordpress core, as now wordpress has this auto upgrade functionality that really look like this plugin…
So congrats to the author.
Nice work.
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Alexandre
December 12th, 2008 at 3:38 am #
hi there!
your plugin works wonderfully on 2 of my blogs, but on the third one, i can’t seem to make it work: the log says ”
Can’t run unzip.
The full installation log is below :
Plugin directory is ‘/var/www/plennevaux/public_html/alexandre/wp-content/plugins/’
Checking to see if /var/www/plennevaux/public_html/alexandre/wp-content/plugins/ is writable.
Okay.
Nonce verification passed.
About to upgrade 1 plugins.
Upgrading ‘akismet/akismet.php’, download URL is ‘http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/akismet.zip’.
The plugin that needs to be upgraded is not active. Good.
Downloading ‘http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/akismet.zip’…
Downloaded 13192 bytes.
Will save the new version archive (zip) to a temporary file ‘/var/www/plennevaux/public_html/alexandre/wp-content/plugins/one-click-plugin-updater/plg38260155b650ee09f4f40820419951a5.zip’.
About to extract ‘/var/www/plennevaux/public_html/alexandre/wp-content/plugins/one-click-plugin-updater/plg38260155b650ee09f4f40820419951a5.zip’.
Extracting files from /var/www/plennevaux/public_html/alexandre/wp-content/plugins/one-click-plugin-updater/plg38260155b650ee09f4f40820419951a5.zip…
So far, the type is set to ‘plugin’.
gzopen() found, will use PclZip.
PclZip failed!
PclZip says : ‘PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature’
PclZip unavailable, using unzip.
Extracting files from /var/www/plennevaux/public_html/alexandre/wp-content/plugins/one-click-plugin-updater/plg38260155b650ee09f4f40820419951a5.zip…
So far, the type is set to ‘plugin’.
Main loop finished.
”
any idea what is wrong ?
thank you !!
Alex
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DuFFeR
December 12th, 2008 at 9:44 am #
samw question like
HotForWords
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Curious if this works for going from 2.6.x to 2.7
Anybody have any success?
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MerapuLand
December 12th, 2008 at 12:01 pm #
Hi HotForWords
I have upgraded my site from 2.6.3 to 2.7 just now using this plugin. No problem at all
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Mik
December 12th, 2008 at 12:39 pm #
I just used it to upgrade 2.6.5 to 2.7 with no problems. The question is now, 2.7 is meant to have this functionality built-in so do we still need the plugin?
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Max
December 12th, 2008 at 5:39 pm #
Hi, I just upgraded one of my test blogs to WP 2.7 using this plugin and I have a problem. Plugin puts my blog into maitanence mode and doesn’t turned it off. Anybody knows how to fix it? thanks.
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Denver Prophit Jr
December 13th, 2008 at 5:28 pm #
Please consider sniffing out if FTP can use TLS/SSL and USE it instead of sending clear text passwords.
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James Revillini
December 14th, 2008 at 7:08 pm #
Hey Man,
couple things:
1. thanks for this plugin. total lifesaver! been using it since forever.
2. just used it to upgrade a 2.3 to 2.7 – very smooth.
3. enabled gears/turbo on the site and it had one issue which I wonder if it is related … it could not download /path/to/site/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/media/img/flv_player.swf
The resolution was that i had to download 2.7 from wp.org and ftp that file up myself., then it all worked. if this turns out not ot be related to your plugin, ignore.
4. your bbPress forum is in need of some repair … we’re seeing this at the top of the page:
[quote]
bbPress database error: [Table './bbpress/bb_usermeta' is marked as crashed and should be repaired]
SELECT * FROM bb_usermeta WHERE user_id = ‘3650′ AND meta_key = ‘bb_capabilities’
bbPress database error: [Table './bbpress/bb_usermeta' is marked as crashed and should be repaired]
INSERT INTO bb_usermeta ( user_id, meta_key, meta_value ) VALUES ( ‘3650′, ‘bb_capabilities’, ‘a:1:{s:6:\”member\”;b:1;}’ )
bbPress database error: [Table './bbpress/bb_usermeta' is marked as crashed and should be repaired]
SELECT meta_key, meta_value FROM bb_usermeta WHERE user_id = ‘3650′
bbPress database error: [Table './bbpress/bb_usermeta' is marked as crashed and should be repaired]
SELECT * FROM bb_usermeta WHERE user_id = ‘3650′ AND meta_key = ‘bb_capabilities’
bbPress database error: [Table './bbpress/bb_usermeta' is marked as crashed and should be repaired]
INSERT INTO bb_usermeta ( user_id, meta_key, meta_value ) VALUES ( ‘3650′, ‘bb_capabilities’, ‘a:1:{s:6:\”member\”;b:1;}’ )
bbPress database error: [Table './bbpress/bb_usermeta' is marked as crashed and should be repaired]
SELECT meta_key, meta_value FROM bb_usermeta WHERE user_id = ‘3650′
[/quote]
it’s not so bad, except when the action requires a redirect and it can’t.
ok, have a good one.
peace,
Jim
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Mike
December 17th, 2008 at 2:44 pm #
Hi,
Could I get any feedback on the following that I got when I ran the automatic update pre-flight check?
Happy holidays, Mike
Warning: ftp_site() [function.ftp-site]: Could not change perms on /home/vivianfo/public_html/blog: No such file or directory in /home/vivianfo/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 185
Warning: ftp_chdir() [function.ftp-chdir]: Can’t change directory to //home/vivianfo/public_html/blog: No such file or directory in /home/vivianfo/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 222
Warning: ftp_chdir() [function.ftp-chdir]: Can’t change directory to //home/vivianfo/public_html/blog/wp-admin: No such file or directory in /home/vivianfo/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 222
Warning: ftp_chdir() [function.ftp-chdir]: Can’t change directory to //home/vivianfo/public_html/blog/wp-includes: No such file or directory in /home/vivianfo/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 222
Warning: ftp_chdir() [function.ftp-chdir]: Can’t change directory to /home/vivianfo/public_html/blog: No such file or directory in /home/vivianfo/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 414
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Jason
December 22nd, 2008 at 10:42 pm #
For some reason the plugin won’t upgrade to 2.7 I am using 2.6.3 and when I try and upgrade it says I am already using the most current version. How do I solve this?
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Rob
December 26th, 2008 at 8:00 am #
Stuck in maintenance mode? I’ve searched high and low for a resolution to this issue both here and in the forums. Although countless people have experienced this issue, the plugin author has not responded to a single request for help (at least that I can find). The only solution I know of is to replace your index.php file from a wordpress fresh install. I just grabbed a copy from another blog I own. Not sure what causes the error, and it sure would be nice if the plugin author would address/fix this problem.
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Claudio
December 29th, 2008 at 10:18 am #
wonderful plugin but what about new wordpress version (2.7) ? Please email me if you update the plugin and thank you for your useful application!
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amfufu
January 1st, 2009 at 7:34 pm #
Hello there author of Wordpress Automatic Upgrade!
I would like to provide a link for your plugin in my website. Is there a way for you to provide me with a ready code so that the link will be updated everytime a new version for your plugin is available?
Thanks.
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PC
January 2nd, 2009 at 12:21 pm #
Hi,
Thanks for this awesome plugin! However, I’ve run into some problems due to the “Admin SSL” plugin, that encrypts the dashboard.
When I try to finish the updating process, WPAU can’t find the correct final page, and the url becomes something like an indefinite redirect. If you know what I mean?
Can this be avoided?
Best regards,
PC
BuyStudioEquipment.co.uk
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BullyGil
January 6th, 2009 at 1:49 pm #
Dude, congrats!The most awesome plugin i’ve ever seen!;)
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peter
January 18th, 2009 at 11:26 am #
Because i install my blog without fantastioco then I used this plugin (latest version) to upgrade my wordpress blog to 2.7 version. Everything goes well.
thanks for the plugin
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David
January 21st, 2009 at 2:01 pm #
It doesn’t work. After clicking “start”. the screen goes white and stays that way. Tried on 4 different WordPress blogs.
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seo
February 10th, 2009 at 9:12 pm #
Because i install my blog without fantastioco then I used this plugin (latest version) to upgrade my wordpress blog to 2.7 version. Everything goes well.
thanks for the plugin
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Mike P.
February 11th, 2009 at 1:58 am #
I guess you do not need this plugin on WP version 2.7 anymore. It is conflicting with the upgrade core function of WP.
http://kramfs.com/2009/02/11/wordpress-automatic-upgrade-fatal-error-cannot-redeclare-pclziputilpathreduction/
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karin
February 11th, 2009 at 4:04 am #
today 2.7.1 of wordpress came out but WPAU wasn’t responding. No yellow line telling me to upgrade, only the one of wordpress itself. Going to WPAU it told me my wordpress didn’t need to upgrade. I hope this will be fixed soon, because I really love WPAU to upgrade de many blogs I help to maintain. It is really a great plugin, making the backup for you, handeling the plugins etc. The upgrade possibility in wordpress is nothing in comparising with WPAU.
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Shimshon
February 11th, 2009 at 5:12 am #
Automatic Upgrade doesn’t see their is a new version available: 2.7.1!?
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Alwin Chuah
February 11th, 2009 at 5:34 am #
Hi
Thanks for developing this plugin. It really, really helps blogger like me. With your plugin, upgrade the wordpress version is a breeze.
However will you be upgrading your version to work with wordpress 2.7 and beyond?
I hope you will. Now is wordpress ver 2.71(just released)
I even wrote an article in my post on this plugin
http://www.globalblogincome.com/blog-plugin/free-wordpress-automatic-upgrade-plugin/
Keep up the good work
Alwin Chuah ( Malaysia)
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Jack Clarke
February 11th, 2009 at 8:22 pm #
It will not upgrade to 2.7.1, is this plugin still being maintained? It just returns a fatal error, additionally says my WP is up to date at 2.7.
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Anna
February 11th, 2009 at 8:57 pm #
Yeah, mines won’t upgrade to 2.7.1 either. Please fix it soon because this plugin is so handy! I don’t know how to upgrade manually ><
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Mik
February 11th, 2009 at 9:28 pm #
You don’t need this plugin to upgrade 2.7 to 2.7.1 as the functionality is now built into WordPress.
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EvilScienceChick
February 11th, 2009 at 11:06 pm #
Just a tip: if you’re getting pclzip errors when you try to use wordpress’s automatic upgrade feature, you’ll have to deactivate the WP Automatic Upgrade plugin first.
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karin
February 12th, 2009 at 2:49 am #
UPgrading is now part of 2.7 but what about the extra’s WPAU was offering? That’s not buildin in 2.7. The backup of the files, database, deactivating en activating the plugins…
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Blenster
February 12th, 2009 at 9:09 pm #
Thank you for your wonderful plugin. I’ve used it quite happily until WP came out with their own. It hosed my theme completely and doesn’t do backups. I’ll probably never, ever use it again. Please keep this thing going. I vastly prefer it to their “upgrade” (which reset the blog to “like new” basically, wiping out many hours of careful PHP editing to make my CSS work).
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Andy Ghozali
February 13th, 2009 at 2:36 pm #
Hi Keith
I am trying to upgrade 2.7 to 2.7.1 wordpress, using your plugin, 1.2.2
It is not detecting 2.7.1 as an official upgrade, are you able to update your plugin? Thanks in advance!
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Wenotice
February 14th, 2009 at 10:57 pm #
That’s correct, 2.7 does not offer the db backup, file backup, and plugin deactivation. These are the things that made WPAU such an essential and critical part of a wordpress implementation. I wish this would work with 2.7.1…
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Marco Rodrigues
February 15th, 2009 at 5:18 am #
Hi! The automic upgrade is not working to upgrade wordpress for the latest version 2.7.1, it says that’s already updated.
I’ve version 1.2.2 of your plugin.
“Congratulations!!! Your WordPress version is already up to date.”
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Steve
February 15th, 2009 at 10:03 am #
I’d like to second the requests to keep WPUA active. The backup features, deactivation/reactivation, etc., make this a much more useful tool than the built-in auto-upgrade. (Or if you don’t want to maintain it any more, can you pass the code over to whoever is maintaining the built-in Wordpress auto-upgrade so they can incorporate the features?)
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Martin
February 16th, 2009 at 4:12 pm #
Count me in as a HUGE fan of this plugin. I’d love 2.7x support for this plugin. The 2.7 automated upgrade feature does not work for me. Yours worked like a charm! I think the WP devs should have asked for your plugin to be added to the core of 2.7 if they wanted to add an automated upgrade feature!
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hm2k
February 17th, 2009 at 7:39 am #
Issue 1:
Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.7.1.zip
Unpacking the core update
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare pclziputilpathreduction() (previously declared in /home/hm2k/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/lib/pclzip.lib.php:5421) in /home/hm2k/public_html/wp-admin/includes/class-pclzip.php on line 5498
Issue 2:
http://forum.techie-buzz.com/register.php
bbPress database error: [Table './bbpress/bb_users' is marked as crashed and should be repaired]
SELECT * FROM bb_users WHERE user_login = ‘hm2k’
bbPress database error: [Table './bbpress/bb_users' is marked as crashed and should be repaired]
INSERT INTO bb_users (user_login, user_pass, user_email, user_url, user_registered) VALUES (’hm2k’, ‘xxx’, ‘techie-buzz@hm2k.org’, ‘http://www.hm2k.com/’, ‘2009-02-17 12:36:34′)
bbPress database error: [Table './bbpress/bb_users' is marked as crashed and should be repaired]
SELECT * FROM bb_users WHERE ID = 0
bbPress database error: [Table './bbpress/bb_users' is marked as crashed and should be repaired]
SELECT * FROM bb_users WHERE ID = 0
Note: MD5 password hash was removed.
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Quan Nguyen
February 17th, 2009 at 9:59 am #
Question: How do I upgrade automatically from Wordpress 2.7 to the newer versions coming out (ie: 2.7.1)?
Answer: Upgrades are built in starting with 2.7 and up. Tools->Upgrade.
Make sure you Create the /wp-content/upgrade directory (it was not present), set permissions to 777, then update the permissions in wp-content/plugins to 777 as well. Finally, I emptied /wp-content/cache – and plugins are now updating successfully.
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Martin Z
February 19th, 2009 at 1:31 am #
I would give my first born for an upgrade to this great plug-in so it can handle 2.7. WP’s built-in automatic upgrade does not, as many here can attest, work and spits out errors on the core unpack.
Keith’s plug-in worked sooooo well that I’m spoiled rotten by software that made upgrading almost enjoyable. Now, I’ll be lucky to be upgrading at all since the alternative to the auto that doesn’t work is to do it by hand. Yuck.
We should all pony up to paypal and beg Keith for an upgrade to handle future WP updates. Thanks, Keith.
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nedar
February 19th, 2009 at 4:30 pm #
this plugin is absolutely fantastic! totally easy to use. i upgraded my site on bluehost in about 5 minutes, no problems at all – basically just click, click, click. thank you so much! no more waiting for fantastico.
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Asylum
February 20th, 2009 at 10:48 pm #
I just tried to use the auto update plugin to upgrade wordpress to 2.7.1. I then get these errors and it fails.
The first is due to suhosin not liking that wordpress is trying to change the memory_limit. I am not sure if it is this plugin that caused the issue or if it is in wordpress itself but hopefully this will help you.
Feb 20 22:38:28 www suhosin[13603]: ALERT – script tried to increase memory_limit to 268435456 bytes which is above the allowed value (attacker ‘x.x.x.x’, file ‘/srv/www/web/wp-admin/includes/file.php’, line 480)
Feb 20 22:38:28 www httpd2-prefork: PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare pclziputilpathreduction() (previously declared in /srv/www/web/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/lib/pclzip.lib.php:5421) in /srv/www/web/wp-admin/includes/class-pclzip.php on line 5498
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Jamie
February 21st, 2009 at 6:20 am #
Thank you so much for updating your plugin so that I could upgrade to 2.7.1 — your plugin lets me upgrade automatically and seamlessly, and the built-in WP function does not work for me.
Count me as one vote to continue development of this awesome plugin.
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Agent 001
February 27th, 2009 at 8:14 am #
Great News for me. I love this Plugin. I do not want to use the upgrade feature given to me by WordPress. Kudos. Keep updating this plugin.
I even made a Picture Tutorial on it the Last Time I used it. You can look at it @ WordPress Automatic Upgrade Tutorial
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raj
March 6th, 2009 at 1:25 pm #
I get the same error (”Fatal error: Call to undefined function: current_user_can()”) as Nick mentioned above, on Sep 11/2008, but not the database error. I also have WP 1.5.2 and can’t seem to use the plugin (downloaded from wordpress.org on Mar 6/09). Any ideas what might be wrong?
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fumne
March 13th, 2009 at 7:25 am #
hi, i’ve installed the auto upgrade plugin and activated it
however, when i click on upgrade. it says:
‘Congratulations!!! Your WordPress version is already up to date.’
this is version 2.5.1 !! why wont it let me use 2.7.? does this have anything to do with with my host? or my OS?
i am on a Mac using Safari. please help. thanks
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Tina Clarke
March 25th, 2009 at 9:53 pm #
i have 2.2.1 manually updated twice and put it back did not work. auto update plugin did not work till i turned off the rest of the plugins then it did not work for the backups (i did that manually before so that was ok) i got a screen with the menu above and blank below…. so i got to the dl the latest wp and that also gave me a blank pane no matter how long i waited…. this plugin does not work for me …. i think the only thing now is to move the db elsewhere and set it up on a new fresh install instead of a upgrade and see if that works… if it does i can put it on the domain i need it on with fresh install instead of a upgrade…. why cant it be simple? oh and i tried this in ie7 and ff too.
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bigbox
March 28th, 2009 at 5:42 am #
Thank you for your sharing, it’s good plug-in!
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John
April 12th, 2009 at 7:13 pm #
Awsome work! I love this plugin. I have just upgraded to 2.7, made it so easy. All backups + updated files were done preoperly and within 5 mintues.
Deactivated + activated all my plugins for me, cleaned up old wordpress files and all i did was click a few buttons. No more manual upgrading here!
Thanks again for the great plugin, will be donating towards your site
John Hobson
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B7
May 10th, 2009 at 1:01 am #
Worked like a charm. Thank you!!!
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fabio
May 24th, 2009 at 2:59 pm #
didn’t work for me. wanted to update from 1.5.2 but when I click for starting the upgrade I just get a grey field with nothing on it…
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craftyguy
June 11th, 2009 at 7:05 am #
anyone try it for 2.8 yet? i try it and it works fine but then i want to update some plugins and it hang on unpacking, dunno if its this or wordpress though
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Lars
June 11th, 2009 at 9:18 am #
Hi, smooth upgrade to 2.8 – apart from problems with UTF-8 coding. It seems my blog is no longer able to show Norwegian characters. Any hints on what could be wrong?
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Andrew Anderson
June 11th, 2009 at 10:46 pm #
Is there anyway to specify with file it grabs from Wordpress. I need to do a downgrade back to 2.7.1 as 2.8 is hosed. If you could do that, it would be great or tell me if it is just a matter of grabbing a different Archive file. There a boat load of people that are having problems with 2.8 blowing up their site.
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karin
June 12th, 2009 at 9:03 am #
I used wpau to upgrade but the wysiwyg editor was gone. The website I upgraded manually was fine. After manually overwriting the wp-includes directory the wysiwyg editor was there again. In the upgrade there is somewhere a problem with the wp-include. Everything is working on the sites I’ve upgraded, but after I put the wp-included manually on the server again.
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doris
June 12th, 2009 at 4:13 pm #
Hi, I’m Doris from The Netherlands.
I also think this plugin is great, but… yesterday, two sites I updated lost their icons in the editor after updating, luckily we could restore this by re-installing the wpincludes directory.
The next thing that really worries me because I can’t solve it: on another site I also wanted to do the automatic update, but I was asked for ftp information.
After I provided this, I had a huge problem: I can no longer reach the wp-admin part, it gives the message: Nothing found for Wp-admin Page Php
I really hope someone can help met out! I’m totally clueless off what to do now?
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Bruce Fields
June 12th, 2009 at 11:17 pm #
I just updated to 2.8 from 2.7.1 and the process did not go well. I have a working copy of WP but I can no longer access to edit any posts or pages. The non html does not show up. I don’t have a clue what to do. Please help. Thank you.
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Jay Greathouse
June 14th, 2009 at 4:58 pm #
used WAU 1.2.5 to upgrade from 2.7.1 to 2.8 on 3 different blogs and immediately had issues with the visual editor not displaying, eventually discovered that I was missing files, manually added said files and visual editor returned, so at least my problems with 2.8 directly related to incomplete install through WAU 1.2.5
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McLaughlin
June 16th, 2009 at 8:21 am #
I just used your tool to upgrade a site and it worked – sort of. I ended up with one file that did not copy over so my WYSIWYG editing did not work. Call me stupid, but I did not write down which file it was, assuming that it was a fluke. Now I’ve just upgraded another site and had the same problem so I’m off searching for that file again. I may just do a clean install, probably faster.
Oh yeah, in the DIY forums there are a couple people with the same issue – I’m not the lone ranger.
Cheers
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McLaughlin
June 16th, 2009 at 8:40 am #
sorry to double comment, I clean installed the /wp-includes file and the issue went away.
Cheers
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Mike
June 23rd, 2009 at 3:40 am #
The File that was not completed in the installation is the: wlwmanifest.xml
However, I replaced this file using a FTP and it did not solve the problem. When you say you did a clean install of the /wp-includes, do you mean you just uploaded the entire folder via ftp or just certain files? What is the safest way to do this because my dashboard is still all messed up? Thanks.
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Bookmark
June 24th, 2009 at 9:56 am #
I like this Plugin. I don’t want to use the upgrade feature given to me by WordPress. Keep updating this plugin.
Thanks.
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rachwal
July 16th, 2009 at 11:00 am #
Great job! Thanks for the plug-in …
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Guh
July 16th, 2009 at 11:20 pm #
I cant make it work with my blog. Mine hosted on 000webhost.com
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Anthony
July 24th, 2009 at 1:55 pm #
There is an issue when the blog site is secured with https. IE is the only one that notifies of the issue just cause IE is stupid, but it will display the message “this page uses both secure and non-secure items”. It is really annoying and only displays when your plugin is enabled. I really like your plugin so is it possible to fix it so it is compatible with IE. I can’t use anything but IE at work so if I do not get it fixed I will be forced to stop using your plugin.
Note:
I do not want to change IE’s security settings. That is not an answer.
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bobit
August 3rd, 2009 at 11:52 pm #
thanks, its worked for me
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mother_dress
August 9th, 2009 at 3:51 am #
It went through the upgrade fine, and I am told to click on a link to complete the upgrade process, then the plugin will automatically update my plugins. And I click the link, and it tells me I have to login again. I enter my info, and it says the password is incorrect.
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Spiro K.
August 13th, 2009 at 7:58 am #
Hello People,
Can you please help?
The auto update failed in this site and now I get a Fatal error:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare timer_stop() (previously declared in /var/virtual/web/w2651/html/blog/wp-settings.php:189) in /var/virtual/web/w2651/html/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 865
Please help!
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Tennis
August 14th, 2009 at 2:37 am #
Thank for this plugin. It worked flawlessly doing my upgrade.
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T. Roehlig
August 21st, 2009 at 2:52 pm #
Great plugin ! This work very well, Thank You !
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thaidigg
August 27th, 2009 at 3:50 am #
I like this Plugin. I don’t want to use the upgrade feature given to me by WordPress. Keep updating this plugin.
Thanks.
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peterms
August 27th, 2009 at 4:43 am #
This is the best plug-in I hv ever used!
Just click the button and it’s done…aewsome!!
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tum
August 27th, 2009 at 6:25 am #
Thank you for your sharing, I like this Plugin. I don’t want to use the upgrade feature given to me by WP. Keep updating this plugin.
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Paula
August 28th, 2009 at 1:36 am #
Thanks for the release and update. Great plugin, I could say.
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hotelsza Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Thank alot for nice plugin.
It’s good work for me.
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cburell
August 28th, 2009 at 6:04 pm #
Hello,
I’m running WP 2.8.4, with v. 1.2.5 of automatic upgrade. I’m not sure when or why it happened, but my blog’s feedburner feed is stuck in Maintenance Mode with the WAP message:
“The Site is currently undergoing maintenance, Sorry for the inconvinience
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade Plugin provided by Techie Buzz.”
On a side note, does 2.8.4 have an auto-updater as a built-in feature now?
Thanks for any insight you can give for bringing my feed back from the dead.
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cburell Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Disregard: I posted on the Bb forum as you requested, thanks
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spadoz
August 28th, 2009 at 6:15 pm #
Thanks for sharing plugin. it does look easy to upgrade for me.
^_^
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YorTz
September 2nd, 2009 at 6:46 am #
I like this Plugin. I don’t want to use the upgrade feature given to me by WordPress. Keep updating this plugin.
Thanks.
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Kero
September 5th, 2009 at 4:03 am #
Hi, this plugin is very useful! thanks alot man!!
but can I request something? can you make automatic plugin upgrade ?
because thousands of byethost users will happy with that..because that hosting do not support auto upgrade.
once again, thanks!!!
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Tim Reply:
September 7th, 2009 at 5:21 am
You could us “One Click Plugin Updater” by Janis Elsts…
http://w-shadow.com/blog/2007/10/19/one-click-plugin-updater/
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Ben Rama
September 5th, 2009 at 10:15 am #
thanks buddy worked really easily like a charm tx
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Craw
September 13th, 2009 at 2:39 am #
Hi, I’m getting this error:
Warning: fopen(/home/fourph/public_html/store/wpau-backup/index.html) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/fourph/public_html/store/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_helper.class.php on line 80
Cannot open file (/home/fourph/public_html/store/wpau-backup/index.html). Please create a empty /home/fourph/public_html/store/wpau-backup/index.html file manually
Warning: fopen(/home/fourph/public_html/store/wpau-backup/index.php) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/fourph/public_html/store/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_helper.class.php on line 90
Cannot open file (/home/fourph/public_html/store/wpau-backup/index.php). Please create a empty /home/fourph/public_html/store/wpau-backup/index.html file manually
And when I tried creating the index.html file manually it gives me a similar error but it disappears and is being replaced with the message about the last upgrade files weren’t cleaned out, and it leaves me in a loop like this.
Please help. I find this plugin very helpful (before it started spitting out these error messages).
Thank you.
I’m using it in this site: http://www.4×4ph.com/store
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ethiodelight
September 13th, 2009 at 10:57 am #
I was using 2.8 version but now with the help of this magnificent plug in i upgrade my site to 2.8.4 version with out any errors tnx for sharing this kind of amazing plug in nice work
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โปรโมทเว็บฟรี
September 17th, 2009 at 8:55 pm #
I’ll be trying this out soon,
see how it works. thanks for making it.
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promote
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:02 am #
Now, I just start to use the wordpress. it is difficult for me. i will learn and learn. I think this plugin is good to me.
Thanks for this plugin.
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siamhothit
September 28th, 2009 at 12:05 pm #
Thanks for sharing plugin…
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janetruth
October 12th, 2009 at 2:55 pm #
I have used your plugin for some time and very much enjoyed the convenience. I just tried to upgrade my WP and got this message when I tried to visit my website:
The Site is currently undergoing maintenance, Sorry for the inconvinience
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade Plugin provided by Techie Buzz.
I’m a non technical user and would be thankful for any and all help you can provide. I’m really stuck.
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Keith Dsouza Reply:
October 12th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
@jentruth – Login to the FTP site and delete index.php from the root WordPress directory, after that rename the index.wpau.bak file to index.php, this should resolve your problem.
For detailed instructions please take a look at this forum topic. http://forum.techie-buzz.com/topic/upgrade-issue-site-stuck-in-maintenance-mode
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Cynthia
October 15th, 2009 at 10:41 am #
Hi there,
When I click on “Click here” to begin update. I get a blank page. Nothing happens. I tried skipping the backup steps, but I still got a blank page when I click on “get latest version of wordpress.” Nothing happens. I’ve tried numerous times on two different computers.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thank you.
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ndesigns
October 15th, 2009 at 9:25 pm #
Great plugin. thanks for sharing.
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