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WordPress Automatic Upgrade [WPAU 1.2.5]

by | Thursday, 19th Feb 2009 | 34 Comments | Share

I had officially retired Automatic Upgrade sometime back, however after several emails to upgrade the plugin and issues for upgrading using WordPress core update in WordPress 2.7 and above, and emails from the Automattic team, I have finally released a update that addresses couple of issues.

The issues that are fixed are as follows.

  • Fixed an issue which disallowed core updates to occur when WPAU was updated in WP 2.7 and above.
  • Updated the code to display nag on WordPress 2.7 and above.

This takes care of problems faced by several users, you can download the latest update from the official WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin page, or directly update it using the plugin updater in WordPress core.

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  1. Matt on February 19th, 2009 at 10:18 pm #

    Neat — are you coming to WordCamp India on Saturday?

    • Keith Dsouza on February 20th, 2009 at 12:06 am #

      @Matt unfortunately no, I am in NY, so maybe we can catch up when you are in the city.

  2. Fox on February 20th, 2009 at 1:28 am #

    Thanks for the update … I needed it :)

  3. BeyondRandom on February 20th, 2009 at 8:57 pm #

    Hey Bro, I just wanted to say thank you so much as this plug-in saved my @$$ and I wish I would have used this first. I tried to have my provider upgrade wordpress for me and they screwed up and rolled my blog back twice erasing alot of content which you can guess, made me livid! I found your plugin and it was awesome, fast and simple. I know I probably sound like a little girl but its because I was dreading having to manually upgrade it and make backups but your plug in took care of that for me. Thanks again!

  4. Jamie on February 21st, 2009 at 6:26 am #

    Thanks for updating this plugin — your plugin works perfectly for me, while the built in WP function does not.

    Count me as one vote for keeping this plugin current!

  5. infopemula on February 22nd, 2009 at 2:14 am #

    It’s very useful tool – Thanks

  6. Bob R.f on February 22nd, 2009 at 9:30 pm #

    Will there ever be a version that will work with WpMu (WordPress Multiple Users)??

  7. Cheap Mobile Calls on February 23rd, 2009 at 6:58 am #

    I’ve set up my blog to auto update. Glad it fixes some issues.

  8. DBJDBJ on March 6th, 2009 at 1:16 pm #

    I am the unfortunate one waiting for the bellow to happen. Any idea when ?

    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
    Oops we cannot run the WordPress Automatic Update on your site. We are currently trying to fix issues for systems like yours and will release a new version shortly.

  9. Konc on March 24th, 2009 at 5:02 am #

    Thanks for the update but the plugin left my blog in maintanence mode. :P

    Thankfully it wasn’t hard to fix though.

  10. David Tampien on March 28th, 2009 at 8:08 pm #

    I am totally frustrated. WordPress tells me to update but I cannot figure out how to do it. I would it would be simple for guys like me who don’t understand the tech stuff. If there is a simple way to do it I’d sure like to know about it.

    Thanks, David Tampien-Moses Lake, WA

  11. Shannon on June 10th, 2009 at 10:50 pm #

    I’m having the same issue now, but I have 1.2.5, and want to upgrade to 2.8. I currently have 2.7.1. WP is not nagging me to upgrade, and the plugin says I’m up-to-date.

    Help?

  12. Dhini on June 12th, 2009 at 5:29 am #

    If I activated this plugin activated.
    I saw this
    open(/var/www/g6158/dhini.nl/tmp/sess_052f38906b8505ce946dde68132f964d, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in /var/www/g6158/dhini.nl/HTML/wp/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php on line 121

    • indimag on February 6th, 2010 at 12:12 am #

      Keith,Dhini,
      Love the plugin ; used to work like charm ; all of a sudden my feedburner feed is broken and this plugin is listed as the cause :
      Http://feeds.feedburner.com/indimag

      Any and all help greatly appreciated. Kinda urgent, so hoping someone has an answer !

      Cheers

  13. Agent 001 on July 11th, 2009 at 4:00 pm #

    Can WPAU be used to upgrade WPMU? I need a urgent reply.

  14. John on August 15th, 2009 at 9:06 pm #

    Hello. For some reason I’m having issues installing this plug in. I unzipped and uploades to the plug ins folder but for some reason I can’t see the new uploaded plug in in my dashboard.

    Help, how do I make this plug in in order to activate it? thanks!

  15. Craw on September 6th, 2009 at 9:54 pm #

    Hi, WPAU used to work fine in my blog. But now it won’t upgrade to 2.8.4. When I try to upgrade and click on the link saying everything is ready to roll it just loads a blank page, but the WP admin header and left side navigation still show up.

    Please help. I need to upgrade badly and I hate manually upgrading for fear of messing things up.

    Thank you. I love this plugin.

  16. Bob on September 8th, 2009 at 1:43 pm #

    Cheers,

    I have an issue similar to Craw above. I can enter and navigate the Dashboard and all of the var5ious screens. But my Blog itself is ‘missing’. Please check here: http://www.daily-nonsense.com/Blog/

    Could you please tell me what I might have done wrong and how I can fix it?

    Thanks!

    Bob

    • Keith Dsouza on September 8th, 2009 at 2:00 pm #

      @Bob Do you have access to your admin interface, if so can you try changing the theme to something else? Looks like a issue with the theme as the page is only half loading.

      • Bob on September 8th, 2009 at 2:02 pm #

        That is exactly what the issue was. I’ll find a new replacement theme and be back in business. Thank you for the incredibly quick troubleshooting and response time!

        ~bob

  17. ioannis on September 9th, 2009 at 4:48 pm #

    I upgraded my blog but i receive these msg The Site is currently undergoing maintenance, Sorry for the inconvinience

    WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin provided by Techie Buzz.

    Please somebody to help me…..

  18. John on October 21st, 2009 at 7:45 am #

    Hi,
    I tried upgrading to 2.8.5 a few minutes ago with your plugin.

    Now, my site doesn’t work. It’s stuck in maintenance mode. How do I get out of it.

    I don’t have a .maintenance file in my blog folder.

    I just don’t understand why this happened.

    I deleted your plugin but that didn’t work. Please help

  19. Hakan on December 20th, 2009 at 4:53 am #

    Somehow I can't upgrade the wordpress core on my local machine through the default wordpress update button. But your plugin kicks ass as always. Thanks for your trustworthy work! Please keep up with the updates.

    P.S. It worked for 2.8.6 to 2.9 upgrade on my local WAMP server as of today.
    .-= Hakan´s last blog ..A CPA For Taxes-Does It Make A Difference? =-.

  20. RdH on January 12th, 2010 at 5:34 am #

    Hello,

    I've tried your plugin on my 2.0.6 blog, and everything worked. But… not my login/pass, so I can't connect to my admin, and it's the same for all users. I've tried to change the pass, etc. but same problem. The couple login/pass in wp_users database is not valid.
    If you have a solution to this problem, I will be very happy !

  21. Yanzen on January 27th, 2010 at 8:08 am #

    Love this plugins

  22. goblinbox on March 2nd, 2010 at 2:07 pm #

    How do I get out of Maintenance Mode, please?

    There's no .maintenance file to delete. I restored my index.php file as well; no dice.

    Anyone?

    Thanks.

  23. Pete on May 29th, 2010 at 3:54 pm #

    I have several installations for friends with WP all of them in english exept this one that uses greek Wp.

    The plugin works fine on all exept in greek-core installations, that gives the warning to upgrade even though it is the latest release (verified) – even if i proceed with an upgrade, all goes well and the message still remains on the dashboard… I thought to let you know…

    regards

    pete

    greece

    • beto on October 22nd, 2010 at 11:46 am #

      same happens with our WP (Spanish) – keeps showing warning to upgrade. Any way to correct?

      Otherwise great plugin.

  24. Lisa Casson on August 2nd, 2011 at 2:21 am #

    Hi there, I went to my website this morning and got a whole bunch of php errors that seemed to be because of your plugin. I deleted it but when I wanted to reinstall, I couldn’t find it on WordPress any more. What happened?