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Techie Buzz: Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin

  • ReviewSaurus · 2 years ago
    Wow it has to be the best plugin ever made for wordpress!!
  • keith · 2 years ago
    Thanks for the compliments.
  • john oneill · 1 year ago
    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
  • Uzair · 2 years ago
    This is the best plugin i have ever seen
  • keith · 2 years ago
    glad you liked it Uzair.
  • Brown Baron · 2 years ago
    Impressive. I'm sure a lot of people will be upgrading now that they can use this plugin. Great work buddy.
    Stumbled.
  • keith · 2 years ago
    Hey thanks for appreciating Baron.
  • Goran Web · 1 year ago
    Great plugin to prevent any loss of data. Thanks mate.
  • pelf · 2 years ago
    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..
  • keith · 2 years ago
    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
  • pelf · 2 years ago
    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:

    WordPress is a trademark and thus must be spelled appropriately. This has been explained redundantly, so when I see a blog post with Wordpress not WordPress and Wordpress plug-in not WordPress Plugin, the article loses some of its luster.

    I try to ignore it, but it does score a bit against the credibility of the author who should know better. It isn’t a killer but it does downgrade my score for inclusion.

    Why? If their attention to detail skips the proper spelling of these words, what does that say for the information they are presenting. What little detail has been overlooked or ignored? Should I risk recommending something that might be flawed?
  • Ernesto · 2 years ago
    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 · 1 year ago
    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.

    Lol! URLs are case insensitive. So it does not matter if its WoRdPrEsS or wordpress! :P
  • ARod · 1 year ago
    Oh my.. This is funny.. Spelling.. LOL...lol...
  • Smokie · 1 year ago
    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 · 1 year ago
    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 · 1 year ago
    I choosy the plugin not the spelling... Lol :-D
  • Diane · 1 year ago
    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.
  • jk · 1 year ago
    oh pallllllllllllllleeeez... That that is the most ridiculous comment ever... You don't have a lot of friends do you?
  • Nirmal · 2 years ago
    Keith,
    This is a great plugin for wordpress.
  • pelf · 2 years ago
    I have downloaded and tried the plugin to upgrade from version 2.1.3 but it doesn't work..
  • Tim Turner · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Ronald Huereca · 2 years ago
    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?
  • Mr.Byte · 2 years ago
    Thats a great plugin and saves a lot of time...
  • Shankar Ganesh · 2 years ago
    Awesome Job, Keith. Will surely help people like me.
  • Trakin · 2 years ago
    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 !
  • keith · 2 years ago
    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.
  • Stefan · 2 years ago
    The plugin won't get past stage 1 with my WordPress weblog.
    I get some errors:

    Warning: is_dir(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/var/www/vhosts/myurl.com/httpdocs/..) is not within the allowed path(s): (/var/www/vhosts/myurl.com/httpdocs:/tmp) in /var/www/vhosts/myurl.com/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_zip.class.php on line 91

    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 = '


    I couldn't find any documentation about file permissions, settings or restrictions... Is there any available?
  • keith · 2 years ago
    Hi Stefan,

    Thanks for the error. I will definitely work on this and fix this error and release with the next version.

    Thanks
    Keith
  • Benedict Herold · 2 years ago
    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?
  • keith · 2 years ago
    Hi Benedict yes once the plugin becomes stable I will definitely push for integration.
  • Kyle Eslick · 2 years ago
    Wow, I was wondering where you were. This is a good excuse :)
  • Wojtek · 2 years ago
    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?
  • keith · 2 years ago
    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
  • Wojtek · 2 years ago
    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 ;-)
  • keith · 2 years ago
    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 · 2 years ago
    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 = '


    &ltstrong>Creating 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 $funcComplete is false (as in my case when wpau_backup_files() apparently fails) this line will evaluate to ... task_status = , ... -> incorrect MySQL syntax. If I were you I'd use intval($funcComplete) here (there might be a better way, I don't know :P)
  • keith · 2 years ago
    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.
  • Mybloggo · 2 years ago
    Help me!!!! after i upgrade using this plugin......My blog is not working
  • Mybloggo · 2 years ago
    Faster reply me.........
  • keith · 2 years ago
    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
  • Humberto Valentin · 2 years ago
    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
  • Thilak · 2 years ago
    Like always, Keith's plugins are always the best. Thanks for reliving the upgrade pain
  • MTO · 2 years ago
    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.
  • Vic · 2 years ago
    Thanks for such a great list of plugins, this list are so helpful for the new guy.

    Thanks

    Vic
  • Paul B. · 2 years ago
    Awesome plug in. Thank you!
  • Nspeaks · 2 years ago
    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-...
  • keith · 2 years ago
    Hi Nspeaks,

    I have found out this bug and this issue should be fixed and a patched version released shortly.
  • Dave · 2 years ago
    Thanks for developing the plug in. Very useful.
  • keith · 2 years ago
    thanks for the appreciation dave.
  • lester · 2 years ago
    Thanks!
  • Deelip · 2 years ago
    Wow, this iasawesome.
    I've just succefully upgraded my wordpress blog.
  • Dave Zan · 2 years ago
    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.
  • Eduardo Larequi · 2 years ago
    Great job. As we say in spanish, "funciona como un reloj" (it works like clockwork).
  • Venki · 2 years ago
    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.
  • matthew feldman · 2 years ago
    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
  • Robert · 2 years ago
    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.
  • keith · 2 years ago
    Hey Robert,

    Glad you liked it.

    Keith
  • Uber-Geek · 2 years ago
    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.
  • keith · 2 years ago
    Hey Uber,

    Thanks for the information, I will fix the above errors and release a patched version soon.

    Keith
  • Colin Dean · 2 years ago
    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).
  • Mark · 2 years ago
    A great plugin, one of the best really!
    But there is a little error:
    wpau_prelimcheck.class.php:90
    if($thePerms[2]
  • Eric · 2 years ago
    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.
  • humberto · 2 years ago
    in my case take only 1 min and a i try in 6 diferent sites
  • humberto · 2 years ago
    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.
  • Clive Murray · 2 years ago
    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.
  • mrben · 2 years ago
    Upgrade worked fine, apart from not being able to reactivate the plugins at the end.
  • enQuira · 2 years ago
    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
  • My Lil Venture · 2 years ago
    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?
  • Finis Price · 2 years ago
    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?
  • scoot · 2 years ago
    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.
  • rivermaya · 2 years ago
    Hi,
    why always stating this "Database files could not be backed up. Failed at Step 2."
    how to fix it ? thanks
  • Jussi · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Martin · 2 years ago
    how do we delete the wpau-backup folder? i am unable to do so via ftp
  • Anabelle · 2 years ago
    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!
  • Michael · 2 years ago
    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?
  • Mark · 2 years ago
    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.
  • Mark · 2 years ago
    Whoops - I left my full path in my last post! Would you mind removing or replacing it before approving? Many thanks!
    Mark
  • db · 2 years ago
    Thanks for the plug-in. I know Wordpress says its easy but I never seem to get the upgrades done right.
  • Don · 2 years ago
    This plugin does NOT work with WordPress 1.5. It calls the function current_user_can() which wasn't introduced until 2.x versions.
  • Butler · 2 years ago
    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.
  • mike · 2 years ago
    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.
  • Grace · 2 years ago
    I have upgraded thanks to the plugin but right after, I could not get email notifications for new comments!!

    Anyone having the same problem?
  • David Tan · 2 years ago
    Makes my post easier way to upgrade wordpress virtually useless :( Anyhow, nice plugin, I love it!
  • MarcF. · 2 years ago
    Works out fine for me , thanks for sharing this great plugin with us.
  • Mark. · 2 years ago
    thanks for this great plugin , works like a charm
  • Will · 2 years ago
    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!
  • David · 2 years ago
    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:



    WordPress database error: [Table 'stereo_wordpress.wp_terms' doesn't exist]
    SELECT t.*, tt.* FROM wp_terms AS t INNER JOIN wp_term_taxonomy AS tt ON t.term_id = tt.term_id WHERE tt.taxonomy IN ('category') AND t.slug = 'upgradephp' ORDER BY t.name ASC

    WordPress database error: [Table 'stereo_wordpress.wp_terms' doesn't exist]
    SELECT t.*, tt.* FROM wp_terms AS t INNER JOIN wp_term_taxonomy AS tt ON t.term_id = tt.term_id WHERE tt.taxonomy IN ('category') AND t.slug = 'upgradephp' ORDER BY t.name ASC

    WordPress database error: [Table 'stereo_wordpress.wp_term_relationships' doesn't exist]
    SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp_posts.* FROM wp_posts INNER JOIN wp_term_relationships ON (wp_posts.ID = wp_term_relationships.object_id) INNER JOIN wp_term_taxonomy ON (wp_term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id = wp_term_taxonomy.term_taxonomy_id) WHERE 1=1 AND wp_term_taxonomy.taxonomy = 'category' AND wp_term_taxonomy.term_id IN ('0') AND post_type = 'post' AND (post_status = 'publish' OR post_status = 'future' OR post_status = 'draft' OR post_status = 'pending' OR post_status = 'private') GROUP BY wp_posts.ID ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 0, 10


    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:

    Warning: main(./wp/wp-blog-header.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/stereo/public_html/wp/wp-admin/index.php on line 4

    Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required './wp/wp-blog-header.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/stereo/public_html/wp/wp-admin/index.php on line 4


    I'm assuming that's because I changed index.php around, but can't be sure yet.

    Immediate assistance would be much appreciated.
  • Andrius · 2 years ago
    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.
  • Tadd · 2 years ago
    This is probably one of the BEST plugins I've used. It's great. A wonder! Well done!
  • Anna · 2 years ago
    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 www.green-talk.com
  • Anna Hackman · 2 years ago
    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 www.green-talk.com
  • Roger Knight · 2 years ago
    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.
  • Will · 2 years ago
    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.
  • Rivermaya · 2 years ago
    If Keith not here, who's moderate these comments ? :)
  • Anna · 2 years ago
    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 www.green-talk.com
  • Keith Dsouza · 2 years ago
    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.
  • Will · 2 years ago
    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!
  • John · 1 year ago
    Nice, it worked with no problems. Thanks so much.
  • Anna · 1 year ago
    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!
  • colbert · 1 year ago
    I just upgraded to WP 2.3.2 - works like a charm. Thanks!
  • Manu · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Will · 1 year ago
    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#&*@!
  • Manu · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Tish · 1 year ago
    Wow. That was incredibly easy. Thank you!
  • Geoff · 1 year ago
    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
  • Ken · 1 year ago
    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.”

    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
  • Bong (JB) · 1 year ago
    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.
  • fra · 1 year ago
    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!
  • Will · 1 year ago
    @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.
  • fra · 1 year ago
    I said so because the next wordpress release namely 2.5 is round the corner...
  • Keith Dsouza · 1 year ago
    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
  • Hendra · 1 year ago
    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!
  • Dreamweaver, Flash &amp; Photo · 1 year ago
    Yes, this is totally awesome plugin! this help me a lot and really save my time for upgrading my wordpress.

    thanks!
  • Dhruva Sagar · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Anand · 1 year ago
    Hi Keith

    could you help me with this problem. I get this error during the backup process:


    Warning: copy(/home/techcrun/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/temp-index.php) [function.copy]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/techcrun/public_html/wp-content/plugins/WAPU/wpau_upgrade.class.php on line 323


    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
  • raffyman · 1 year ago
    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?
  • Muzica Populara · 1 year ago
    thank you for your advices, i'm a blogging novice and i love to learn new things about wordpress
  • iDude · 1 year ago
    Great plugin! Worked perfectly on my server...

    I'm running my blog (www.idude.org) on Abyss X2 Webserver on Windows 2003 server. No problems whatsoever.

    Keep up the excellent work
  • Jeff · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Nicola · 1 year ago
    Hello :)
    I am wondering if the plugin could work with internationalized versions of WordPress...
  • sciencebase · 1 year ago
    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
  • Blogetition · 1 year ago
    Great plugin, enjoy the $5 tip I just sent ya.
  • fra · 1 year ago
    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!
  • Tom Johnson · 1 year ago
    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
  • fazamania. · 1 year ago
    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
  • Göran Lindgren · 1 year ago
    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 · 1 year ago
    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!
  • Ian Smith · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Ian Smith · 1 year ago
    I get a blank screen as well, Sean, after clicking Let's Go to get the new WP installation from Wordpress.
  • Robby · 1 year ago
    You say that this puts the site into maintenance mode. Does this mean that I need the maintenance plugin, too?

    --Robby
  • xaer8 · 1 year ago
    It is one of the best plugin ever. Makes all automatically upgraded. Try it.
  • Jennifer · 1 year ago
    Thanks so much for this. It is absolutely superb!
  • TechnoMom · 1 year ago
    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! :-)
  • Mobile Phone Portal · 1 year ago
    This is awesome plugin dude. I tried it and succesfully upgrade my wordpress to the latest version. Thanks.
  • Glenn Dixon · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Micajah · 1 year ago
    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!
  • Thew · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Keith Dsouza · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Christopher · 1 year ago
    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
  • Keith Dsouza · 1 year ago
    Christopher yes this plugin works for 2.5 release I just upgraded the blog to 2.5 using the plugin.
  • Thew · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Glenn Dixon · 1 year ago
    Thew - who said anything about a release candidate?

    WP 2.5 is out!

    I just upgraded with the automatic plugin - worked *flawlessly*!
  • Christopher · 1 year ago
    thanks. Will it also upgrade WordPress-MU to newer versions when released?
  • Christopher · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Glenn Dixon · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Keith Dsouza · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Thew · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Chris Merriman · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Geek Mother · 1 year ago
    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?
  • Frank · 1 year ago
    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!
  • Geek Mother · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Holly · 1 year ago
    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!
  • diditho · 1 year ago
    working smoothly upgrading myblog to WP 2.5. Thankyou.
  • Marcos A.T. Silva · 1 year ago
    Thank you! :)

    I have updated my WordPress from 2.3.3 to 2.5 using your plugin, and it worked very fine.

    Regards.
  • Free WordPress Themes · 1 year ago
    Thanks for plugin. It works flawlessly great with my upgrade to 2.5. Keep up the good work.
  • Raul · 1 year ago
    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...
  • Posao · 1 year ago
    Hey THX for the tip. I must to try this plugin ;)
  • john a · 1 year ago
    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...
  • Landis · 1 year ago
    I get a fatal error and it will not activate the auto update from my administrative panel.
  • Summer · 1 year ago
    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?
  • fra · 1 year ago
    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
  • fra · 1 year ago
    i meant :... the upgrade went well but i could NOT reach the step where...
  • Dan · 1 year ago
    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
  • chris · 1 year ago
    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
  • Chris Masse · 1 year ago
    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
  • Gewinnspiele-Box · 1 year ago
    Great work. It makes wordpress life really simple, thanks.
  • Merci · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Sandy · 1 year ago
    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?
  • tkrin · 1 year ago
    Worked flawlessly for me going from 2.3.3. to 2.5. Excellent work!
  • poonam · 1 year ago
    Wow ...
    what a plugin...
    gr88...
    thanks a ton...
  • Estebandido · 1 year ago
    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?
  • Uli_NYC · 1 year ago
    Does the automatic upgrade touch other directories that may reside in the root directory?
  • scribu · 1 year ago
    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. :)
  • tom johnson · 1 year ago
    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.
  • T. Zybura · 1 year ago
    Same here. :/
  • Marcos A.T. Silva · 1 year ago
    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.
  • pivic · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Andy · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Andy · 1 year ago
    Doh! Please disregard my last comment (it was intended for a whacko political blogger but posted here by mistake...)
  • ALexMaureira · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Al Gallia · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Germz · 1 year ago
    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!
  • sanjeev · 1 year ago
    I'm a novice, this saved me so much time! Thanks for making your work available to us.
  • DazBlade · 1 year ago
    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.
  • DazBlade · 1 year ago
    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. =;-)
  • Nelson · 1 year ago
    I can't upgrade to 2.5.1! It used to do so smoothly in the previous versions. Don't know what's up.
  • mark · 1 year ago
    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
  • Johan · 1 year ago
    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 ;)
  • Gary Ooi · 1 year ago
    I've used it today to upgrade to Wordpress 2.5.1 and it worked flawlessly! Nice. Thanks for the plugin!
  • joe · 1 year ago
    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.”
  • Milan · 1 year ago
    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.
  • tracy · 1 year ago
    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
  • tracy · 1 year ago
    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!
  • Phill Deese · 1 year ago
    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
  • sab · 1 year ago
    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
  • bob · 1 year ago
    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
  • Aaron · 1 year ago
    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
  • Keith Dsouza · 1 year ago
    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
  • Dali · 1 year ago
    It is indeed one of the most usefull plugins I've ever seen! :-)
    Great job, en thx a lot!
  • Hanush · 1 year ago
  • Tony · 1 year ago
    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
  • phil · 1 year ago
    Great plugin, thanks very much. Smooth (and safe) update from 1.8.3 (I think) to 2.5.1.

    Phil
  • Michael Soriano · 1 year ago
    amazing plug in! good work.
  • Christopher · 1 year ago
    I hope you can make a version of this plugin for wordpress-mu.
  • chris · 1 year ago
    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...
  • Steve · 1 year ago
    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
  • Derek Huizinga · 1 year ago
    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: 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
  • kjell · 1 year ago
    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
  • Sinma · 1 year ago
    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!
  • prash · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Tanady · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Jeff · 1 year ago
    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!
  • Mark LaFlamme · 1 year ago
    Totally didn't work for me and no help forthcoming. What did work was this:
    http://www.zirona.com/software/wordpress-instan...
  • Chas · 1 year ago
    Last time I tried it, the plugin got stuck with 2.5.1.
    2.5.1 would not automatically load.
  • Tim Turner · 1 year ago
    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
  • Adrian · 1 year ago
    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?
  • Stef · 1 year ago
    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:
    <cite>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
    </cite>

    In the second case I get this:
    <cite>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</cite>
  • Chas · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Tim Turner · 1 year ago
    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
  • Chas · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Chas · 1 year ago
    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?...
  • Davide Benini · 1 year ago
    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
  • Alvaro · 1 year ago
    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
  • Alvaro · 1 year ago
    Hi again,

    I just found a portuguese plugin for the update.

    http://antoniocampos.no-ip.com/wordpress-actual...

    Thanks again.

    Alvaro
  • Craig Taylor · 1 year ago
    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!
  • Brian Ring · 1 year ago
    Craig
    did you ever figure out how to fix this?? i am having the same problem.
  • Nandan · 1 year ago
    just did. seemed to work pretty well.
  • elhusseiny · 1 year ago
    Amazing plugin, thanks mate
  • rjmarmol · 1 year ago
    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!
  • Claire · 1 year ago
    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 :)
  • Chas · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Chas · 1 year ago
    ( sorry 2.5.1 )
  • Simon · 1 year ago
    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
  • Mike · 1 year ago
    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?
  • Clive · 1 year ago
    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!
  • Certificate of Deposit Rates · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Buildingbodies · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Betty · 1 year ago
    Yeah.........tried many times on a Website Source account and it never works regardless of the permissions I set.
  • Lionel · 1 year ago
    Thanks for the in-depth explanation, really appreciated. Thanks.
  • Benjamin Langlois · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Zuhaib · 1 year ago
    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
  • Chas · 1 year ago
    I can fix your files for you.
    chuck at cmasterson dot com
  • Blindnotes · 1 year ago
    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
  • Blindnotes · 1 year ago
    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
  • Chas · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Mike · 1 year ago
    “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.”

    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?
  • Chas · 1 year ago
    Maybe because the author is having a hard time keeping up with wordpress revisions?
  • Techblissonline Dot Com · 1 year ago
    This definitely worked very well for me... but may be people had problems way back when it was introduced...now it is really cool...
  • Tim Turner · 1 year ago
    Nope, it still doesn't work for me and I never received a reply to my submission for HELP.
    Tim
  • mott · 1 year ago
    *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!!!!!!!!!
  • Josh Kaufman · 1 year ago
    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
  • Kim Haverblad · 1 year ago
    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?
  • camani · 1 year ago
    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!
  • Richelo Killian · 1 year ago
    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
  • modsaer · 1 year ago
    hi
    im interested translated this plugin. can i translated?
  • Marco · 1 year ago
    Very useful, thank you.
  • Brent · 1 year ago
    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?
  • William · 1 year ago
    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.
  • online shopping · 1 year ago
    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.).
  • ChrisM · 1 year ago
    >>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.)....
  • Zach · 1 year ago
    AWESOME PLUGIN!!!!! Left me speechless - great stuff. Add a "recovery" feature that works and this will be the best Wordpress plugin bar none.
  • Khaled · 1 year ago
    Thank you guys ... you really saved many hours in upgrading my blog manually
  • pivic · 1 year ago
    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!
  • zegran · 1 year ago
    Great plugin. Thanks a lot.
    http://www.zegran.com
  • Gunawan · 1 year ago
    Good a plugin. So many thanks :)
  • Tom Johnson · 1 year ago
    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
  • Keith Dsouza · 1 year ago
    Tom, this issue has been fixed. Please download the latest version from http://techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpr...
  • julian · 1 year ago
    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 :)
  • Iskak · 1 year ago
    Cool....
  • MartinJ · 1 year ago
    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
  • Blog for Beginners · 1 year ago
    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
  • Anne Robinson · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Cheryl Hanna · 1 year ago
    Just magnificent! I'm really glad you took the time to develop this.
  • hubbers · 1 year ago
    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-asc...

    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?
  • Oz · 1 year ago
    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
  • Bloggero · 1 year ago
    Thanks for this fantastic plugin! I've been using it to upgrade my blog tools website.
  • Frank Eves · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Frank Eves · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Frank Eves · 1 year ago
    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/
  • Frank Eves · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Carl · 1 year ago
    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-d...
  • sesli sohbet · 1 year ago
    thanked post
  • E. Alvin Davis · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Guru · 1 year ago
    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?
  • Nick · 1 year ago
    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."
  • Jerkie · 1 year ago
    I downlaoded Word Press beta and my AVG reports it has a virus!
  • Chuck · 1 year ago
    AVG is not always correct. And watch were you get software from as well.
  • Darrin · 1 year ago
    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.
  • shinya · 1 year ago
    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...
  • 1 T-shirts World · 1 year ago
    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~
  • 1 T-shirts World · 1 year ago
    Oh ya, and remember to add in the rollback features too. I would love that to the most:D
  • dreXeL · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Anna · 1 year ago
    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.
  • nils · 1 year ago
    I just upgraded my wordpress with this plugin.

    It was SOOO painless.. thank you very much for making my life easier!!!
  • Kevin Jarrett · 1 year ago
    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-
  • Keith Dsouza · 1 year ago
    @Kevin the host field will include the FTP host you use to login into your FTP server
  • Kevin Jarrett · 1 year ago
    [smacking forehead] D'OH!!! [/smacking forehead]

    Thanks!

    -kj-
  • Matt Thorn · 1 year ago
    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!
  • Jay · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Alan · 1 year ago
    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?
  • Rick Hepting · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Shelli · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Rick Hepting · 1 year ago
    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...
  • Komik Resimler · 1 year ago
    Thanks for your article. it's very good ;)
  • Komik Resimler · 1 year ago
    thanks for the article ;)
  • Roy · 1 year ago
    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?
  • Fitness · 1 year ago
    thx for the great stuff. Keep up your nice work!
  • subash · 1 year ago
    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
  • Mrinmay Bhattacharjee · 1 year ago
    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 :)
  • mj · 1 year ago
    I'm having the same problem. Did you figure this out?
  • mj · 1 year ago
    mine says that I am already using the latest version, too, when in fact I am not. has anyone figured out what is wrong?
  • Helen · 1 year ago
    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
  • Irwan · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Bekleidung · 1 year ago
    thx for the great article. keep on your great work
  • Erika Jurney · 1 year ago
    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
  • Denver Prophit Jr · 1 year ago
    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.
  • David · 1 year ago
    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.
  • David · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Cher · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Cher · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Anurag · 1 year ago
    Great Plugin Buddy...
    I used Same Plugin To Update My Wordpress Blog...
    Really Helpful...

    - Anurag R.C.
    http://www.pcdrome.com
  • Brad · 1 year ago
    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
  • Fabio M. Costa · 1 year ago
    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
  • Chetan · 1 year ago
    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 !!!
  • Nicky · 1 year ago
    Wow! This plugin is awesome! AWESOME!!! You saved my life. This plugin should be made part of WordPress core. Well done!!!
  • Frank · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Nene · 1 year ago
    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
  • LOKE · 1 year ago
    三克油!
  • Duke · 1 year ago
    There is no better plug-in out there. Period! Thanks for this!!
  • wiktor · 1 year ago
    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
  • Eric · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Mike Bruder · 1 year ago
    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.
  • Sean · 1 year ago
    so awesome
  • Jim Child · 1 year ago
    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!
  • tweakwindows · 1 year ago
    Great one. I was planning to upgrade my wordpress blog.Thanks.
  • Giuseppe · 1 year ago
    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.ph...
    [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.ph...

    ciao
  • Antonio · 1 year ago
    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!!
  • Ian · 1 year ago
    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
  • Katja · 1 year ago
    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. :-)
  • Paul · 1 year ago
    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 ?
  • whlooi · 1 year ago
    This is a fantastic WP plugin. Its really make my life easier for WP upgrade process. Thanks, buddy.
  • Queensberry · 1 year ago
    good articel! nice work!
  • Amanda · 1 year ago
    Oh my goodness, you are a life saver! I've been dreading upgrading, but you've just made it so easy. GBU!
  • Seo · 1 year ago
    It don't work with my site: Fatal error: Cannot redeclare pclziputilpathreduction(), how to fix it?
  • usenet junkie · 1 year ago
    Thanks for this definite time saver
  • fabian · 1 year ago
    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
  • David Kitwell · 12 months ago
    I did the upgrade successfully. Awesome plugin. One problem though! None of the "Tools" links works! Any ideas? Thanks, Dave
  • Eko · 12 months ago
    Thank's, a great plugin...
  • Rajhesh Panchanadhan · 11 months ago
    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
  • userbarna · 10 months ago
    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.
  • Annalyn · 10 months ago
    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...
  • Daniel · 10 months ago
    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?
  • Youfoundjake · 10 months ago
    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..
  • Philip · 10 months ago
    hey PELF..it's obvious, you are a Co-Dependant Moron.
    Get a life!
  • Matthew · 9 months ago
    Beautiful! Thanks very much. Should be WP core. Saved me much pissing around.
  • Tamkeen · 9 months ago
    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
  • Emil · 9 months ago
    Hi, nice article. Now, this would not apply with 2.7.1? or it still does?

    Cheers,
    Emil
  • feed the donkey · 8 months ago
    Great plugin, saves a lot of time…Thanks
  • belajar wordpress · 8 months ago
    Thanks for making this plugin, i already try it and works.
  • leon · 6 months ago
    i was looking for this plugins only ... finally got it .. thanks =)
  • Jotto · 6 months ago
    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
  • Nadeem · 6 months ago
    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!
  • Nitin · 6 months ago
    When do you plan to update this plugin to autmotically update to wordpress version 2.8