Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin
Update: 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: This plugin apparently does not work well when the webuser and ftp users are different. I have overcome those problems and working on testing the latest version which works fine on all systems including the above ones. I would be releasing a new version later this week which will fix all the bugs that have been reported. Thanks for all your help in making this plugin more stable. Latest version released with all bug fixes. Click here to go to latest version page.I have away for the past couple of works partly due to being busy and partly due to this new plugin that I was developing for Wordpress. With help from Ronald Heureca who has helped with automating the plugin I proudly release Wordpress Automatic Upgrade.
What is Wordpress Automatic Upgrade?
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade is a plugin that automatically upgrades your wordpress version to the latest files provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions.
WPAU as I call it helps you easily upgrading you to easily upgrade your wordpress installation to the latest version provided by wordpress, without having to download or upload any files.
In addition to this it automatically backups your current file and database and provides you with a link to download those. De-activates your plugins and remembers them so that after upgrading files it will re-activate those without you having to make any notes for which plugins you de-activated and the biggest saves you headaches of upgrading your wordpress installation.
Here is what WPAU does;
1. Backs up the files and makes available a link to download it.
2. Backs up the database and makes available a link to download it.
3. Downloads the latest files from http://wordpress.org/latest.zip and unzips it.
4. Puts the site in maintenance mode.
5. De-activates all active plugins and remembers it.
6. Upgrades wordpress files.
7. Gives you a link that will open in a new window to upgrade installation.
8. Re-activates the plugins.
The plugin can also can be run in a automated mode where in you do not have to click on any links to go to the next step.
FAQ
What is Wordpress Automatic Upgrade?
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade is a plugin that automatically upgrades your wordpress version to the latest files provided by wordpress.org.
Why use this plugin?
Wordpress releases regular updates and security fixes to the software and after sometime makes it mandatory. Every time you have to manually upgrade your wordpress installation. This plugin helps you to upgrade your installation without any efforts. We also ensure you will always download the latest version.
Which version of the wordpress does it upgrade to?
It upgrades to the latest version that wordpress has made available for download.
What is the lowest version from which I can upgrade?
The lowest version of Wordpress I have tested this to work is with Wordpress 1.5.
Why don’t you provide a option for me to upload the version I want?
Couple of things here. a. You should always upgrade to the latest version provided by Wordpress. b. I do not want users to upload files that requires me to do multiple validations. The wordpress files that this plugin downloads is the best one I could use.
Will it remember the plugins that were active?
Yes it will remember the plugins that were active before upgradation and only activate those plugins.
How much bandwidth does the plugin use?
The plugin using about 2-3MB of your bandwidth to download files. You will use more than that in a regular upgrade process.
How long will my files and db backups be available?
This plugin is to be used for a continious process till completion, it provides you with backups which you should download before moving to the next step. If you do not download the backups, at the end of the process you will be given an option to download it. Clicking clean up will delete those backup files.
Where are the files and db backup stored?
The files are db backups are stored in a folder called wpau-backup in the root folder of your site.
Does wordpress automatic upgrade provide a rollback?
No it does not, the function of WPAU is to seamlessly upgrade your versions. Rollback features will be added in future versions.
Installation Instructions
1. Download the wordpress-automatic-upgrade.zip file to your local machine.
2. Unzip the file
3. Upload `wordpress-automatic-upgrade` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
4. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Usage Instructions
Go to Manage -> Automatic Upgrade and either click on the link provided to run or use the automated version link to let the plugin run in a automated way.
ChangeLog
- Version 0.1 released Tuesday, July 17th 2007
License
All files and their contents are licensed under the General Public License(GPL).
Support
If you feel this plugin has helped you can leave a small donation towards further plugin development.
Download
Download Wordpress Automatic Upgrade v0.1 downloaded times
Please note this plugin is still in beta state and may have bugs. If you find any bugs or want to report any problems you have faced please feel free to leave your comments or you can send me a email at wpplugins@techie-buzz.com
This plugin is a part of the Weblog Tools Collection plugin competition too.
ReviewSaurus
July 17th, 2007 at 7:01 pm #
Wow it has to be the best plugin ever made for wordpress!!
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keith Reply:
July 17th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
Thanks for the compliments.
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john oneill Reply:
August 22nd, 2008 at 9:00 am
wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_upgrade.class.php on line 361
We could not complete the upgrade please try again later, click here to check the logs.
Any ideas?
Thanks
John
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Wanita Cantik Reply:
November 19th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
My question is same with this coment, any ideas..Thanks before…
Uzair Reply:
October 8th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
This is the best plugin i have ever seen
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keith Reply:
October 10th, 2007 at 8:05 am
glad you liked it Uzair.
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Brown Baron
July 17th, 2007 at 8:03 pm #
Impressive. I’m sure a lot of people will be upgrading now that they can use this plugin. Great work buddy.
Stumbled.
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keith Reply:
July 17th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
Hey thanks for appreciating Baron.
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Goran Web Reply:
August 23rd, 2008 at 6:01 am
Great plugin to prevent any loss of data. Thanks mate.
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pelf
July 17th, 2007 at 8:07 pm #
I’ve not tried it but I thought I should alert you that WordPress is spelt “WordPress”, not “Wordpress” or “wordpress”. It may mean just a typo for you, but people will question your credibility if you can’t even get the platforn name straight..
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keith Reply:
July 17th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
Hey pelf,
Pardon my spelling mistake but how does it question my credibility on not naming a platform. FYI wordpress is not in the dictionary so however you spell it it’s always wrong may it be WordPress, Wordpress or wordpress. This is not a spelling competition.
Keith
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pelf Reply:
July 17th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Hi Keith
Yeah, I understand this isn’t a spelling competition, and I hope you don’t take my comment personally. To quote an article Lorelle wrote on Blog Herald:
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Ernesto Gluecksmann Reply:
October 17th, 2007 at 9:00 am
WordPress is the correct trademark… funny however, that the WordPress program itself natively installs itself in a /wordpress/ directory and not /WordPress/ which it could have easily done.
WP, wordpress, Wordpress, are fine. Yes, they may run a foul by the more persnickety types, but they’re all pretty common usage.
For example, it’s called a “BlackBerry”, technically. However, most people commonly use “Blackberry” and even there, if you’re referring to the platform, you should probably be using “Research In Motion”, but if you use that, you’re likely to lose most non-tech types (most business users of their beloved “BBs”) because they mostly think of them as simply, Blackberries (or is it BlackBerrys? #^@$). But I digress…
Let us not forget that these funky trademarks like WordPress are not exactly proper nouns.. anyway. So if someone’s “mistakenly” uses Wordpress instead of the trademark, you have to give some leeway. And most certainly, I’m not fan of being influenced by anyone’s marketing department… with the exception of WordPress, because they’re the greatest blogging software in the world and I don’t think they have a marketing department. WordPress it is.
Manoj Sterex Reply:
March 1st, 2008 at 12:18 am
Lol! URLs are case insensitive. So it does not matter if its WoRdPrEsS or wordpress! :P
ARod Reply:
March 12th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Oh my.. This is funny.. Spelling.. LOL…lol…
Smokie Reply:
April 27th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
If you have a Yahoo! web hosting package, the URLs are case-sensitive though. So thanks to WordPress for *not* capitalizing the installation directory! =)
Johan Reply:
April 29th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Seriously, I thought this was meant to be a joke but after reading a bit further I’ve realised it wasn’t…. Bet the spelling police will arrest my sorrow Swedish bum too?! ;P
hakimtea Reply:
June 17th, 2008 at 12:58 am
I choosy the plugin not the spelling… Lol :-D
Diane Reply:
June 3rd, 2008 at 5:47 am
LOL I’m not a good writer myself, so I don’t mind much about spelling and grammar as long as it’s understandable. Don’t get too serious with this issue unless you are publishing a paper.
Love this plugin. I’m going to try now and give you a feedback. It’s very useful for newbies like me. That’s awesome! I’m going to recommend this to my friends too. Thanks again.
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jk Reply:
May 1st, 2008 at 9:41 pm
oh pallllllllllllllleeeez… That that is the most ridiculous comment ever… You don’t have a lot of friends do you?
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Daveski Reply:
September 18th, 2009 at 11:11 am
Pelf, platforn? If your gunna be whingin’ about spelling you should at least checkity check yoself b4 yo reckity reck yo self! Seen
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Nirmal
July 17th, 2007 at 8:28 pm #
Keith,
This is a great plugin for wordpress.
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pelf
July 17th, 2007 at 8:41 pm #
I have downloaded and tried the plugin to upgrade from version 2.1.3 but it doesn’t work..
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Tim Turner Reply:
April 28th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Didn’t work for me either. Failed at the last point I think. I sent in the log file. Guess I’ll go back and try to repeat what I did last week to upgrade. Can’t wait for the one-click upgrade to work.
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Ronald Huereca
July 17th, 2007 at 9:07 pm #
WordPress, wordpress, Wordpress, wp, wordPress, WP… :) All the same to me personally, but I still spell it WordPress.
pelf,
I’ve had issues with one of my hosts and the issue seems to be folder permissions. What step is yours failing at and are you using the automated version or the step-by-step version?
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Mr.Byte
July 17th, 2007 at 10:30 pm #
Thats a great plugin and saves a lot of time…
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Shankar Ganesh
July 18th, 2007 at 5:15 am #
Awesome Job, Keith. Will surely help people like me.
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Trakin
July 18th, 2007 at 8:25 am #
Keith,
What an awesome WP plugin release. I am sure once this plugin goes through iterations and refinements, it could be a part of Wordpress itself. Imagine the amount of time you are going to save for thousands of bloggers. Not only that, the updation process will become so simple and the update to WP’s will be so much faster.
I can’t thank you enough for providing this plugin to WordPress Community. Well done and keep up the good work !
One of the major reasons for success of WordPress paltform is due to the quality releases you guys provide, without asking back much in return !
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keith Reply:
July 18th, 2007 at 8:29 am
Hey Trakin,
Thank you. Yes when its open source you get lot of quality enhancements and refinements done and that’s what the worpdress community is about.
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Stefan
July 18th, 2007 at 11:55 am #
The plugin won’t get past stage 1 with my WordPress weblog.
I get some errors:
I couldn’t find any documentation about file permissions, settings or restrictions… Is there any available?
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keith Reply:
July 18th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Hi Stefan,
Thanks for the error. I will definitely work on this and fix this error and release with the next version.
Thanks
Keith
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Benedict Herold
July 18th, 2007 at 2:34 pm #
Keith, you have got a great plugin but i didn’t have a chance it try it though. Once this plugin becomes stable won’t it be a better idea to integrate with WordPress release itself?
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keith Reply:
July 19th, 2007 at 8:27 am
Hi Benedict yes once the plugin becomes stable I will definitely push for integration.
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Kyle Eslick
July 19th, 2007 at 5:06 pm #
Wow, I was wondering where you were. This is a good excuse :)
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Wojtek
July 21st, 2007 at 8:33 am #
I wonder how FFS nobody has registered the fact, that this plugin doesn’t put the site back from maintenance mode to production mode.
Now I have my test site (thanks God I was cautious enough not to put it on my production site!) displaying some nice:
“The Site is currently undergoing maintenance, Sorry for the inconvinience
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade Plugin provided by Techie Buzz.”
Any way to get rid of this?
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keith Reply:
July 21st, 2007 at 8:45 am
Hi Wojtek,
This message should go away when you complete the entire process. Did you complete the entire process?
To do away with this message simply delete the index.php in your root directory and rename index.php.wpau.bak to index.php.
Thanks
Keith
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Wojtek Reply:
July 21st, 2007 at 11:14 am
Hi Keith,
glad you’ve been so quick, even though we’re in totally different timezones.
Yes, I’ve run the process from the very beginning to the end. However there were some issues I’d try to pinpoint:
a) when I settled down for the ‘automatic’ process (it’s a test site after all), the automatic procedure failed on step #1. But it was all OK when I ran it step-by-step manually.
b) the pre-final screen provides a bit of disambiguation – there’s a link “final step here!” leading to DB upgrade, and another one, a bit below, leading to the “final step” (display of changed files, additional links for DB backup download etc).
c) I’ve tried to run this script on a site that doesn’t allow ZIP unpacking by PHP – I believe a quick preflight check of site capabilities would be nice.
Finally, a “manual override of maintenance mode” (actually a solution for my case ;-) ) would also be quite helpful in troubleshooting.
Thanks again for the tip, I didn’t thought of taking a peek into the root dir ;-)
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keith Reply:
July 21st, 2007 at 11:24 am
Hi Wojtek,
First of all the quick reply is possible using another plugin I had created earlier called Better Comments Manager :).
For your queries.
a. The issue with a has been fixed I am releasing a new version probably today or tomm that should take care of it.
b. I understand that issue but I am trying a way to fix it.
c. I am running a pre check now in the latest version. I would absolutely fix all issue you report and will definitely take this into the fix process when I release the next version.
Yes this plugin is young and so the FAQ’s are not up to the mark. I will definitely add this to the FAQ too.
Janis Elsts
July 25th, 2007 at 3:49 am #
Failed at first step with a lengthy (full page) error message beginning with :
WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ' task_log = '<br /><br /><br /><strong>Creating</strong> files backup archive at' at line 1]UPDATE wpau_upgrade_log set task_status = , task_log =' (...)
I looked at the source code and it looks like something might be failing in wpau_backup_files(), though I’m not sure yet. I think I found a different mistake though – in wpauPersist(), line 786 says
$wpdb->query('UPDATE '.WPAU_LOG_TABLE.' set task_status = '.$funcComplete.', (...)When $funcComplete is false (as in my case when wpau_backup_files() apparently fails) this line will evaluate to … task_status = , … -> incorrect MySQL syntax. If I were you I’d use
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keith Reply:
July 25th, 2007 at 10:47 am
Hi Janis,
Thanks for the information. I have already fixed the bug and also others which this plugin had. I am doing some testing right now and should release a newer version this weekend.
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Mybloggo
July 25th, 2007 at 12:12 pm #
Help me!!!! after i upgrade using this plugin……My blog is not working
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Mybloggo
July 25th, 2007 at 12:30 pm #
Faster reply me………
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keith Reply:
July 25th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Hi John,
Can you please tell me the issue you are facing I would be glad to help you out and fix the problem.
Keith
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Humberto Valentin
July 25th, 2007 at 9:12 pm #
I LOVE YOU
i have 6 sites and is a pain in the a** update all them but now i can take vacations you are the best , i hope yoo can make the same with the templates
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Thilak
July 27th, 2007 at 8:19 pm #
Like always, Keith’s plugins are always the best. Thanks for reliving the upgrade pain
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MTO
July 30th, 2007 at 8:07 am #
Hello,
I wanted to try this, but after it asks for my ftp account I get these errors:
Warning: ftp_mkdir() [function.ftp-mkdir]: No directory name in /home/mysite/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 393
Warning: ftp_site() [function.ftp-site]: No file name in /home/mysite/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 399
I does say “done WPAU is ready to roll”, but in view of the above errors I didnt know if it would be safe, so I didnt proceed.
I have no idea what to do, what can be done?
Thanks.
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Vic
August 2nd, 2007 at 7:46 pm #
Thanks for such a great list of plugins, this list are so helpful for the new guy.
Thanks
Vic
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Paul B.
August 5th, 2007 at 9:22 am #
Awesome plug in. Thank you!
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Nspeaks
August 5th, 2007 at 8:22 pm #
The plugin worked wonderfully updating 2.2.1 to 2.2.2 but it doesn’t reactivate the plugins after the upgrade. Please fix this problem. This problem is also faced by one more user I know in updgrading from 2.2.1 to 2.2.2
Read about it at http://www.johnchow.com/wordpress-222-and-2011-security-update/#comment-93026
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keith Reply:
August 7th, 2007 at 10:23 am
Hi Nspeaks,
I have found out this bug and this issue should be fixed and a patched version released shortly.
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Dave
August 8th, 2007 at 6:35 am #
Thanks for developing the plug in. Very useful.
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keith Reply:
August 9th, 2007 at 8:21 am
thanks for the appreciation dave.
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lester
August 8th, 2007 at 9:21 am #
Thanks!
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Deelip
August 9th, 2007 at 12:55 pm #
Wow, this iasawesome.
I’ve just succefully upgraded my wordpress blog.
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Dave Zan
August 10th, 2007 at 11:42 pm #
Just found this plugin and decided to give it a try. But upon trying to just activate it, I get this:
“Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.”
Just read the blog entry and saw the link here, so here you go.
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Eduardo Larequi
August 11th, 2007 at 11:42 am #
Great job. As we say in spanish, “funciona como un reloj” (it works like clockwork).
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Venki
August 28th, 2007 at 2:07 am #
Hi, Thanks for the wonderful plugin. I am not able to go beyond backing up the files and the database. When the plugin tries to download the latest version it fails with the following message
Task Name: getlatestfiles
Task Description: Downloads / Uploads the latest files for wordpress
Task Status: Failed
Task Start Date: 2007-08-28 09:56:21
Task End Date: 2007-08-28 09:57:21
Task Log: Starting to download the file from http://wordpress.org/latest.zip
Downloading the file using FOPEN methodERROR -> Remote File Error -> Could not read remote file. Please specify a proper path
Can you please help with the error, so that I can upgrade my two blogs without any problems.
Thanks once again for the wonderful plugin.
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matthew feldman
August 28th, 2007 at 9:27 am #
I keep getting error messages:
Warning: ftp_chdir() [function.ftp-chdir]: /-public_html: No such file or directory in /home/cfl/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/Automatic Update/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 203
Warning: ftp_site() [function.ftp-site]: -public_html: No such file or directory in /home/cfl/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/Automatic Update/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 166
Warning: ftp_chdir() [function.ftp-chdir]: -public_html: No such file or directory in /home/cfl/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/Automatic Update/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 395
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Robert
September 3rd, 2007 at 2:02 pm #
Works like a charm. Installed plug-in, clicked the auto upgrade feature and away it went. No problems. What a great plug-in… much appreciated.
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keith Reply:
September 3rd, 2007 at 5:12 pm
Hey Robert,
Glad you liked it.
Keith
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Uber-Geek
September 5th, 2007 at 4:39 pm #
Tested it on three Wordpress installations.
If running from a www domain, the manual process will time out after the backup, when it’s doing the upgrade. Nothing happens on the server side, the site is left alone.
On subdomains, I get the following 404 error:
/wp-admin/page=wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php&task=files&_wpnonce=9ae31c0183 was not found on this server.
I’ve tried this on two subdomain installs, and one www domain install.
Hope this helps the debugging process. I’m looking forward to see this working 100%. Updating multiple wordpress installs is a pain.
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keith Reply:
September 5th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Hey Uber,
Thanks for the information, I will fix the above errors and release a patched version soon.
Keith
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Colin Dean
September 8th, 2007 at 12:12 pm #
It would be nice to have a list of all the files that need to be writable. Or, better yet, a shell script that asks for the username of your web server user and then sets the permissions correctly. I don’t run FTP for security and memory reasons (SFTP only).
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Mark
September 9th, 2007 at 1:03 pm #
A great plugin, one of the best really!
But there is a little error:
wpau_prelimcheck.class.php:90
if($thePerms[2]
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Eric
September 12th, 2007 at 4:44 am #
How long should it take to upgrade? I seem to be stuck at step one… I see a wpau-backup folder is created, it has to files in it, both 0 k. This for about an hour and a half. Should I wait? should I cancel (if possible?)
thnx for you help.
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humberto Reply:
September 13th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
in my case take only 1 min and a i try in 6 diferent sites
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humberto
September 12th, 2007 at 9:29 pm #
all the users can update and is not ok only admin can do that , will be great to fix this.
But in general work great.
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Clive Murray
September 13th, 2007 at 3:39 am #
I’m getting the 404 as well. First of all I see this “Great the preliminiary checks of your server is complete and WPAU is ready to roll. Click here so that we can start the upgrade.”
So I click there, and it 404s immediately. I don’t have WordPress installed in the root of my domain, but in /wp/ – could this be causing the problem? My installation is v2.2 and I was hoping to upgrade to v2.2.3, but I’m having no joy.
–c.
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mrben
September 14th, 2007 at 1:10 am #
Upgrade worked fine, apart from not being able to reactivate the plugins at the end.
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enQuira
September 14th, 2007 at 12:55 pm #
Hi Keith, Thanks a lot for the great plugin. It works like a charm.
I only had an issue with a blog with ver large database >100MB. Is there a way you can make the backup step optional.
Thanks
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My Lil Venture
September 14th, 2007 at 4:45 pm #
I couldn’t wait to try it but when I did today, I got error at Stage 3. Anyone have any idea what that means?
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Finis Price
September 15th, 2007 at 10:10 am #
I get the following error when trying to use auto run:
Could not successfully get the latest WordPress installation. Failed at Step 3.
Anyone know how to fix this?
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scoot
September 22nd, 2007 at 4:15 pm #
Hey Kieth,
Thanks for the plug in, I know it will be a good thing. Whenever I activate it though I get:
WordPress database error: [Lost connection to MySQL server during query]…
and
WordPress database error: [MySQL server has gone away]…
and
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at…
I hope this helps – I cant activate at this point.
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rivermaya
September 27th, 2007 at 5:58 pm #
Hi,
why always stating this “Database files could not be backed up. Failed at Step 2.”
how to fix it ? thanks
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Jussi Reply:
May 9th, 2008 at 5:04 am
I had the same issue. Probably because of exec() being disabled in PHP prefs (at least it comes up in non-automated version). Haven’t found a solution so far.
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Martin
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:06 am #
how do we delete the wpau-backup folder? i am unable to do so via ftp
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Anabelle
October 4th, 2007 at 9:06 pm #
THANK YoU!!! I run about 18 Wordpress blogs and most of them are out of date (off course) but only until tomorrow thanks to your great plugin!!!
GREAT GREAT!!! I love you already!
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Michael
October 9th, 2007 at 6:14 pm #
I have three WordPress blogs on my domain, can I set up a test blog as a fourth site to test this plugin without affecting the other three?
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Mark
October 11th, 2007 at 5:57 am #
Hi, love the plugin, although I’ve had a couple of problems running it. I keep getting messages like the following about ‘allowed memory size’:Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 46080 bytes) in wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 255Got variations of that when I tried the step-by-step update. Then tried automatic and that worked, but when I try to run the clean-up step I get the above message and it’s preventing my admin pages loading below the header.Any suggestions?Thanks.
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Mark
October 11th, 2007 at 6:03 am #
Whoops – I left my full path in my last post! Would you mind removing or replacing it before approving? Many thanks!
Mark
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db
October 18th, 2007 at 4:29 am #
Thanks for the plug-in. I know Wordpress says its easy but I never seem to get the upgrades done right.
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Don
October 18th, 2007 at 2:18 pm #
This plugin does NOT work with WordPress 1.5. It calls the function current_user_can() which wasn’t introduced until 2.x versions.
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Butler
October 21st, 2007 at 6:26 pm #
Before I try this out has anyone used this to upgrade to 2.3. I want to update so I can use the built in tag features.
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mike
October 30th, 2007 at 12:05 am #
Hi,
Just want to say thanks for the wonderful plugin.i think it works with latest version of wordpress.I am going to install it and see.
All the best.
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Grace
November 5th, 2007 at 2:31 am #
I have upgraded thanks to the plugin but right after, I could not get email notifications for new comments!!
Anyone having the same problem?
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David Tan
November 6th, 2007 at 7:28 am #
Makes my post easier way to upgrade wordpress virtually useless :( Anyhow, nice plugin, I love it!
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MarcF.
November 11th, 2007 at 11:03 pm #
Works out fine for me , thanks for sharing this great plugin with us.
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Mark.
November 11th, 2007 at 11:04 pm #
thanks for this great plugin , works like a charm
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Will
November 13th, 2007 at 5:18 pm #
It does not appear the author of this plugin has responded to questions here in over two months, but I will try anyway.
The plugin does not work for me because I have wordpress installed in its own directory. After starting the plugin in manual mode it tells me it has backed up the db successfully. But when I click to download the file, it can’t find it. Error message:
“Nothing found for wpau-backup Wpau-db-backupAHFsdca.zip”
I did use ftp to download it manually. It was there, just not where the plugin was looking for it.
Because of this I did not continue the backup procedure thinking that there would be further similar errors in the process.
What do you suggest?
Thanks!
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David
November 14th, 2007 at 9:47 pm #
Hi there
I ran the upgrade script a first time, but ran into trouble with, I think, the FTP instructions because I have Wordpress’ index.php file in /public_html, not /public_html/wp where the rest of Wordpress is installed.
So I moved index.php from /public_html to /public_html/wp and edited it accordingly (i.e. changing require(‘./wp/wp-blog-header.php’); to require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’); with the plan to simply move it back once the upgrade was completed.
So I ran the upgrade script a second time, and things went smoothly.
But then I got to the part of the upgrade that says Congratulations!!! All the files have been upgraded to the latest version. Please CLICK HERE TO COMPLETE THE FINAL STEP (opens in new window and will show you a upgrade link only if database has to be upgraded) and come back here to reactivate your plugins.
So I clicked the COMPLETE THE FINAL STEP link and was served up Wordpress’ 404 error with this code at the top:
I’ve searched far and wide, but cannot find a solution.
Does this have something to do with the switch from categories to tags? If so, how do I resolve?
Meanwhile, when I try to access the WP admin page, I get this:
I’m assuming that’s because I changed index.php around, but can’t be sure yet.
Immediate assistance would be much appreciated.
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Andrius
December 8th, 2007 at 7:48 pm #
Thanks a lot for this plugin :P i will be using it in my page (www.tupalm.net), it is one of the most useful plugins I’ve found. Keep going ;) and if you want to read my page :P you will need to use Google Translate >__< because it is in spanish.
THANKS, KEEP GOING.
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Tadd
December 10th, 2007 at 12:04 pm #
This is probably one of the BEST plugins I’ve used. It’s great. A wonder! Well done!
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Anna
December 10th, 2007 at 12:57 pm #
Hi. I can’t even get to stage 1 because the system won’t take my credentials. I use by user name, my password just like on my ftp server, my ftp host name is my name of the blog (do I need to use ftp b/f the name-tried this too.) As for my worpress docs it seems that they are under /html When the ftp first comes up database, logs, etc are there. I assume that is not wordpress docs. In the html section is htaccess so I thought this is where the wordpress docs are. What am I doing wrong. My server has a linux system and is using apache too. Help! anna http://www.green-talk.com
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Anna Hackman Reply:
December 14th, 2007 at 1:57 am
Keith-I realized what is the problem. The little boxes to put in your information are really tiny in my install. In addition, it will only let me put 3 digits of my password when my password is at least 9 digits long. did I get a corrupt install. Does anyone have very small boxes to include their ftp info in? anna http://www.green-talk.com
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Roger Knight
December 10th, 2007 at 5:50 pm #
Astonishingly easy. I have been putting off the upgrade to 2.3.1 as it felt too scary to attempt. Found out about this plugin and took courage in both hands and did the upgrade. It was quick, easy, straightforward and it worked without a hitch. Thank you.
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Will
December 14th, 2007 at 6:22 pm #
Anna – I don’t know specifically about your display problem, but could you change your password to 3 digits just for the upgrade process, then change it back? I don’t know if 3 is too short to be allowed, but you could try.
I don’t think this plugin is supported any longer. The author has not been here in this comment thread since early September. I hope he is OK, but that is an occasional problem with the internet. If something happens to a person with a presence on the web, they often just disappear without a trace, leaving their fans to wonder what happened.
This plugin seems to be a miracle for the majority of people, but some of can’t use it without major errors. I don’t think anyone has ever uncovered the source of those errors.
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Rivermaya Reply:
December 15th, 2007 at 8:34 am
If Keith not here, who’s moderate these comments ? :)
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Anna
December 14th, 2007 at 10:14 pm #
Hi Will-the plug-in does not work in my IE 7 but does in firefox. However, I can’t get past the maintenance intializing part. It fails to initialize the maintenance program. I don’t know how to work around this.
I did see an earlier comment from an author that he too had the same problem and moved his index.php into his root wp files. I noticed that my index,php file is in 2 different places. One is in root file and a different index.php is where the wp/content, etc files are. Could this be the problem. Plus when the plug-in backs up, the index.php file is blank inside.
Any suggestion anyone?
PS Keith, are you okay? You are usually pretty responsive and I am just a little concerned. Even if you don’t have time to help us, can you at least tell you are okay and busy? anna http://www.green-talk.com
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Keith Dsouza
December 15th, 2007 at 1:25 pm #
Hey people I am here and alive and doing good too. The problem is that I have hit a block with the issue Anna has and have been quite busy to really sit and look at it. But nevertheless I will be definitely solving this issue as many users are facing it.
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Will
December 16th, 2007 at 6:00 pm #
Well that is great that Keith is alive and well! I don’t know about Anna’s display issue, but the problem I have is the one that Keith posted about in another thread on this plugin. He had acknowledged that the plugin crashes on a certain number of installations, but there has been no conclusion why this is. I can’t find that post now, but if I do, I’ll link to it here. hopefully it will eventually get resolved. This plugin is so highly praised by those who it works for, the rest of us are really jealous!
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John
December 24th, 2007 at 6:43 pm #
Nice, it worked with no problems. Thanks so much.
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Anna
December 25th, 2007 at 12:42 pm #
Hi everyone. Happy holidays. I figured out what was the problem with my site being unable to get past the maintenance mode. I had to get my server to give me permission. I talked to my host (aiso.net-who is the best and solar too!) and he did something and voila, it worked like a dream!
One thing I want to warn everyone about is you lose alot of your incoming links because WP changed the way it brings in links. All your links from technorati disappear and you have to get a plug-in to bring them back in. So, don’t panic when you don’t see the links.
This is an amazing plug-in, Keith!
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colbert
December 30th, 2007 at 3:05 am #
I just upgraded to WP 2.3.2 – works like a charm. Thanks!
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Manu
January 1st, 2008 at 1:32 pm #
I’ve tried upgrading my WordPress installation with almost all previous versions of WPAU, but have not succeeded. After specifying my FTP details, clicking “Let’s Go” a;; I get is thew WordPress dashboard followed by a blank page.
To fix this, I’ve tried different browsers, disabling all extension, and even trying out the upgarde from some other compute,m but it just desn’t work.
Everybody seems to be having no problems using it, so surely the problem is at my end. Would really appreciate any help.
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Will Reply:
January 4th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Manu – Don’t feel lonely. The plugin does not work for some of us. I have never been able to figure out why in my case, although I am pretty sure it is related to having WordPress installed in its own subdirectory off root. I have communicated with several others with the same kind of install where it does not work. We are in the minority, though. The author of the plugin tried to track down the problem several months ago, but was not successful. So for now at least we can do it the manual way even if it is a pain in the#&*@!
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Manu Reply:
April 14th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
I finally got the plugin to work on my blog, guess what the problem was??? I was using PHP4, the minute I upgraded to PHP5, it started working, hopefully will work for others also.
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Tish
January 1st, 2008 at 8:09 pm #
Wow. That was incredibly easy. Thank you!
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Geoff
January 3rd, 2008 at 8:40 am #
Many thanks for excellent plugin – worked well on first three sites I look after Some confusion at end when reinstalling plugins and updating database. But nothing serious
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Ken
January 18th, 2008 at 1:45 am #
Hi, I tried to use it to upgrade my wordpress but it has this error:
“Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.â€
Therefore the process could not complete near the “Maintenance mode” stage.
Based on the comments, it proved to be a great help to many bloggers but unfortunately not me.
Thanks a lot for this great plugin though.
Ken
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Bong (JB)
January 21st, 2008 at 1:24 am #
I was just about to upgrade to 2.3.2 when it struck me that somebody must’ve wrote a plugin on it. So here I am. Thanks.
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fra
January 21st, 2008 at 7:52 am #
i wanted to thank you for great job i am using it and i am very happy with it but my question is…are you going to leave us by ourself? I mean are you going to support your plugin with other versions or not?
i hope you do!
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Will Reply:
January 23rd, 2008 at 2:16 pm
@fra: Keith did pop in on Dec 15th after an absense since mid September, to say he was alive and well, just busy with other things.
There is an increasing number of people who can’t use the plugin because the process fails along the way. Keith has been unable to fix the issues and the plugin does seem to work for most people. So I think we are stuck with what we have.
Remember that WordPress plugins are not a profit center for the authors. Generally they write them because they enjoy doing it or needed some functionality for themselves that was not already in place. They are then made available to the rest of us to try and use. So we really can’t complain if a plugin does not work for all of us or if it is not readily supported.
Having said that, I stick around this thread because I hope that eventually a fix or new version will come around that enables me to use it. Upgrading WP is an incredible pain in the **&&% the manual way.
The developers of WP really need to make upgrading smooth and easy. But they seem to think things are fine the way they are. Complaints in the WP support forums about the difficult upgrade process are generally met with the suggestion that if you can’t do it quickly the manual “Codex” way you are technically hopeless and belong on WordPress . com.
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fra
January 21st, 2008 at 7:53 am #
I said so because the next wordpress release namely 2.5 is round the corner…
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Keith Dsouza
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:40 pm #
Hi All,
Important Message for those whom WPAU is not working, this is a workaround for those users for whom the plugin does not put the site into maintenance mode.
Try changing all folder permissions to 777 and then running the plugin, once that is done go back and change the file permission to 644.
That’s it I have emailed this solution to many users and it has worked from them.
Keith
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Hendra
January 24th, 2008 at 8:45 pm #
Great plugins!! installed into my blog yesterday, and everything’s works well and smooooooth. Now i don’t need to hassle about this,like will said, pain in the @$$ upgrade things anymore :D
I’ll promote this to everyone i know. even to my hosting admin!!
Thanks a ton Keith!
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Dreamweaver, Flash & Photoshop Tutorial
January 25th, 2008 at 11:44 pm #
Yes, this is totally awesome plugin! this help me a lot and really save my time for upgrading my wordpress.
thanks!
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Dhruva Sagar
January 30th, 2008 at 6:18 am #
Hey this is indeed a cool plugin, i’ve even shared some of my views on my blog about your plugin.
Hey btw, what plugin are you using for your comments? This is really nice representation of plugins.
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Anand
January 31st, 2008 at 12:25 pm #
Hi Keith
could you help me with this problem. I get this error during the backup process:
I presume it to be because the folder name is WAPU and not wordpress-automatic-upgrade, but not sure where to make the change. Can you suggest what I should do?
Thanks
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raffyman
February 4th, 2008 at 5:51 pm #
I wonder how FFS nobody has registered the fact, that this plugin doesn’t put the site back from maintenance mode to production mode.
Now I have my test site (thanks God I was cautious enough not to put it on my production site!) displaying some nice:
“The Site is currently undergoing maintenance, Sorry for the inconvinience
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade Plugin provided by Techie Buzz.â€
Any way to get rid of this?
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Muzica Populara
February 5th, 2008 at 7:56 am #
thank you for your advices, i’m a blogging novice and i love to learn new things about wordpress
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iDude
February 5th, 2008 at 9:31 pm #
Great plugin! Worked perfectly on my server…
I’m running my blog (http://www.idude.org) on Abyss X2 Webserver on Windows 2003 server. No problems whatsoever.
Keep up the excellent work
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Jeff
February 6th, 2008 at 11:15 am #
Keith,
If we theoretically change all of our folder permissions to 777, and then do the update, and change the permissions back to 644, will this fix the problem for the future of having to change folder permissions on the server? Or will this have to be done every time we do an “automatic” backup?
I tried some of my folders, I have to do it one by one in Dreamweaver through the ftp window remotely. I did all of the upper level folders and nothing, then tried wp-admin and wp-includes with all of the first level deep folders, and still nothing. I was kind of hoping to not have to change every single folder, each time I do an upgrade. It would be simpler to just upload the new files and do the upgrade manually.
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Nicola
February 8th, 2008 at 1:59 am #
Hello :)
I am wondering if the plugin could work with internationalized versions of WordPress…
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David Bradley
February 8th, 2008 at 10:45 am #
I really wasn’t looking forward to upgrading Wordpress on my main site, it had been soooo stable in version 2.1.3 for soooo long, but I just knew it had to be done. I heard about this plugin from WayneLiew.com and figured it would be the easiest approach. There were one or two issues regarding outdated plugins but WPAU itself worked like a treat – read about the problems and solutions here
db
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Blogetition
February 9th, 2008 at 12:47 am #
Great plugin, enjoy the $5 tip I just sent ya.
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fra
February 12th, 2008 at 4:00 am #
hi there,
wordpress will undergo a really major change with the new version 2.5…do you think there will be any issue with your plugin? will it still be compatible? can you reply??
thanks!
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Tom Johnson Reply:
February 16th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Every time I upgrade my Wordpress site and I use this plugin, I remember how thankful I am for it and how much I appreciate it. It really should be added to the WordPress core.
Thanks,
Tom
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fazamania. Reply:
February 22nd, 2008 at 6:15 am
hello..
What should i do with this error ?
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
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Göran Lindgren Reply:
July 20th, 2008 at 9:37 am
I like many others are using a budget web hotel which runs safe mode and will not change it. This means we acnnot use this plugin?
Sean
February 21st, 2008 at 10:56 pm #
Hi, Great plugin!
Having a problem though, I get a blank screen after the plugins deactivation step and before the installation files upgrade step. Any thoughts?
Thanks!
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Ian Smith Reply:
March 4th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Hi Sean, I get a blank screen at step 3 after clicking Let’s Go trying to get the latest installation from Wordpress. I’m lost. I rely on this great plugin. I completed 2.3.2 for my other blog a few weeks ago, but this blog just stops at 3.
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Ian Smith Reply:
March 5th, 2008 at 8:35 am
I get a blank screen as well, Sean, after clicking Let’s Go to get the new WP installation from Wordpress.
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Robby
February 29th, 2008 at 4:45 pm #
You say that this puts the site into maintenance mode. Does this mean that I need the maintenance plugin, too?
–Robby
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xaer8
March 3rd, 2008 at 8:38 pm #
It is one of the best plugin ever. Makes all automatically upgraded. Try it.
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Jennifer
March 5th, 2008 at 6:28 am #
Thanks so much for this. It is absolutely superb!
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Cynthia Armistead
March 7th, 2008 at 12:34 am #
What a great idea! I maintain a bunch of different WP installations, and every time there’s an update it is a major pain to update every one of them.
One of the plugins we use on most of the sites requires that one file be placed in the WP-Admin directory. There’s another upgrade plugin (instant upgrade? something like that) which I tried that always deletes that file with the old WP files. What will happen to that file using your plugin?
Thanks! :-)
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Mobile Phone Portal
March 12th, 2008 at 4:48 am #
This is awesome plugin dude. I tried it and succesfully upgrade my wordpress to the latest version. Thanks.
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Glenn Dixon
March 16th, 2008 at 8:40 am #
Every time I see a new WP update, especially one that is deemed urgent for security purposes, I start searching for a new blog software. That’s how much I hate having to FTP up and down and do all the steps that WP requires to update my four WP blogs. This plugin just made that issue disappear. If WP doesn’t make this plugin a standard part of their next release they are idiots.
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Micajah
March 27th, 2008 at 10:10 am #
Unfortunately, this doesn’t work on my system because the plugin isn’t allowed access to write to root (which it does, just prior to entering “Maintenance Mode”). That’s where I’m failing, sadly.
On my home machine though, this works beautifully. Just my hosting company (doteasy.com) won’t allow root access. :(
Great tool, especially if you can get root access!
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Thew
March 28th, 2008 at 5:58 pm #
Yuck, I used this plugin and it downgraded me from 2.5 RC1 to 2.3. Not only that, a bunch of things aren’t working now and I’m getting all sorts of database errors.
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Keith Dsouza Reply:
March 29th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Thew this plugin downloads the latest version whichever is available in your case since you had manually upgraded to 2.5 it would downgrade you since at the time the official release was 2.3 its not a bug its how the plugin should actually perform.
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Christopher
March 28th, 2008 at 8:34 pm #
hi,
1. Will this plugin update WordPress-MU?
2. Will it upgrade an install of WordPress to the 2.5 version once released?
Thank you
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Keith Dsouza Reply:
March 29th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Christopher yes this plugin works for 2.5 release I just upgraded the blog to 2.5 using the plugin.
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Thew Reply:
March 29th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Sorry, I wish it did upgrade to 2.5, but the instructions at the top of the page even say that it will not upgrade to a Release Candidate. You must be mistaken Keith, or edited the .8 version in order to upload your own files.
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Glenn Dixon Reply:
March 29th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Thew – who said anything about a release candidate?
WP 2.5 is out!
I just upgraded with the automatic plugin – worked *flawlessly*!
Christopher Reply:
March 29th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
thanks. Will it also upgrade WordPress-MU to newer versions when released?
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Christopher
March 29th, 2008 at 12:46 pm #
Hi, I was able to upgrade from 2.3.3 to 2.5 on a normal WP blog. It didn’t reenable my plugins though when I clicked on that option.
The plugin has a conflict with the plugin upgrade feature that comes with 2.5. I had to disable your plugin for that to work. It looks like they’re both calling the same function and the plugin upgrade doesn’t like that.
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Glenn Dixon Reply:
March 29th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
I can verify what Christopher just said.
I upgraded from 2.3.3 to 2.5 – while the plugins were re-enabled automatically, I could not run the built-in plugin updater – it failed at unpacking on every one. As soon as I deactivated your plugin, the 2.5 built-in plugin updater worked.
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Keith Dsouza
March 29th, 2008 at 1:00 pm #
Thanks Chirstopher and Glenn I found the error fix on its way, update the plugin after deactivating it first when you see a update option for WPAU Cheers.
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Thew
March 29th, 2008 at 9:47 pm #
You are right, since the 2.5 final just came out, I hadn’t realized people were upgrading to it. I just tried it and it works fine. Well, the upgrade does at least. 2.5 is still buggy, so until they fix the media problem, I’ll be using 2.5 RC1.
If anyone wants to know what the bug is, whenever I upload an image or look at the gallery, none of the image previews show.
And while I’m conplaining, I’d like to add that the Spam protection field is annoying. I forget to input the sum, so when I hit submit an had to click back, I lost everything I had typed.
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Chris Merriman
March 30th, 2008 at 4:35 am #
It would appear that there is a problem with this plugin and the final WP2.5 – I almost completed the process (manual version), however I was signed out of the admin dashboard before your plugin could complete the clean up procedure. The WP upgrade itself appears to have been fully successful, and upon resigning into Wordpress, I was able to go to Manage>Automatic Upgrade and complete the clean up process from there. There is the possibility that something else caused this issue – happy to help out if I can.
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Geek Mother
March 30th, 2008 at 7:41 am #
I have just manually upgraded to 2.5 and wish to install this plugin. I have read the above posts and am a little confused over the current state of play. can I use the plugin to verify that my manual upgrade worked OK?
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Frank
March 30th, 2008 at 8:01 am #
I used WPAU to upgrade a test site from ver. 2.0.1 and another from ver. 2.2.1, both on the same host, and WPAU worked fine except the pre-processing backups were useless. However, the post-processing BUs were just fine. I then tried AU on another test site, on a different host, upgrading from ver. 2.3.2 and it worked as well except the pre-processing BU problem persisted. But again, the post-processing BUs were OK.
Great job, and thanks!
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Geek Mother
March 30th, 2008 at 8:13 am #
Downloaded the plugin and all seems to have gone well with the 2.5 version. I have WP installed in a subdirectory but displaying from the root address because I want my blog homepage to be different from the directory where I installed WordPress. I noticesd that some of the links in the plugin admin point at the root rather than the subdirectory – also, maintenance mode still left the root visible – I hope this makes sense.
No real problems though – very useful plugin.
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Holly
March 30th, 2008 at 11:52 pm #
This may be an ignorant user question, but after specifying my FTP information, the downloaded wpau-files-bak-xxxx.zip file was blank. Obviously I set my settings incorrectly, but I can’t figure out how to reset my FTP information. (I think the problem is in the location – the wp subdirectories are present in the \httpdocs folder — any idea what I should specify as the FTP WP location?). Thanks!
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diditho
March 31st, 2008 at 7:19 am #
working smoothly upgrading myblog to WP 2.5. Thankyou.
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Marcos A.T. Silva
March 31st, 2008 at 7:48 am #
Thank you! :)
I have updated my WordPress from 2.3.3 to 2.5 using your plugin, and it worked very fine.
Regards.
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Free WordPress Themes
March 31st, 2008 at 10:30 pm #
Thanks for plugin. It works flawlessly great with my upgrade to 2.5. Keep up the good work.
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Raul Reply:
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:01 pm
I have a serious problem with the upgrade to Wordpress 2.5
The upgrade process seems fine, but after the process finishes, my blog index shows the message “500 Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request”
The administration pages works fine…
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Posao
April 3rd, 2008 at 5:52 pm #
Hey THX for the tip. I must to try this plugin ;)
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john a
April 4th, 2008 at 1:25 am #
I think I ran into a very serious error here.
WordPress database error: [Table 'abc_zy.wp_categories' doesn't exist]
SELECT * FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_ID
WordPress database error: [Table 'abc_zy.wp_post2cat' doesn't exist]
SELECT post_id, category_id FROM wp_post2cat GROUP BY post_id, category_id
WordPress database error: [Table 'abc_zy.wp_linkcategories' doesn't exist]
SELECT cat_id, cat_name FROM wp_linkcategories
Upgrade Complete
Your WordPress database has been successfully upgraded!
Now, ALL my pages are posts and my posts are posts.
Now the tedious task… lucky the site is pretty small ;-)
I was upgrading from a manually updated WP2.5, to WP2.5.
I will be glad to give you more info…
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Landis
April 4th, 2008 at 8:18 am #
I get a fatal error and it will not activate the auto update from my administrative panel.
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Summer
April 4th, 2008 at 9:48 am #
I’m trying to upgrade my blog to 2.5, and at the suggestion of the WP guys, used the Maintenance Mode plugin. Now, when I try to get to the wp-admin upgrade page, I still get the Maintenance Mode page. I can’t get around it to log back into wp-admin. How can I manually get past Maintenance Mode to login so I can finish the upgrade?
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fra
April 5th, 2008 at 7:17 am #
like Chris Merriman i was cut out from the final upgrade process. the upgrade went well but i could reach the step where all the backup files get deleted. apart from this i also couldnt ativate the plugins with the button “activate all plugin” I had to do it manually. after that the “activate all plugin” in wordpress worked again…i hope you guys can fix it…anyway it went well…just this two little flaws
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fra
April 5th, 2008 at 7:18 am #
i meant :… the upgrade went well but i could NOT reach the step where…
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Dan
April 5th, 2008 at 5:45 pm #
Hi I have used the automatic upgrader to go from version 2.3.3 to 2.5 .and tested it a few times before using it on my established sites.
And it worked great….BUT! One of the features ; the batch or multiple image file upload doesnt work in the upgrade (button doesnt even appear! but in the straight up, new install of 2.5 the feature is available. Any help greatly appreciated folks
Dan
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chris
April 7th, 2008 at 1:25 am #
I have the same problem. During the last steps i got log out. I had to log in again and I was on the “manage” section. I then went to the plugin area and all plugin where deactivated but the automatic plugin. I then went to the automatic plugin option and i finished the last steps. anyway the whole process was successful
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Chris Masse
April 7th, 2008 at 11:14 am #
Great plugin. Thanks a lot. However, any author has access to it (in the “manage” menu. It should be accessible only to the administrator.
Bye bye
Chris Masse
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Gewinnspiele-Box
April 7th, 2008 at 1:28 pm #
Great work. It makes wordpress life really simple, thanks.
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Merci
April 9th, 2008 at 12:04 am #
Thank you for this plugin. I was able to upgrade my friend’s WordPress 2.3 installation to WP 2.5 hosted on GoDaddy using WPAU 0.8 version VERY EASILY. I backed up the XML and SQL even before the upgrade, just in case anything went wrong. Thank you everything went smoothly!
Cheers.
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Sandy
April 10th, 2008 at 1:38 am #
wowie! thanks a lot! it worked without a hitch
my word press update, ooops i mean WPress, or is it Word-press <—not politically correct (giggles) i am so surprised someone (ahmmm) didn’t notice you spelled “inconvenience” wrong for the maintenance mode page lol
seriously, i’m too grateful to nitpik ;) again,thank you very much! i have never updated before, now i can do it :) plus i couldn’t believe how fast it was.
p.s. i do have a dumb question, are we supposed to deactivate the plug-in afterwards?
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tkrin
April 11th, 2008 at 10:54 pm #
Worked flawlessly for me going from 2.3.3. to 2.5. Excellent work!
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poonam
April 12th, 2008 at 5:06 am #
Wow …
what a plugin…
gr88…
thanks a ton…
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Estebandido
April 16th, 2008 at 6:46 pm #
Hi there
I have just used ur plugin, works fine, but when I tried to create a new post and give a click over the icon link the window appeared but nothing on it
Also when I try to insert an image the small windowd apperead but nothing on it.
Any idea why?
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Uli_NYC
April 20th, 2008 at 9:24 am #
Does the automatic upgrade touch other directories that may reside in the root directory?
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scribu
April 25th, 2008 at 2:11 pm #
Hy, I have succesfully used your plugin several times, but every time I noticed that the link to the database upgrade is generated using the site url, instead of the wordpress instalation (wpurl).
Please correct this and thanks for great plugin. :)
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tom johnson
April 26th, 2008 at 11:29 am #
Something seems wrong with the plugin. When I get to the step about upgrading my database, I click Upgrade Database, and then Continue. After I do that, it forces me to log in again, and it doesn’t remember where I was in the upgrade process. I see a msg that says “Are you sure you want to do that? Please try again.” When I exit these, it doesn’t reactivate my plugins, nor clean up the ugradation files, whatever those are.
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T. Zybura Reply:
April 28th, 2008 at 4:58 am
Same here. :/
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Marcos A.T. Silva
April 26th, 2008 at 11:38 am #
Same here. :)
I have logged in again, and my wordpress shows the 2.5.1 version code, but I don’t know if it was upgraded correctly. :(
I had to activate mannualy each plugin.
So, how can we have total certainty that all working fine, now? :)
Regards.
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Niklas Reply:
April 29th, 2008 at 6:54 am
I have just tried your great plugin on my site, and experienced the same problems as Tom Johnson and Marcos A.T. Silva just above my comment; I upgraded from WordPress v2.5.
Thanks a lot for your plugin, even though it doesn’t quite seem to go all the way! I’m very grateful for getting most of the upgrading-job done for me, I must say.
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Andy
April 27th, 2008 at 6:06 am #
Obama said that he was referring to politicians, not to anyone wearing a flag pin. Reading what he said “then,” there is nothing to contradict his later statement. He didn’t specify politicians or people in general, so his later interpretation is not a contradiction. He says people are liars who say his words applied to people in general. Well, unless you are a mind-reader, based on his clarification you jumped to a conclusion and became a liar in the process.
You can disagree, but this post (despite all the people agreeing with you), is simply writing to the choir (including Glen Reynolds who loves this stuff). People hear what they want to hear, including your audience who love agreeing with you on this so much because it saves having to think for themselves.
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Andy
April 27th, 2008 at 6:08 am #
Doh! Please disregard my last comment (it was intended for a whacko political blogger but posted here by mistake…)
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ALexMaureira
April 27th, 2008 at 9:37 am #
Great plug in ,my friend,but, it didnt work, because a message of error was displayed: ERROR -> Could not put the site into maintenance mode !
I sent to you already the “log” to find the debug.If you can help me , I would appreciate it . I am trying to upgrade from 2.5.0 to 2.5.1..
thank you.
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Al Gallia
April 27th, 2008 at 10:05 am #
I just installed the v1.1 plugin on WP 2.5 and am trying to upgrade to WP 2.5.1 using the plugin.
Problem: The first backup .zip was downloaded to my hard drive. But when I try to unzip it, I get a Windows popup that say Windows blocked the unzip attempt. Properties for the wpau-files-bak-wipErGjr.zip file do not include an “block” flag to uncheck. Please advise. Any comments appreciated. Thanks.
Note: I am using latest Windows XP Home, SP2.
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Germz
April 27th, 2008 at 6:03 pm #
GREAT plugin! This is beautiful. It saved me lots of time. I really appreciate this plugin and it’s most definitely one of the best ever made. You should receive an award. Thank you very much!
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sanjeev
April 28th, 2008 at 2:48 am #
I’m a novice, this saved me so much time! Thanks for making your work available to us.
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DazBlade
April 28th, 2008 at 4:09 pm #
Wordpress automatic upgrade
Upgrades your wordpress installation automatically
TASK OUTPUT
TASK STATUS
We conducted some preliminary checks on your server. Below is the outputGreat the preliminiary checks of your server is complete and WPAU is ready to roll. Click here so that we can start the upgrade.
You may also choose the automated version.
It does not work. Whichever link I click on, nothing happens and WP is not upgraded. Its a shame as it seemed a good idea. It could be my webhost that is the problem but permissions up to 755 are allowed I’m not convinced that is the case. To be honest, as the code is written in PHP, which is not platform dependent then the compatibility should be far higher. The simply put, the problem is either file permissions or the underlying code and I’m afraid I’m inclined to believe it is the code. Hope you can fix it in a later release as this plugin is great idea, it just needs to work for everyone and just a few.
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DazBlade
April 28th, 2008 at 4:18 pm #
Wordpress automatic upgrade
Upgrades your wordpress installation automatically
TASK OUTPUT
TASK STATUS
We conducted some preliminary checks on your server. Below is the outputGreat the preliminiary checks of your server is complete and WPAU is ready to roll. Click here so that we can start the upgrade.
You may also choose the automated version.
It does not work. Whichever link I click on, nothing happens and WP is not upgraded. Its a shame as it seemed a good idea. It could be my webhost that is the problem but permissions up to 755 are allowed I’m not convinced that is the case. To be honest, as the code is written in PHP, which is not platform dependent then the compatibility should be far higher. The simply put, the problem is either file permissions or the underlying code and I’m afraid I’m inclined to believe it is the code. Hope you can fix it in a later release as this plugin is great idea, it just needs to work for everyone and just a few.
Also, just an observation but I note you are selective on who you answer when a problem is raised. I appreciate that you may be busy and have a life outside this blog but if someone raises a query then you should really answer it, even if it is only to say that you are investigating the issue.
Other than that, I sincerely hope you can make this plugin more compatible as I for one would certainly like to use it. =;-)
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Nelson
April 29th, 2008 at 1:00 am #
I can’t upgrade to 2.5.1! It used to do so smoothly in the previous versions. Don’t know what’s up.
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mark
April 29th, 2008 at 6:33 am #
the same here. I was logged out during the upgrade. when i logged in again my blog was updated to wp2.5.1. Anyway i had to active all the plugin manually…can the maker of this excellent plugin help us all??? thanks
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Johan
April 29th, 2008 at 11:14 am #
Worked like a charm for me. I’ve upgraded from 2.3.3 to 2.5.1.
The only issue I’ve had was that I had to reactivate all my plugins manually.
I’m pretty sure this was my own fault since I’ve clicked “Continue” on the external upgrade link (with the WP logo i think?!).
Excellent plugin! Thanks a bunch mate ;)
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Gary Ooi
April 29th, 2008 at 11:23 am #
I’ve used it today to upgrade to Wordpress 2.5.1 and it worked flawlessly! Nice. Thanks for the plugin!
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joe
April 29th, 2008 at 3:59 pm #
i have the same issue as well, i was log out and i had to log in again. all my plugins were disabled and i had to activate them manually since the “activate all” didnt work. the upgrade seems to have gone through but i think this is a bug. when i log in again i was in the manage section and there was this message “Are you sure you want to do that? Please try again.â€
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Milan
April 29th, 2008 at 4:18 pm #
Great plugin… seems like something that the Wordpress.org folks might want to get involved with. Because each update is different it would help if they tested the update plugin with each new release before it came out instead of afterwards.
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tracy
April 29th, 2008 at 9:26 pm #
I just installed and used the plugin and thought it was easy to use – great! Until I went to save a post and was greeted with this message:
Not Acceptable
An appropriate representation of the requested resource /wp-admin/post.php could not be found on this server.
Apache/1.3.41 Server at leadingfromtheheart.org Port 80
Uh Oh…I now have a blog that I cannot post to! Any suggestions?
I upgraded from 2.5 to 2.5.1
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tracy
April 29th, 2008 at 9:42 pm #
A point of clarification…apparently I can add a new post, just can not edit any of my old posts…not good since I need to!
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Phill Deese
April 29th, 2008 at 11:03 pm #
One bug I got was it didn’t reactivate any of the plugins, not even the default ones but otherwise it was all good for upgrading 2.5.1
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sab
April 30th, 2008 at 10:19 am #
Great plugin. I have just started using wordpress after a few years of learning how to build a site from scratch. What a world of difference and it is plugins like this one that make it so much easier for us midlevel web adminstrators.
Great coding – you guys are geniuses as far as I am concerned – just one note though. The layout and functions of the plugin intergrate seamlessly with the system (if everything works out that is – it did for me) – just keep in mind that the feedback on the screen and the content we humans read also has to intergrate seamlessly with our limited understanding (we are not all great web admins out here).
To sum it up – I think I would like to see instruction sets and directions and notices more plainly for people to see and more straightforward so that a 10 year can understand.
Keep up the great work.
Sab
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bob
April 30th, 2008 at 11:41 am #
Excellent, just upgraded from 2.5 to 2.5.1 using the manual option.
Only glitch was that I had to do it twice.
First time I was logged out after upgrading the database.
Ran it again and it cleaned up the previous install and started again.
Second time through was not logged out and it completed successfully.
2.5 > 2.5.1 in 10 mins :)
Thanks
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Aaron
May 1st, 2008 at 1:22 am #
Hi,
I used this plugin to upgrade to Wordpress 2.5 flawlessly but when I opened up my admin I saw there was another Wordpress upgrade, so I went through the upgrade process the same as before and now my blog is not working properly anymore.
I am getting the following error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function akpc_most_popular() in /home/globalc9/public_html/blog/wp-content/themes/default/header.php on line 153
You can see the blog here:
http://www.globalchef.com.au/blog/
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Aaron
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Keith Dsouza Reply:
May 6th, 2008 at 1:17 am
This is a issue with a different plugin, please check out the plugin site for more details for compatibility with WordPress 2.5 and above
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Dali
May 1st, 2008 at 7:08 am #
It is indeed one of the most usefull plugins I’ve ever seen! :-)
Great job, en thx a lot!
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Hanush
May 1st, 2008 at 9:58 am #
Ping back
http://designerzweb.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/automatically-updateupgrade-wordpress/
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Tony
May 2nd, 2008 at 12:10 am #
Hi
I tried to upgrade version 1.5 but got the error
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: current_user_can() in /home/fitness/public_html/paralegalcoursesonline/alerts/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php on line 629
Is there a way around this?
Thanks
Tony
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phil
May 2nd, 2008 at 5:26 am #
Great plugin, thanks very much. Smooth (and safe) update from 1.8.3 (I think) to 2.5.1.
Phil
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michael soriano
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:30 pm #
amazing plug in! good work.
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Christopher
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:30 am #
I hope you can make a version of this plugin for wordpress-mu.
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chris
May 3rd, 2008 at 3:42 pm #
I must be doing something wrong, I only get the message: Oops!!!!! We are unable to connect to the ftp site with the data your provided, could you cross check and give us the data again
I’ve checked again and again, but it doesn’t work…
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Steve
May 4th, 2008 at 7:13 am #
Just wanted to let you know that I tested your plugin and was impressed! It worked the way it should in all aspects. I am glad to see this plugin because I maintain a couple of sites for people and they have no idea how to upgrade their sites. Thanks
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Derek Huizinga
May 4th, 2008 at 7:38 am #
I just tried upgrading from 2.02 and the plug-in showed on my admin panel…but when I clicked “activate” everything went blank.
Now when you go to my blog at: http://www.jumpstartenergy.com/blog, you can view the index page but most of the stand-alone post pages come up blank and so does my admin panel.
I need HELP; any solutions?
-Derek
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kjell
May 5th, 2008 at 5:24 am #
Great plugin!
Some suggestions for future versions:
1. Keep the latest.zip file after each backup and do a compare with current latest.zip from wordpress.org before starting the backup. Ie, if no upgrade is needed then say so to the user, then the user can choose to upgrade anyway.
Ideally it would just check the version number between itself and what wordpress.org currently has. If you aim at integration it should be no problem to have the wordpress core team start adding a small text file with the current version number. I think that would be more effective than having to compare the .zip files themselves.
2. Further automation so the plugin can be run by cron.
My ideal setup would be that the plugin is run daily to check if a new version is available (as per 1. above) and then automatically upgrade if required. Upgrade database and re-activate plugins.
The documentation should recommend the user to test manually before such automation is setup. And be advised about the risks of fully automated backup.
Oh… and lastly, I’d recommend setting up an http://dev.wp-plugins.org/ or googlecode account to make it easier for people to submit tickets and troubles. Plus for you and others to keep track on what happens.
cheers,
-kjell
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Sinma
May 7th, 2008 at 4:29 pm #
Hi, I just tried installing the plugin but failed at step 7. I think it ran into some issues with bbpress.
My wp site now reads:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare get_tag() (previously declared in /home/learn2/public_html/community/wp-includes/category.php:139) in /home/learn2/public_html/community/bb/bb-includes/functions.php on line 1452
I’m not a techie so any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks heaps!
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prash
May 9th, 2008 at 1:54 pm #
WOW!
For a couple of years I resisted upgrading out of fear of corrupting something. Today, I said what the heck and when I went to wordpress.org I was directed to this site.
5 minutes later, I went from 2.0.2 to 2.5.1.
You truly rock!
-prash.
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Tanady
May 9th, 2008 at 4:48 pm #
Hello Keith,
Thanks so much for the perfect WP update plugins.
This is so Awesome!
Step by step showing what to do next.
Just like a baby-sitting. Haha.. jk.. :)
Again, thank you so much for the hardwork!
Sincerely,
Tanady
PS. I was doubt before that I never update my WP.
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Jeff
May 11th, 2008 at 4:54 pm #
Great plugin – thank you! Works nearly perfectly
The only thing wrong is that is fails to reactivate plugins. It seems to get caught in a “try again” loop, until it finds it’s in the middle of an upgrade and thinks it shouldn’t be.
It also removes important plug-in files that are not in the plugin folder.
Both of those are easily worked around, though.
Thanks!
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Mark LaFlamme
May 12th, 2008 at 12:09 am #
Totally didn’t work for me and no help forthcoming. What did work was this:
http://www.zirona.com/software/wordpress-instant-upgrade/
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Chas Reply:
May 12th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Last time I tried it, the plugin got stuck with 2.5.1.
2.5.1 would not automatically load.
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Tim Turner Reply:
May 12th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Has anyone else tried this Instant Plug In? Perhaps I could get it to work since I can’t get the Auto Upgrade Plug In to work.
Thanks
Tim
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Adrian
May 13th, 2008 at 7:07 pm #
I get this error on two different servers, different hosts?
Task Log: ERROR -> Could not read either the source directory /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs//wpau-backup/wordpress/wp-admin or the traget directory /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/wp-admin
ERROR -> Could not read either the source directory /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs//wpau-backup/wordpress/wp-includes or the traget directory /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/wp-includes
I think it’s adding double forward slashes? i.e “httpdocs//wpau-backup”
domain.com is just aliased for this post.
Any insight?
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Stef
May 14th, 2008 at 12:03 am #
Hi there,
looks like a great plugin. I hate these CMS upgrades…
But there seems to be a problem, probably due to some permission settings. Already I wonder, if one has to indicate in the FTP settings as path the one one is seeing generally: something like /www/my_blog, or the one the server is internally using, which looks like: /is/htdocs/wp1010529_VVSEGYPQJL/www/my_blog
Now, in the first case I get the following error:
Warning: ftp_rawlist() [function.ftp-rawlist]: Unable to create temporary file. Check permissions in temporary files directory. in /is/htdocs/wp1010529_VVSEGYPQJL/www/photo_blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 206
Warning: ftp_rawlist() [function.ftp-rawlist]: Unable to create temporary file. Check permissions in temporary files directory. in /is/htdocs/wp1010529_VVSEGYPQJL/www/photo_blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 206
Warning: ftp_rawlist() [function.ftp-rawlist]: Unable to create temporary file. Check permissions in temporary files directory. in /is/htdocs/wp1010529_VVSEGYPQJL/www/photo_blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 206
In the second case I get this:
Warning: ftp_site() [function.ftp-site]: /is/htdocs/wp1010529_VVSEGYPQJL/www/photo_blog: No such file or directory in /is/htdocs/wp1010529_VVSEGYPQJL/www/photo_blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 168
Warning: ftp_chdir() [function.ftp-chdir]: //is/htdocs/wp1010529_VVSEGYPQJL/www/photo_blog: No such file or directory in /is/htdocs/wp1010529_VVSEGYPQJL/www/photo_blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 205
Warning: ftp_rawlist() [function.ftp-rawlist]: Unable to create temporary file. Check permissions in temporary files directory. in /is/htdocs/wp1010529_VVSEGYPQJL/www/photo_blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 206
Warning: ftp_chdir() [function.ftp-chdir]: //is/htdocs/wp1010529_VVSEGYPQJL/www/photo_blog/wp-admin: No such file or directory in /is/htdocs/wp1010529_VVSEGYPQJL/www/photo_blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 205
Warning: ftp_rawlist() [function.ftp-rawlist]: Unable to create temporary file. Check permissions in temporary files directory. in /is/htdocs/wp1010529_VVSEGYPQJL/www/photo_blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 206
Warning: ftp_chdir() [function.ftp-chdir]: //is/htdocs/wp1010529_VVSEGYPQJL/www/photo_blog/wp-includes: No such file or directory in /is/htdocs/wp1010529_VVSEGYPQJL/www/photo_blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 205
Warning: ftp_rawlist() [function.ftp-rawlist]: Unable to create temporary file. Check permissions in temporary files directory. in /is/htdocs/wp1010529_VVSEGYPQJL/www/photo_blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 206
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Chas
May 14th, 2008 at 5:07 am #
I’ve had good success with manual upgrades on 7 sites.
All I do is check that my new install has no wp-config file.
Then I transfer the current 2._ wp-config file to the 2.5.1 setup.
Then I delete all the old wordpress from the folder.
Then I transfer the 2.5.1 in either with ftp or with the
file manager at my hosting account.
The new version runs without blinking an eye.
If I don’t have the config file ready, then
2.5.1 will create one from scratch as long as
I know the MYSQL information ahead of time. Just
type in the url and the install questions come up.
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Tim Turner Reply:
May 14th, 2008 at 9:10 am
i still find this confusing, sorry. Do you mean you extract the contents of the new download into a folder on your computer, delete the wp-config files, copy the old wp-config files into the folder to replace the deleted ones, then upload the whole, new WordPress Folder?
Thanks
Tim
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Chas Reply:
May 14th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Yes.
The CONTENTS of the wordpress folder run inside YOUR URL named folder.
Transferring the CONTENTS (25 or so files and folders).
One of those 25 files is the one with connection info.
The wp-config file.
Hang onto that one and clean the rest out.
The config folder connects WP to the MYSQL.
THAT’s where your posts are stored.
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Chas Reply:
May 16th, 2008 at 10:01 am
What I do is put wordpress in a new folder on the files directory in c-panel. Then I shut down all the plugins. Then I delete the old WP files except config. Then I load the new WP in. So an upgrade takes about 4 minutes.
That’s it. Go to the site and it’s already running.
For a wordpress install that kick’s, get an SEO modified version
from Jeff Johnson. It’s got some selfserving links on it, but it is pre-Optimized and already has results tested plug-ins for performance:
http://www.undergroundtraininglab.com/main.php?576033
Davide Benini
May 14th, 2008 at 9:18 am #
For those getting a 500 Internal Server Error: it is probably due to permission setting in the index file or in other wordpress files realted to the homepage. Some providers are very particular about permissions settings. Luckily often they also provide a “repair permission script”, so my advice is to look for such a script in your domain management page. Otherwise, fix the permission manually.
Cheers,
Davide
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Alvaro
May 14th, 2008 at 10:51 am #
Hi,
Great plugin.
Do you think it’s hard to implement this plugin to other language versions of Wordpress? If I, say, have a portuguese version of Wordpress, what would I have to do for this plugin to be installed in that version and work the same way?
Thanks.
Alvaro
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Alvaro
May 14th, 2008 at 11:10 am #
Hi again,
I just found a portuguese plugin for the update.
http://antoniocampos.no-ip.com/wordpress-actualizacao-automatica/
Thanks again.
Alvaro
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Craig Taylor
May 14th, 2008 at 11:20 pm #
I’m not sure what I did wrong, but after entering my FTP info, I clicked Lets Go, and I was immediately taken to my “Sorry no posts matched your criteria” page. I waited, thinking that the plug in was doing something, but nothing happened.
I tried to click on my Admin link and bounced back to the “Sorry no posts matched..” page. I went in with FTP and deleted the WPAU plugin, but still cannot get to my Admin page.
I’m at my wits end. I did a complete manual update, did the database update, but still no Admin pages available.
What would WPAU have done to my site that makes the admin pages unreachable????
I’ve done every previous update manually, and now regret not doing it manually this time!
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Brian Ring Reply:
June 3rd, 2008 at 3:45 am
Craig
did you ever figure out how to fix this?? i am having the same problem.
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Nandan
May 15th, 2008 at 7:17 am #
just did. seemed to work pretty well.
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elhusseiny
May 15th, 2008 at 4:51 pm #
Amazing plugin, thanks mate
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rjmarmol
May 16th, 2008 at 4:50 am #
This is an awesome plugin! Downloaded it just now and finished the upgrade in no time! :) Wow! Thanks for coming up with something as great as this.. Cheers!
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Claire
May 20th, 2008 at 10:31 am #
As I am ready to upgrade my Wordpress, this seems to be the easiest way (as I am not really a programmer :-) and needed sth simple. I provided all the FTP credentials info but the only thing I got is:
Wordpress automatic upgrade
Upgrades your wordpress installation automatically
TASK OUTPUT
TASK STATUS
We conducted some preliminary checks on your server. Below is the outputSeems you have not completed the clean up process from last upgrade. Please click here to run the clean up process before continuing
However, when I click the page only reloads after a while but nothing happens. What am I doing wrong? Please, advise, wiser people :)
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Chas Reply:
May 20th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
There is still a problem with the auto 5.4.1 update on some systems.
#0 Back up your data base.
#1 Shut down all the plugins
#2 Delete every WP file EXCEPT for wp-config.
#3 FTP in all the files included inside the 5.4.1 folder.
#4 Your site is now running.
You can go in through the c-panel and do the same thing.
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Chas Reply:
May 20th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
( sorry 2.5.1 )
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Simon
May 23rd, 2008 at 3:47 am #
Hmmmm. I would have been a great fan of this if it had actually worked!
It thinks it has – it says it has – but it’s left my blog offline (maintainance mode). I’m guessing it’s simply because things haven’t had the permissions modified back to wheat they should be. Simple enough to rectify but scary for the very kinds of people who are going to want to use this plugin!
Simon
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Mike
May 23rd, 2008 at 12:10 pm #
Add me to the list of folks who can’t get past activation of your plug-in. “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.” Why are you keeping mum on the issue? Is there any server info I can provide to help fix this?
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Clive
May 23rd, 2008 at 1:00 pm #
Absolutely fantastic! I’ve been putting this [upgrading to latest WP] off for way too long, years in fact, but recently have found 3 of my 6 blogs ‘infected’ with thousands of Viagra type links in the footer file ( discovered this purely by chance – couldn’t understand why all my Adsense ads were for Viagra and similar in a post about cooking).
TIP FOR YOUR READERS: make sure ‘Anyone can register’ is unticked and go and have a look at your Footer and Header files to be sure you are not unwittingly linking to thousands of bad neighbourhoods! Do it today before Google penalise you!
My blogs go back to WP versions 1.5 (!). and your plugin has saved me! Thank you – I choose the manual option and reactivate the plugins myself – no problem.
I’m donating some well earned bucks for this cool piece of work – well done!
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Certificate of Deposit Rates
May 23rd, 2008 at 5:01 pm #
I just upgraded using the tool. I had been dreading the update, but your tool made it easy. WordPress has a link to the tool from the upgrade page, but it I guess they don’t want to include it yet.
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Buildingbodies
May 24th, 2008 at 12:32 pm #
Thankyou so much for this it saved me a ton of time BUT..your paypal donate button isnt working (paypal may be down also). This is the message I got:
“We are unable to complete your request at this time. Please click Retry or try again later. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Message 3004″
Thought you’d like to know.
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Betty
May 27th, 2008 at 12:22 am #
Yeah………tried many times on a Website Source account and it never works regardless of the permissions I set.
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Lionel
May 27th, 2008 at 12:44 pm #
Thanks for the in-depth explanation, really appreciated. Thanks.
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Benjamin Langlois
May 28th, 2008 at 4:45 pm #
Brilliant plugin, thanks! Just one little ‘glitch’ however; after upgrading my dashboard displayed all plugins as inactive, although the plugin definately did reactivate them. No problem though.
Thanks again.
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Zuhaib
May 30th, 2008 at 5:44 am #
Hi,
I used your plugin to upgrade .. my index.php was in public_html and all the other wp files in public_html/wp folder ..
I specified public_html/wp as my wp root folder .. when I clicked on click here to upgrade .. I got an error saying page not found ..
now I cannot access my admin panel .. please have a look at my website http://www.zuhaib.in and please help me fix the problem.
I am unable to access my admin panel please help!
Zuhaib
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Chas Reply:
June 2nd, 2008 at 7:00 pm
I can fix your files for you.
chuck at cmasterson dot com
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Blindnotes
June 2nd, 2008 at 11:14 am #
I see I’m one of many, but thanks for this man! Great stuff. I was postponing the updates, because I’m not that much of a wizzkid, so this helps me out alot!
Keep up the good (unpayed…) work.
Cheers
J
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Blindnotes Reply:
June 7th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Now I’m not happy anymore. The Automatic Upgrade killed the front-end of another site of mine… The installer “Couldn’t backup the dataabase” and that was that. No more site. I probably have to reinstall. So this Automatic Upgrade seems very handy for the newbies, but reinstalling and getting all your database info back isn’t too newbie. And you should really be able to know how that shit works before you try this plug-in.
Cheers
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Chas Reply:
June 7th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
You would be hard pressed to find upgrade instructions that don’t clearly tell you to back up the database before you try anything. So anyways, just use an older backup of your website and database.
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Mike
June 2nd, 2008 at 11:49 pm #
“Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.â€
I know, it’s so cool to ignore this issue, maybe it’ll just go away, huh?
Given the horror stories others have told on this page, maybe it’s time WordPress reevaluate its recommendation and linkage here. Let’s face the obvious: nightmares unfold for many who stumble onto this allegedly easy upgrade. What bugs me is that WordPress sanctions it? Why?
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Chas Reply:
June 3rd, 2008 at 3:52 am
Maybe because the author is having a hard time keeping up with wordpress revisions?
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Techblissonline Dot Com
June 5th, 2008 at 5:10 am #
This definitely worked very well for me… but may be people had problems way back when it was introduced…now it is really cool…
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Tim Turner Reply:
June 5th, 2008 at 5:31 am
Nope, it still doesn’t work for me and I never received a reply to my submission for HELP.
Tim
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mott
June 9th, 2008 at 5:53 am #
*breathes out with relief*
From a dumb-ass who knows nothing about WP upgrading, I’m glad I found this plugin. Spent the whole day on my ass trying to figure out what .htaccess meant…when I googled this, downloaded it..and it was upgraded in 5 minutes.
THE BIGGEST THANK YOU ALL THE WAY FROM AUSTRALIA!!!!!!!!!
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Josh Kaufman
June 9th, 2008 at 12:14 pm #
i tried using this plugin on an old wordpress install version 1.52 and I get the following error. Any ideas?
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: current_user_can() in /home/cbppfbi0/public_html/dcfpi/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php on line 626
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Kim Haverblad
June 11th, 2008 at 2:33 am #
Great plugin and it hasn’t failed on me yet and I’ve used it now for couple of month.
But, one thing that I find a bit annoying is that the plug-in is not using the database prefix defined during the installation for WordPress – how come? If you’re using shared database you’re actually only able to run one setup of the plug-in – are there any future plans to improve this so that the plug-in uses the db prefix defined by WordPress?
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camani
June 14th, 2008 at 6:07 pm #
Very very cool! Could I manage a manual upgrade? Yep, could’ve. but this was so easy! 2.05 to 2.5 in a few minutes, very little thought process involved. Note, I did test this on my local copy first, with manual backups in place, just to be sure. Thank you much for sharing!
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Richelo Killian
June 16th, 2008 at 6:07 pm #
I am running PHP5 and MySQL 5. It’s my own dedicated server.
WP is 2.3.3. I setup the FTP login info, and all is fine.
I click to proceed, and then get the following error: Oops sorry you are not authorized to do this
Site is still live, BUT, I end up with ALL directories set to 757, which I have to manually go and change back to 755.
Any ideas?
Richelo
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modsaer
June 17th, 2008 at 1:40 pm #
hi
im interested translated this plugin. can i translated?
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Marco
June 27th, 2008 at 2:53 pm #
Very useful, thank you.
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Brent
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:15 pm #
I’m excited to use your automatic Ugrade. I belive I have followed directions and have downloaded your program, unzip the file and loaded the file on my host server wp-content/plugins/director. I have also activated your plug in on Wordpress – but when I go to Manage I do not fine “Automatic Upgrade” but rather “uploads” and under uploads I don’t find a link to your plugin??
Using FTP to compare files I find on my computer “wordpress-automatic-upgrade” file is made up on 9 files and two directories with a total bytes o 116,165 compared to what I have on my host i.e. 9 files and two directories with a total bytes of 112,955. I’ve tried twice to down load onto Host and get only 112,955 bytes of information.
Can you help with this problem?
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William
July 9th, 2008 at 1:50 am #
WARNING- WPAU stores your FTP credentials. I accidently put a trailing slash on my wordpress directory and cannot reset my FTP even after deleting everything Wordpress Automatic Upgrade related. Not sure where this is stored, but there is no information available as to how to change this. Once its in, doesn’t seem like it can be changed.
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online shopping
July 9th, 2008 at 4:05 am #
I agree with the first poster – this is, probably, the best plugin for wordpress ever. This would make upgrades really seamless for me, and no longer a bit of a pain. Only thing is that I need to watch the megabyte ratio –- being in Africa, our broadband is “capped†(meaning, we can only use a certain amount of GB’s a month and if we exceed it we need to pay more to the ISP. Weird, eh? As far as I know, there’s no other country in the world which does so; although, I’m sure there probably are, I know most developed countries don’t do this.).
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ChrisM
July 9th, 2008 at 1:09 pm #
>>Mr. ‘online shopping’ – re. being capped, this plugin will save you downloading and then uploading a new version of wordpress. It is all done locally on your site’s server, rather than involving your home/work PC. Also, you are NOWHERE near alone in being data capped. It happens in Australia, Kazakhstan, Britain and I’m sure other places.
…I agree with the first poster – this is, probably, the best plugin for wordpress ever. This would make upgrades really seamless for me, and no longer a bit of a pain. Only thing is that I need to watch the megabyte ratio –- being in Africa, our broadband is “capped†(meaning, we can only use a certain amount of GB’s a month and if we exceed it we need to pay more to the ISP. Weird, eh? As far as I know, there’s no other country in the world which does so; although, I’m sure there probably are, I know most developed countries don’t do this.).…
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Zach
July 13th, 2008 at 10:43 pm #
AWESOME PLUGIN!!!!! Left me speechless – great stuff. Add a “recovery” feature that works and this will be the best Wordpress plugin bar none.
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Khaled
July 15th, 2008 at 1:50 am #
Thank you guys … you really saved many hours in upgrading my blog manually
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Niklas
July 15th, 2008 at 1:52 am #
Hey there! I just upgraded to WordPress 2.6 with this wonderful plugin, and I want to inform you that I encountered the same issue as per my comment in this page made 2008-04-29; having upgraded the database I have to log into the admin-part again, and the WPAU-page asks me if I want to try to perform the last performed action again – i.e. try and reactivate my plugins – which I do, but I just end up with the same question as mentioned previously. Even if I retry I end up there again, so I end my upgrade in two steps: 1) I manually activate the plugins (which is really easy to do in 2.6) and 2) run WUAU again just to clean up afterwards.
Thanks a lot yet again for the plugin, it’s a major time-saver!
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zegran
July 15th, 2008 at 3:34 am #
Great plugin. Thanks a lot.
http://www.zegran.com
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Gunawan
July 15th, 2008 at 9:42 am #
Good a plugin. So many thanks :)
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Tom Johnson
July 15th, 2008 at 12:05 pm #
Every time I use this plugin, I get some errors at the end, right after I’m prompted to click Continue to complete the final step of the installation, which involves the database upgrade. Right after that, it logs me out of my site and says “Are you sure you want to do this?” I made a little silent recording of what happens. See this 5 min. video: upgrading wordpress.
Right around the 2 min. mark is where things start to go haywire. What am I doing wrong here? Thanks,
Tom
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Keith Dsouza Reply:
July 15th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Tom, this issue has been fixed. Please download the latest version from http://techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade-12-release.html
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julian
July 15th, 2008 at 3:59 pm #
hello,
my name is julian sim.
i’m a new user of wordpress and i had install wordpress 2.5.1 from my hosting site using Fantastico installation. can the plugin allow me to install 2.6 safely? please advise :)
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Iskak
July 16th, 2008 at 9:08 pm #
Cool….
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MartinJ
July 17th, 2008 at 11:59 am #
I upgraded to 2.6 using the Upgrade plugin and everything worked fine (according to the plugin). But in viewing my pages, all my categories are missing. That may not be true. I see a space for each along with the number of posts for each line but the text titles do not show up. They do not appear in the wp-categories page either.
In found no one else with this problem in this comment forum so perhaps it’s not the plugin that’s at fault. I just don’t know where else to go for suggestions on how to get my categories listed again.
Please come to the aid of this techless blogger. Thanks
MartinJ
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Blog for Beginners
July 17th, 2008 at 9:26 pm #
I have been using this plugin with much satisfaction and I wonder what would I do without it.
When I discovered your site I didn’t realize that you are the developer for this awesome plugin and now I know..
Let me just say, “thank you for making it so much easier for us”..
Yan
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Anne Robinson Reply:
July 23rd, 2008 at 11:25 am
Please, please help me! I am new to the whole world of WordPress and I have just launched a new site and used your plug-in to upgrade to 2.6. Now everything has gone. First the site went into maintenance mode and I searched and found your solution at the top of these comments to rename the backup version of index.php. Now I get the message:
Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘./wp-blog-header.php’ (include_path=’.:’) in /home/httpd/vhosts/library-online.org.uk/httpdocs/index.php on line 4
I really don’t know what to do about this as I cannot see the site at all. I only tried to upgrade to 2.6 because I cannot get any images to upload.
I am so fed-up that I might as well go back to the free version on WordPress.com – but I really wanted to try the hosted version.
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Cheryl Hanna
July 21st, 2008 at 7:05 am #
Just magnificent! I’m really glad you took the time to develop this.
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hubbers
July 22nd, 2008 at 5:50 am #
This upgrade tool has caused an issue with my blog. the blog looks okay on the index http://www.hubbers.com/blog/ but the individual entry screen are all coming up “not found” e.g.
http://www.hubbers.com/blog/index.php/royal-ascot-2008/
Have manually uploaded all of the the wp2.6 files again this morning and still have the same issue. Is my db out of sync somehow?
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Oz
July 23rd, 2008 at 8:48 pm #
Hey guys,
I’m running version 2.0.4 right now and back in the day, I moved all my wordpress files to the root directory, so I don’t have http://www.domain.com/wordpress anymore. My blog is setup with domain.com/wp-content.
I tried using the plugin and got the following error. Is this because I don’t have the wordpress folder anymore? Is there any way to get the plugin to work in my scenario?
Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cookie – headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/o/s/l/admin/html/wp-admin/admin-header.php:16) in /home/content/o/s/l/admin/html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php on line 114
Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter – headers already sent (output started at /home/content/o/s/l/admin/html/wp-admin/admin-header.php:16) in /home/content/o/s/l/admin/html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php on line 114
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Bloggero
July 23rd, 2008 at 8:50 pm #
Thanks for this fantastic plugin! I’ve been using it to upgrade my blog tools website.
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Frank Eves
July 24th, 2008 at 5:32 pm #
Brilliant – some of my blogs were significantly out of date (2.1.3). I updated nine blogs without a single problem. I was happy to send Keith a donation.
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Frank Eves Reply:
July 25th, 2008 at 10:55 am
I checked the first blog I updated (2.3.x => 2.6) very carefully and there were no problems. Unfortunately, upon closer inspection, eight blogs (2.13 => 2.6) lost all category titles. The category counts are there, but not the titles. It appears that MartinJ experienced a similar problem 20080717.
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Frank Eves Reply:
July 25th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
The loss of category titles is a WordPress 2.6 problem not a Wordpress Automatic Upgrade Plugin problem. David Cumps identified a bug in the 2.6 upgrade script that deletes the category descriptions from the WordPress database table wp_term_taxonomy. David provides specific instructions about how to fix the issue by manually updating the database table. I understand many people have found his instructions restored their categories! I’m about to try it, I’ll let you know how I make out.Here’s the link
http://blog.cumps.be/wordpress-26-upgrade-fix-missing-categories/
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Frank Eves Reply:
July 26th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
The loss of category titles is a WordPress 2.6 problem not a Wordpress Automatic Upgrade Plugin problem. David Cumps identified a bug in the 2.6 upgrade script that can delete the category descriptions from the WordPress database table wp_term_taxonomy. David offers detailed instructions about how to fix this issue by updating the database table. I was able to manually restore my category titles by following his diagrams.
Click here for David’s instructions.
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Carl
July 25th, 2008 at 9:05 am #
Great tool I thought there was an issue with it when I started getting “not found” or 404 errors but have since discovered that there was an issue with Wordpress 2.6’s permalinks if you had custom urls.
have posted the general issue and fix on my blog.
http://www.hubbers.com/blog/index.php/warning-dont-upgrade-to-wordpress-version-26-if-you-use-seo-friendly-urls/
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sesli sohbet
July 26th, 2008 at 6:40 pm #
thanked post
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E. Alvin Davis
July 27th, 2008 at 4:01 pm #
I am using two WP blog themes on my hosted site. The first is on the main domain, the other is in a blog directory.
I was upgrading to the newest WP. I wasn’t using your plugin for the upgrade, just responding to the upgrade suggestion in my Admin panel (later on another blog I found the automatic upgrade using the plugin option but that wasn’t available at the time of the upgrade).
I started with the main domain and during the process I got an error that your plugin that hadn’t automatically deactivated. When I attempted to view the site I got an error message saying, “The Site is currently undergoing maintenance, Sorry for the inconvenience.” This is an error message from the plugin provider. Once I deleted the plugin the message disappeared and the site was restored to pre-upgrade status.
Before upgrading to the blog directory I deleted the plugin just in case. Unfortunately, I’m getting the same error even though your plugin has been deleted. I’m able to enter the admin and I can ftp the site but I’m not sure what I need to do to get rid of the message and restore the site. Any ideas?
Thanks for your help. I really appreciate your plugin and any help you can offer.
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Guru
July 29th, 2008 at 3:05 am #
Plugin is good. The error messages aren’t!
Plugin checks the file permissions using index.php, this makes the prelim checks fail even if the folder is fully writable.
Is there a specific reason behind it?
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Nick
July 29th, 2008 at 1:16 pm #
I’ve got the same problem as Al Gallia, above:
“Problem: The first backup .zip was downloaded to my hard drive. But when I try to unzip it, I get a Windows popup that say Windows blocked the unzip attempt. Properties for the wpau-files-bak-wipErGjr.zip file do not include an “block” flag to uncheck. Please advise. Any comments appreciated. Thanks.
Note: I am using latest Windows XP Home, SP2.”
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Jerkie
July 31st, 2008 at 2:01 pm #
I downlaoded Word Press beta and my AVG reports it has a virus!
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Chuck Reply:
August 1st, 2008 at 2:20 am
AVG is not always correct. And watch were you get software from as well.
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Darrin
August 7th, 2008 at 4:16 pm #
I used the Automatic Updater and went through the 5 steps with no problems. When I got to the stage that said it would log me out, it did and I am not able to log back in.
Anyone have a fix or idea of what to do?
Thanks for the help.
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shinya
August 8th, 2008 at 10:01 pm #
i never get past page after inputting credentials:
Warning: ftp_site() [function.ftp-site]: Could not change perms on /public_html/blackbook: No such file or directory in /home/dpschism/public_html/blackbook/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 192
Warning: ftp_chdir() [function.ftp-chdir]: Can’t change directory to //public_html/blackbook: No such file or directory in /home/dpschism/public_html/blackbook/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 229
Warning: ftp_chdir() [function.ftp-chdir]: Can’t change directory to //public_html/blackbook/wp-admin: No such file or directory in /home/dpschism/public_html/blackbook/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 229
Warning: ftp_chdir() [function.ftp-chdir]: Can’t change directory to //public_html/blackbook/wp-includes: No such file or directory in /home/dpschism/public_html/blackbook/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 229
Warning: ftp_chdir() [function.ftp-chdir]: Can’t change directory to /public_html/blackbook: No such file or directory in /home/dpschism/public_html/blackbook/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 421
sorry. it might just be i’m not too much of a techie so i can’t understand what these all means. but the rest of the plugin is easy to understand, not just the error text.
so i’m quitting. i’ll just settle for the 2.5.1 upgrade via fantastico =(. i just hope you can explain what i did wrong here…
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1 T-shirts World
August 12th, 2008 at 6:24 pm #
Hi Keith, Thanks for your great works. Have to admit that I went through the comment, which I usually did, to check out what are the users’ ratings. It turns out to be a debate of spelling check of WP rather than comment on the plugin itself:D Anyway, there are a lot of people thumb up for the plugin too. I am trying it out. Thanks again for your hard works. Please keep up! Love~
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1 T-shirts World
August 12th, 2008 at 6:26 pm #
Oh ya, and remember to add in the rollback features too. I would love that to the most:D
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dreXeL
August 17th, 2008 at 7:54 pm #
i’ve always been too scared to upgrade to a newer version of wp. so like an idiot i’ve been hanging on to my old version for like…YEARS. today i decided to do it. it took me seriously 2 MINUTES with this plugin. i can’t even begin to tell you how freaking PERFECT this plugin is. But i will tell you this: today is the first time i’ve donated money to an open source software developer just because i was so grateful they’d created something.
i’m grateful and amazed. you are awesome.
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Anna
August 17th, 2008 at 9:22 pm #
Keith,
I can not upgrade to 2.6. It tells me that it needs to clean up the prior upgrade. I click to let it clean up and then nothing happens. I am back to the same screen telling me that the plug-in needs to clean-up.
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nils
August 18th, 2008 at 6:08 am #
I just upgraded my wordpress with this plugin.
It was SOOO painless.. thank you very much for making my life easier!!!
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Kevin Jarrett
August 18th, 2008 at 9:56 am #
Love this plugin, thanks so much. Trying to upgrade a site where the install is in /public_html/blog not the root. I put the FTP credentials in but it complains it’s unable to connect. I’m positive I’m inputting it right.
username
password
/public_html/blog
I am leaving host blank. Is something supposed to go in there?
Thanks so much,
-kj-
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Keith Dsouza Reply:
August 18th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
@Kevin the host field will include the FTP host you use to login into your FTP server
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Kevin Jarrett Reply:
August 18th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
[smacking forehead] D’OH!!! [/smacking forehead]
Thanks!
-kj-
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Matt Thorn
August 21st, 2008 at 7:46 pm #
Brilliant. It works like a dream. I was amazed to discover that it automatically upgrades not only WordPress itself but all my WordPress plugins, including itself. And it does it so quickly, the first time I used it I couldn’t believe it had really worked. I’ve only been using it for a week, but it has already proved its value to me, so today I made a donation. Thanks, Keith!
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Jay
August 23rd, 2008 at 8:00 am #
Could someone answer Al Gallia’s (April 27) or Nick’s (July 29) question? Like them, I can’t get Windows to unzip the backup of the WP files.
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Alan
August 23rd, 2008 at 8:04 am #
After using WPAU to upgrade to 2.6.1 the automatic upgrade for plugins no longer works. I’m getting “Could not remove the old plugin” when trying to upgrade any plugin – this happened for me on all the websites I used WPAU on… any ideas?
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Rick Hepting
August 24th, 2008 at 8:39 pm #
I got to this point (below)and clicked the last instruction and have to sign in but it won’t accept my password or any replacement password emailed to me by the site. I deleted the old index.php file and put in the backup but nothing works. I can see the website but it has changed and my categories are missing and there is no login area. I’m not sure what to do next???
Can you help?
Wordpress automatic upgrade
Upgrades your wordpress installation automatically. If this plugin helped you, you can contribute towards plugin development by Donating to me.
TASK OUTPUT
Congratulations!!! All the files have been upgraded to the latest version. Please CLICK HERE TO COMPLETE THE FINAL STEP (opens in new window and will show you a upgrade link only if database has to be upgraded) and come back here to reactivate your pluginsNote: 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 this window and click on the link to re-activate your plugins.TASK STATUS
We succesfully completed the task which, Upgrades all the installation files.
Next Task -> Re-activates all the plugins that were active earlier
Please CLICK HERE to go to the next task.
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Shelli Reply:
September 18th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Rick, did you fix this on your site somehow? I am having the same problem and I cannot fix the blog. I can’t get past that final step and I have tried everything suggested in the forums. If you can help me, I would greatly appreciate it. I have been trying to fix this for 5 days.
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Rick Hepting Reply:
September 19th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Shelli,
That site is working now but I’m not sure if I remember how I “fixed” it. I work on a lot of sites and things blur sometimes.
I think it had something to do with firefox. I went on with IE and was able to sign in and then sign out on firefox (and IE). Then it worked.
Google the problem. I think that’s how I figured it out.
The next sites I upgraded manually…
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Komik Resimler
August 25th, 2008 at 9:26 am #
Thanks for your article. it’s very good ;)
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Komik Resimler
August 25th, 2008 at 9:51 am #
thanks for the article ;)
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Roy
August 26th, 2008 at 4:22 am #
I’m sure you’ve been made aware of this, but there seems to be a hack going on misusing the wpau-backup folder that your plugin makes. Just do a little Google search for wpau-backup and see how many sites still have it. Apparently it is writable (sometimes the folder has an index “hacked by blabla”) and one guy on the WP forums seems to suggest that the folder was used to get to other folders on his server.
Something to look into?
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Fitness
August 29th, 2008 at 12:10 am #
thx for the great stuff. Keep up your nice work!
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subash
August 30th, 2008 at 9:25 pm #
hi..thanks for this pulgin makes our lives just that little bit easier…
i have an issue though or i think it is. im using v2.5.1 and the latest version is 2.6.1 but your plugin, when run says im already using the latest version. Is there something im missing?
my wordpress is hosted on go-daddy and installed on the root directory
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Mrinmay Bhattacharjee
August 31st, 2008 at 2:06 pm #
Sir, I need your urgent help. My site is hosted on freehostia and the default wordpress installation as supported by freehostia is 2.5.1. I downloaded your plugin and activated it.
Now when I go to Automatic Upgrade it says Congratulations!!! Your WordPress version is already up to date.
But still I am on 2.5.1
Please help me how to upgrade to 2.6.1
Your help will greatly benifit me
With Best Wishes :)
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mj Reply:
October 21st, 2008 at 1:57 pm
I’m having the same problem. Did you figure this out?
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mj Reply:
October 21st, 2008 at 2:00 pm
mine says that I am already using the latest version, too, when in fact I am not. has anyone figured out what is wrong?
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Helen
September 3rd, 2008 at 4:12 am #
I try to run it and I get:
Warning: Wrong parameter count for mkdir() in /www/cgi/wp/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php on line 853
Warning: chmod failed: No such file or directory in /www/cgi/wp/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php on line 854
Warning: fopen(“/www/cgi/wp/wpau-backup/index.html”, “w”) – No such file or directory in /www/cgi/wp/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_helper.class.php on line 79
Cannot open file (/www/cgi/wp/wpau-backup/index.html). Please create a empty /www/cgi/wp/wpau-backup/index.html file manually
Warning: fopen(“/www/cgi/wp/wpau-backup/index.php”, “w”) – No such file or directory in /www/cgi/wp/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_helper.class.php on line 89
Cannot open file (/www/cgi/wp/wpau-backup/index.php). Please create a empty /www/cgi/wp/wpau-backup/index.html file manually
Warning: fopen(“/www/cgi/wp/wpau-backup/index.html”, “w”) – No such file or directory in /www/cgi/wp/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_helper.class.php on line 79
Cannot open file (/www/cgi/wp/wpau-backup/index.html). Please create a empty /www/cgi/wp/wpau-backup/index.html file manually
Warning: fopen(“/www/cgi/wp/wpau-backup/index.php”, “w”) – No such file or directory in /www/cgi/wp/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_helper.class.php on line 89
Cannot open file (/www/cgi/wp/wpau-backup/index.php). Please create a empty /www/cgi/wp/wpau-backup/index.html file manually
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_real_escape_string() in /www/cgi/wp/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php on line 334
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Irwan
September 3rd, 2008 at 7:35 pm #
Please help me, i’m a newbie from Indonesia
i don’t deactivate my all plugins, then appear error message:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: force_ssl_admin() in
/home/irwanbc/public_html/web/wp-settings.php on line 394
thanks before.
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Bekleidung
September 6th, 2008 at 12:38 am #
thx for the great article. keep on your great work
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Erika Jurney
September 9th, 2008 at 5:05 pm #
Nice plugin. Next time you push out a new version could you please correct the typos on the maintenance mode page you show to visitors during the upgrade?
“inconvinience” is spelled incorrectly.
And the URL to your plugin gets a 404.
Thanks,
Erika
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Denver Prophit Jr
September 10th, 2008 at 12:02 pm #
I would like to know when you will extend this script to offer SSL like wordpress or TLS? Our host servers do not permit unecrypted logins on FTP servers. See my article post.
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David
September 10th, 2008 at 12:15 pm #
Hi, It freezes after clicking “download the latest version”.
I know it says “between 10 and 300 seconds”. so, 10 seconds to 5 minutes. I’m still waiting and it’s been 1 hour.
I’ve tried it on IE7 and Firefox – same result.
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David
September 10th, 2008 at 12:24 pm #
It doesn’t work. I get to the point where you click to download the new version (takes 10 seconds to 300 seconds), but nothing happens. It’s been an hour, and I’ve tried in IE7 and Firefox.
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Cher
September 19th, 2008 at 4:59 am #
From the last few months, I’m in a confused state. But after accessing your plugin, I could upgrade the wpblog very easily from 2.2 to 2.6.2. Thanx a lot.
But, here is an error…
If you could see in my blog http://www.onlinedownloads.org/diary/ …when I click on the categories (like entertainment) …I get as the title …
Could you please help me in solving this bug. Awaiting your reply.
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Cher
September 19th, 2008 at 5:01 am #
If you could see in my blog http://www.onlinedownloads.org/diary/ …when I click on the categories (like entertainment) …I get (break symbol) as the title . Please look into it and solve my problem.
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Anurag
September 20th, 2008 at 11:26 am #
Great Plugin Buddy…
I used Same Plugin To Update My Wordpress Blog…
Really Helpful…
- Anurag R.C.
http://www.pcdrome.com
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Brad
September 24th, 2008 at 1:53 pm #
This is a Great Plugin so good that i just Posted on one of the blogs that i worked for wot some help on how to install the same
Wordpress Automatic upgrade
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Fabio M. Costa
September 24th, 2008 at 8:44 pm #
Your pluguin is totaly awesome! i was afraid of upgrading my wordpress but after upgrading with your plugin i was like “omg so easy!”.
Thank you!
Hope you get lots of donations! :P
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Chetan
October 8th, 2008 at 6:57 am #
This plugin makes my upgrading steps faster and much important safer.
no need to know the internal details , no need to go to server file manager !!!
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Nicky
October 8th, 2008 at 2:25 pm #
Wow! This plugin is awesome! AWESOME!!! You saved my life. This plugin should be made part of WordPress core. Well done!!!
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Frank
October 17th, 2008 at 8:54 pm #
Works good – except for the global translator plugin. Totally messed it up. Took me about 30 minutes to get it working. Not sure if I’d use the plugin. I won’t blame the plugin, as it could be the upgrade itself that messes everything up for that plugin.
Frank.
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Nene
October 23rd, 2008 at 6:29 am #
Hello,
I love the idea of your plug-in and I SWEAR I’ll donate if I can get it to work. But when I try to run it, I get this message, which I’m not techie enough to decipher:
Warning: ftp_site(): /: Operation not permitted in /hsphere/local/home/nelanela/labeet.dk/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade 2/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 185 Warning: ftp_chdir(): ///wp-admin: No such file or directory in /hsphere/local/home/nelanela/labeet.dk/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade 2/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 222 Warning: ftp_chdir(): ///wp-includes: No such file or directory in /hsphere/local/home/nelanela/labeet.dk/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade 2/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 222
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LOKE
October 24th, 2008 at 3:18 am #
三克油！
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Duke
October 27th, 2008 at 1:39 pm #
There is no better plug-in out there. Period! Thanks for this!!
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wiktor
October 28th, 2008 at 3:12 am #
I have the same problem like Nene
Warning: ftp_chdir() [function.ftp-chdir]: //public_html/wp-admin: No such file or directory in /home/kwiatuszki/domains/bankizdjec.pl/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 222
Warning: ftp_chdir() [function.ftp-chdir]: //public_html/wp-includes: No such file or directory in /home/kwiatuszki/domains/bankizdjec.pl/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 222
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Eric
October 30th, 2008 at 12:51 pm #
Even tho this is a nice plugin and will make it easier for everyone to upgrade.
Just don’t rush in to the upgrade…
Do your reasearch. Find out what other issues people had.
Then if you want to upgrade… plan the upgrade.
If there is a lot of issues with a certain upgrade, you might want to keep an eye out for that upgrade, and wait for another upgrade or patch.
Sometimes upgrades has issues, might me more unstable.
This goes for everything you upgrade too…
IE. when upgrade your OS.
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Mike Bruder
November 1st, 2008 at 8:55 pm #
Any plans to support the latest versions of Wordpress up to 2.6.3? Plugin page still says it only supports up to 2.6.1.
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Sean
November 2nd, 2008 at 5:05 am #
so awesome
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Jim Child
November 3rd, 2008 at 6:10 pm #
I’ve just PayPalled you a small donation, but also wanted to express my thanks “in person” as it were.
The WP Automatic Update Plugin is AWESOME. I’m new to WP and had only updated my one test WP installation once. It seemed like it was JUST YESTERDAY that I’d done the 2.62 update …and today I faced doing the 2.63.
Well, doing the dread task with your plugin was ENJOYABLE.
Thank you!
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tweakwindows
November 5th, 2008 at 11:31 am #
Great one. I was planning to upgrade my wordpress blog.Thanks.
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Giuseppe
November 7th, 2008 at 10:03 am #
excusse me for my post here:
upgrading from 2.7 b1 to 2.7 b2
[Fri Nov 07 15:44:27 2008] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xx.xxx] suexec policy violation: see suexec log for more details, referer: http://www.———.com/—/wp-admin/update.php?action=upgrade-core
[Fri Nov 07 15:44:27 2008] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xx.xxx] Premature end of script headers: index.php, referer: http://www.———.com/—/wp-admin/update.php?action=upgrade-core
ciao
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Antonio
November 8th, 2008 at 7:57 am #
It is incredible!! I use Wordpress inside a web hosted in Yahoo.com. I had Worpress version 2.3.3 and I didn’t want to update it because I was afraid to have to begin everything again. This plugin worked PERFECT for me!!! Thanks a lot!!
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Ian
November 10th, 2008 at 4:01 pm #
Hi
I have installed the plugin on a site I look after – bringingupbaby.co.uk
The site is running Wordpress 2.3.1.
I allowed 777 permissions, but still get the same error on the last step:
Warning: copy(/home/content/b/r/i/bringingupbaby/html/wordpress/index.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/b/r/i/bringingupbaby/html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_upgrade.class.php on line 357
We could not complete the upgrade please try again later, click here to check the logs.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Ian
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Katja
November 16th, 2008 at 10:08 pm #
Fantastic Plugin. I had WordPress version 2.3.1 or something like that. I had read stories about people losing their sites when upgrading, so I just never even tried it. I am so glad I found this page! It was nice to be able to donate to you, as I am very thankful. :-)
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Paul
November 24th, 2008 at 7:08 am #
First of all I have to say it is a really fantastic plugin. I have tried to use it three times, but only at the first time it worked perfectly.
The second time, the plugin is hidden on the admin area on WordPress, and therefore, could not be activated, although the wpau directory exists on the right place (ie. plugins directory).
The third problem occurs when the plugin starts to update through Manage > Automatic Update. “Warning: exec() has been disabled for security reasons” pushes me to provide my FTP credentials. After giving it I have at the end the following message:
”
Warning: fopen(/www/1stfreehosting.com/k/i/s/kisah-kisah/htdocs/blog/wpau-backup/index.html) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /www/1stfreehosting.com/k/i/s/kisah-kisah/htdocs/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_helper.class.php on line 79
Cannot open file (/www/1stfreehosting.com/k/i/s/kisah-kisah/htdocs/blog/wpau-backup/index.html). Please create a empty /www/1stfreehosting.com/k/i/s/kisah-kisah/htdocs/blog/wpau-backup/index.html file manually
Warning: fopen(/www/1stfreehosting.com/k/i/s/kisah-kisah/htdocs/blog/wpau-backup/index.php) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /www/1stfreehosting.com/k/i/s/kisah-kisah/htdocs/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_helper.class.php on line 89
Cannot open file (/www/1stfreehosting.com/k/i/s/kisah-kisah/htdocs/blog/wpau-backup/index.php). Please create a empty /www/1stfreehosting.com/k/i/s/kisah-kisah/htdocs/blog/wpau-backup/index.html file manuallyWe could not complete the upgrade please try again later, click here to check the logs.
”
PS. The first two experiences were done at the same free hosting: freehost10.com whereas the last one at another: 1stfreehosting.com.
Any idea ?
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whlooi
November 26th, 2008 at 3:52 am #
This is a fantastic WP plugin. Its really make my life easier for WP upgrade process. Thanks, buddy.
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Queensberry
December 4th, 2008 at 7:05 am #
good articel! nice work!
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Amanda
December 11th, 2008 at 5:45 pm #
Oh my goodness, you are a life saver! I’ve been dreading upgrading, but you’ve just made it so easy. GBU!
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Seo
December 12th, 2008 at 6:31 am #
It don’t work with my site: Fatal error: Cannot redeclare pclziputilpathreduction(), how to fix it?
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usenet junkie
December 17th, 2008 at 1:51 am #
Thanks for this definite time saver
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fabian
December 17th, 2008 at 4:13 am #
any help with this erro? Installed older version from godaddy and tried using upgrade tool; only to get this error…
Warning: main(wpau_helper.class.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/w/o/o/woodlandmtg/html/siteAllThingsIphone/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php on line 127
Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required ‘wpau_helper.class.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/content/w/o/o/woodlandmtg/html/siteAllThingsIphone/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php on line 127
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David Kitwell
December 20th, 2008 at 6:39 pm #
I did the upgrade successfully. Awesome plugin. One problem though! None of the “Tools” links works! Any ideas? Thanks, Dave
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Eko
December 22nd, 2008 at 12:22 pm #
Thank’s, a great plugin…
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Rajhesh Panchanadhan
January 21st, 2009 at 12:28 am #
Hi Keith,
Thank you for the plugin. I tried to upgrade from my previous installation v2.04 to the latest using WPAU.
It upgraded alright. I can see the new dashboard and all the other new stuff. However my blog does not load and gives the ‘Page Load Error’ in firefox.
I am now changing all the directories and files to 777 via FTP. Still not working. Any thougts.
Cheers
Rajhesh
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userbarna
January 27th, 2009 at 7:03 am #
We recorded the screen while doing the process of using this great plugin!!
Awesome and easy functionality. Congratulations to the creator (Keith).
Keep it up. Regards from Spain.
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Annalyn
February 3rd, 2009 at 11:33 pm #
I am getting this error:
Warning: copy(/home/pinoycel/public_html/index.php) [function.copy]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/pinoycel/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_upgrade.class.php on line 361
We could not complete the upgrade please try again later, click here to check the logs.
please help…
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Daniel
February 13th, 2009 at 1:49 pm #
Hi, I tried to upgrade my blog with your plugin but it throws me this error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function current_user_can() in /home/heepweb/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php on line 843
Any ideas?
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youfoundjake
February 14th, 2009 at 5:01 pm #
I think version 1.2.2 is having some problems. With the plugin activated, and using wordpress’s automatic upgrade feature, i’ve seen some people get a error:
Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.7.1.zip
Unpacking the core update
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class pclzip in /home/…/wp-admin/includes/class-pclzip.php on line 171
When i deactivated the wpau plugin, i was able to update fine through wordpress.
wpau1.2.2 did not detect that there was an update available.
when i was running wpau 1.1 on a site, the update was detected and wpau 1.1 did it perfectly, even though the wordpress function to update failed with the above error..
anyways, i love wpau, thanks for the tool..
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Philip
February 15th, 2009 at 5:35 pm #
hey PELF..it’s obvious, you are a Co-Dependant Moron.
Get a life!
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Matthew
February 28th, 2009 at 11:37 pm #
Beautiful! Thanks very much. Should be WP core. Saved me much pissing around.
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Tamkeen
March 13th, 2009 at 3:15 pm #
Hi Keith, goin by the comments the plugin seems to be very popular :) … but for me, the plugin didnt show results … the process stops half way through… it goes blank after it informs me its getting the latest.zip file. Please help! thanks
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Emil
March 22nd, 2009 at 12:54 am #
Hi, nice article. Now, this would not apply with 2.7.1? or it still does?
Cheers,
Emil
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feed the donkey
April 7th, 2009 at 9:29 am #
Great plugin, saves a lot of time…Thanks
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belajar wordpress
April 14th, 2009 at 9:45 pm #
Thanks for making this plugin, i already try it and works.
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leon
May 30th, 2009 at 10:09 am #
i was looking for this plugins only … finally got it .. thanks =)
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Jotto
June 4th, 2009 at 2:14 pm #
Hi,
I have experienced some problems with the plugin.
Once the upgrade fineshed the blog home page show me “500 Server error”.
After many researches I discovered that the plugins put permission “644″ in many files instead of “755″.
After the permission correction the blog now is working.
bye.
Salvo
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Nadeem
June 4th, 2009 at 4:26 pm #
This plugin is awesome!
I have been avoiding the upgrade for months, but *can not* express how easy it was to upgrade the wordpress to the latest version using this plugin. A big thank you to the developer!
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Nitin
June 11th, 2009 at 4:53 am #
When do you plan to update this plugin to autmotically update to wordpress version 2.8
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Jon
June 26th, 2009 at 10:33 am #
Thanks for this, I am going to use the heck out of this plugin!!
Keep up the good work!
Jon
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AuraRinoa
June 30th, 2009 at 10:41 am #
Fantastic -.- my website does not exists anymore! ._. damn.
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Eduardo Wöetter
July 1st, 2009 at 2:29 am #
ERROR
Seems not working, and don’t know why
Can anyone help me?
PHP Warning: exec() has been disabled for security reasons in E:\home\woetter1\Web\blog\wp-content\plugins\wordpress-automatic-upgrade\wpau_db_backup.class.php on line 520
On line 520 we see this:
exec(“chmod 755 $archiveName”);
Thanks!
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Lee Miller
July 3rd, 2009 at 9:52 am #
Hey, this is an awesome plugin, only found it by chance, handled all the upgrades seamlessly, awesome!!!!!
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Bob B Taylor
July 30th, 2009 at 6:21 pm #
This plugin has saved my blog from falling over. I have read countless of methods how to upgrade from an early version of word press and they just go over my head. This plug in worked like a charm and took only 10 minutes to do its thing.
Thanks
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Carol
August 10th, 2009 at 10:23 am #
It says I didn’t clean up the files, but then when I click the button to do that, it says I don’t have permission. What do I need to do?
Thanks!
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Michael
August 23rd, 2009 at 7:01 pm #
A really useful plug in. I have a heap of word press blogs and this will save an enormous amount of time.
Thanks for the tips!
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moratmarit
September 12th, 2009 at 12:53 pm #
It is indeed one of the most usefull plugins I’ve ever seen! :-)
Great job, en thx a lot!
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WPclassifieds.net
October 1st, 2009 at 12:45 am #
I hope you can make a version of this plugin for wordpress-mu.
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Andy Fitzpatrick
October 20th, 2009 at 7:42 am #
Thanks for this plugin it will save mne so much time
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Snuggie
October 30th, 2009 at 5:34 pm #
YEah I am so bad for backing up, and you think I would have learned because I have lost so many things along the way.
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GSB
November 19th, 2009 at 6:50 pm #
I had this plugin installed and did an update today but it didn’t seem to finish, even though it said it was, and now my whole site still says:
“The Site is currently undergoing maintenance, Sorry for the inconvinience. Wordpress Automatic Upgrade Plugin provided by Techie Buzz.”
I removed the plugin (since I can just use Wordpress to upgrade now) and upgraded manually by deleting and overwriting the old WP files, but it still says the above blurb. Please help!
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Keith Dsouza Reply:
November 20th, 2009 at 2:43 am
@GSB – This forum post will help you recover from the above error – http://forum.techie-buzz.com/topic/upgrade-issue-site-stuck-in-maintenance-mode
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Noam
December 27th, 2009 at 6:24 pm #
Does it work with wp mu?
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Tara
January 10th, 2010 at 7:20 pm #
the one feature that I really want is the ability to quickly download the log at the end of the upgrade as a file to save with my backups.
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Ricky News
February 14th, 2010 at 6:26 pm #
The Site is currently undergoing maintenance, Sorry for the inconvinience. Wordpress Automatic Upgrade Plugin provided by Techie Buzz Thanks Good Super..
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sesli
April 19th, 2010 at 12:57 pm #
Thank you for the information your provide.
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kingfelix
April 23rd, 2010 at 7:20 pm #
Without *any* doubt at all, the best WP plug-in I have come across in years of using it.
The bomb.
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Bağlama Büyüsü
May 8th, 2010 at 4:12 am #
Wow it has to be the best plugin ever made for wordpress!!
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Tioman
May 8th, 2010 at 1:37 pm #
Great one..thanks keith
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Posicionamiento web
May 17th, 2010 at 11:32 pm #
Im having the same problem with my wordpress site with 2.9 i can’t updgrade any plugin automaticly… it get stucked at: ” unpacking the plugin”…. does anyone have a soltuion for this… i tried google it but the moethod they offer are not good for me… i also have increased the memoru of my wordpess page to 128mb if that was the case… but still can updagradeor install any plugin.. i will appreciate your help here.. thanks
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Diet
May 18th, 2010 at 11:16 pm #
Hiya, Good job, thank you very much.
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Mariscos
May 26th, 2010 at 6:42 pm #
Is this plugin currently working with wordpress 2.9.2?
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Keith Dsouza Reply:
May 26th, 2010 at 9:07 pm
@Mariscos – Yes this works with WP 2.9.2
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online shopping mall
June 14th, 2010 at 7:16 am #
Great plugin! I think it will radically change the way I’ll update content and will prevent any loss of data.
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Joey
June 22nd, 2010 at 2:09 pm #
My website seems to have vanished (unfortunately it was not a test site but the real thing). For 2 days now the address shows only “The Site is currently undergoing maintenance.” How do I undo the damage and get my site back? I can’t follow your index.php instructions below because I can’t get to the site.
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Joey
June 23rd, 2010 at 12:26 am #
Is there any way to undo this action and restore my website (which is now in apparently permanent “maintenance” status?
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lingerie
June 29th, 2010 at 10:15 pm #
Hope to know more information from it.
Very useful information in this post.
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DaKnit
July 3rd, 2010 at 9:31 pm #
Thank you so much for this plugin! It helps alot :) Best plugin ever!
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SesliChatSiteleri
July 21st, 2010 at 3:12 pm #
Hi Keith, goin by the comments the plugin seems to be very popular :) … but for me, the plugin didnt show results … the process stops half way through… it goes blank after it informs me its getting the latest.zip file. Please help! thanks.
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