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This is by far the most amazing plugins I have used for WP. I upgraded to 2.6 with the old version, no issues.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Last time i used this i had some problem. It didn’t activated any plugin last time..

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.

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.

Can I use this to go from WP 2.3.2 to the current version? This thing looks cool!!

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

Can you use this to upgrade from a 2.3 version up to the latest version in one step?

Thanks for this plugin. It worked flawlessly doing my upgrade.

Great plugin. Worked flawlessly.

very good plugin!

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?

Thanks! This plugin will be very handy for upgrading! Cheers

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).

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.

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

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?

I upgraded to 2.6 without issues. Awesome plug in! I donated for this one. It saved me time and anxiety.

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?

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

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!

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…

This is a nice plugin

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

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.

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

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

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?

Thanks for plugin upgraded to 2.6 in 6-7 steps.. rock on..

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.

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.

I like it! Thanks

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!

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.

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.

Just upgraded from 2.6 to 2.6.1 just fine.

Cheers
Tim

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?

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/

hi. Thanks for plugin

perfect.

Regards

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.

Thanks for this awesome plugin

It’s not automatic anymore. It makes me do everything step by step.

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?

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

best plugin ever used!
just click , click and finish!

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

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.

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?

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.

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

WordPress 2.6.2 is out. Is it safe to update with your plugin? Thanks

Any reason why 2.6.2 isn’t being detected by WPAU?

http://wordpress.org/development/2008/09/wordpress-262/

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?

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

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!

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/

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

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!

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

Could u make a maintenance mode plugin?

\Frederik

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

great work! thanks!!

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??