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Manu · 2 years ago

Thanks for the update, will try it out and post back.

BTW, the readme.txt file in the plugin folder says "Stable tag: 0.3" and the "wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php" lists the version as 0.3.

Because oif the WP plugins page also displays version as 0.3 even though you are calling it version 0.4 in the changelog.

TechZilo · 2 years ago

Thanks for the plugin....
I havent tested it yet, 'coz i got fantastico to install WP for me. However, for the upgrade to WP 2.3, WPAU is my saviour :D

Karthik · 2 years ago

AFAIK, Fantastico also offers automatic upgrades?
Correct me if I'm wrong...

Nice plugin all the same!

Karthiksn · 1 year ago

Well it does but have you noticed what version it is showing? Its still showing 2.3.3 so WPAU gives you the latest automatic upgrades.

chris · 2 years ago

I downloaded and used the plugin on a test installation of wp 2.02 beta at yahoo, all went well. Then using it on real site all seemed to go well until I tried to write a new post. No longer able to use previous Catagories or create new ones. New pages will all be Uncatagorized! HELP!
In place of the Catagory listings is this message:
WordPress database error:
[Unknown column ‘link_count’
in ‘where clause’]
SELECT cat_ID FROM
wp_categories WHERE
category_parent = 0 AND (
link_count = 0 OR
category_count != 0 OR (
link_count = 0 AND
category_count = 0 ) ) ORDER BY
category_count DESC

I rebuilt the database and upgreaded all links, but no luck, turning off all plugins made no difference,

keith · 2 years ago

Hi Chris,

I tried to search the release archive but I did not find any release version 2.02. From where Can I download the version?

Please let me know so that I can help you fix the problems.

Keith

Chris · 2 years ago

Hi back Keith,

Yes you are right there is nothing in the archive; the only place 2.02b resides is on Yahoo.com. But I could send you the copy of my test install of 2.02b which has only 2 posts - tests. All users of WP on yahoo are stuck with that version - yahoo refuses to upgrade, and manually upgrading is a disaster in the making. The testblog zip is 1.1 megs - I use a mac if that's a problem for you. I exported the db and it is 52kb - .sql.gz

Let me know, and contact me

WordPress Plug-in Advice · 2 years ago

There are so many ideas about so many things. It does sometime happens that an idea really seems worthless, only to be proved later on to be a million $ idea.

Having said that, I beleive the wordpress automatic update plug in is not the plug in I would want to have installed on my blog. The reason is simple. I dont want to have something that is not tested entirely by the community. Although the WordPress itself is such a great application, However with absolutely no third party audits, no body knows what may come out of wordpress in any NEW release. I would not want to, nor recommend anyone just to go ahead and update to newer versions of wordpress as soon as they are released.

This However would not apply to my test sites. I may want to test any new product on the test version of my blog. BTW everyone of you should have a test version of your blog. Most of us dont.

Britt Malka · 2 years ago

Hi WP-iA

You wrote: "I dont want to have something that is not tested entirely by the community."

Isn't that rather selfish? I mean, just letting others do the hard work, experience problems, resolve problems, and when everything is fine, you join the game and get it all for nothing?

After all, you are talking about a "community".

WordPress Plugin Advice · 2 years ago

No dear, it is not selfish, becasue you misunderstood me. I am not talking about not testing something myself, what I am talking here is that on any serious site ... you don't put stuff that has not seen the test of the times.

Please read the last paragraph of my comment.

Britt Malka · 2 years ago

Okay, I see. But I don't agree with you. I consider JohnChow.com's blog for example for a very serious blog. After all, he makes more than $10,000 per month with it, and I know that he has tried plug-ins that was totally new. Yes, some has given him problems, but still his blog is serious.

If you have a backup - which every serious blog should have - you should have no problem testing new plug-ins with your blog.

WordPress Plugin Advice · 2 years ago

Although I even disagree in trying a BRAND new plug-in right away on a production level site. John Chow might only be lucky. He might have tested that on his test site or have just gone though the comments of the people who tried that within that day. Who knows. This is pure speculation what a 3rd person did or did not.

But still think about it. Updating the whole of WordPress core with a snap is far more different then trying a new plug-in.

Britt Malka · 2 years ago

Hi Keith

I tried your latest version of the plugin (0.4), but I get an error message. A new one this time.

It sais:

Warning: ftp_mkdir() [function.ftp-mkdir]: Aucun nom de repertoire specifie in /usr/home/xxx/money-online101.com/htdocs/tips/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 393

Warning: ftp_site() [function.ftp-site]: Aucun nom de fichier specifie in /usr/home/xxx/money-online101.com/htdocs/tips/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 399

"Aucun nom de fichier specifié" means "no file name has been specified".

My webserver is FreeBSB, PHP 4.4.

Does that tell you anything? Feel free to contact me by email, if you like.

Kind regards,
Britt Malka

MTO · 2 years ago

I had this same problem. Same errors. I'm using linux server, so nothing to do with that.

Apart from those error warnings all seemed fine, it does say “done WPAU is ready to roll”, but in view of the above errors I didn't know if it would be safe, so I didn't proceed.
I have no idea what to do, what can be done?

Thanks.

Livia · 1 year ago

I do get a similar error message which say the following:

Warning: ftp_rawlist() [function.ftp-rawlist]: Unable to create temporary file. Check permissions in temporary files directory. in /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 /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 /wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 206

I, too am afraid to continue with the upgrade process...

I know that my host allows tmp directories only in a specific place - could this cause the troubles?

Thanks a lot for a fast reply and thanks a lot for providing such a great plugin!

Jason Hendricks · 2 years ago

Two words for you about this plugin...KICK ASS! I upgraded two sites all the way from version 1.5.2 to the latest 2.2.1with no problems whatsoever. Thanks, a beer fund donation is on its' way. :)

Karen Bryan · 2 years ago

I wanted to say thanks for your Automatic update plugin. As a non techie person I couldn't cope with doing the upgrade which I urgently needed to do as my travel website was hacked through my Wordpress blog. The hackers changed the homepage of my website. It was an awful thing to happen to a small business. I rely on my son for my IT support and he's not always available so the more things I can do on my own the better. I've stumbled this post and I'll write about your plugin in my other blog about blogging for business.

keith · 2 years ago

Hi Karen.

Thanks for the appreciation. I also recieved your email and am trying to figure out the problem for the other blog.

Keith

Karen Bryan · 2 years ago

Thanks, Keith, for trying to assist with the upgrade of my other blog.

Jeremy Curry · 2 years ago

Wow - I was scared to do this, just in case anything broke down, I've done a lot of customization here and there over the last few years, and I didn't remember where and what not I had done stuff - but I tried the plug-in anyway, and it worked seamlessly! Very Nice plugin! Thank you!

g · 2 years ago

Great functions. you've made my admin life easier.

just one feature request. the ability to style the maintenence page.

Rk · 2 years ago

This is the greatest plugin (in the first place, it should not have to be plugin at all ..the WP guys should have made this automated install a part of WP itself..going by the frequent releases they are making)
Anyways, thanks a lot. It worked like a dream !

keith · 2 years ago

Thanks RK I am glad it worked for you, hopefully it should be perfect in coming weeks

Dakar · 2 years ago

Hi,
I'm a very active member of the Israeli WordPress community.
In order to work with WordPress in Hebrew (i.e. RTL) we do some translations and lots of changes in the code for every WordPress version.

Will it possible to change the plugin to work with our repository ?
(code wise and permission wise)

keith · 2 years ago

Hi Dakar,

I have plans to make this plugin compatible for other languages once I fix the major bugs with it.

Thanks
Keith

Jean-François CASANOVA · 2 years ago

Congratulations for this plug-in !

We have used it for 2 of our blogs and that went very well. It is really well done.
We will soon talk about it on our blog (in French) : http://blog.infomedsolutions.com

Keep up the good work !

keith · 2 years ago

Hi Jean,

Glad it worked out well for you and thanks for the appreciation.

ia · 2 years ago

FYI, the static pages somehow became blog posts. Upgraded from 2.0.4 to 2.2.2. Not sure if the wp-admin/upgrade.php was the culprit, though. Any clues? :) I should be freaking out right now, haha. But other than that, this will be a fantastic plugin once it's perfectly stable. Cheers!

Steve · 2 years ago

Tried your plugin, which by the way is great despite the couple of errors I ran across. The first I have my WordPress installation files in a different directory as it can be set in the Options:General page. For example I have my WordPress installations files in domain.com/wp/ and my index.php in the root. So it failed putting the site in maintenance mode. I was able to get pass this just by copying the index into the domain.com/wp/ directory. Oh, also none of the download links were correct because of this too.

The second error I came across was plugin re-activation. I use SBM, so the plugin that deactivates widget support needs activated first. I wonder if this causes K2 users woes as well? At any rate I received an error saying SBM couldn't be activated and to do it manually, which I did and evrything was happy agian. However, because a plugin activation failed the upgrade failed to cleanup the backups and install files, which it kindly did after a prompting when I went back to the Manage page.

Thanks for the awesome plugin. even knowing these couple issues, I'm definately going to continue to use it.

Steve

Ryan · 2 years ago

I'm always leery of upgrading Wordpress because I've had some unfortunate events in the past. But I just used your Automatic Upgrade Plugin on my blog and it couldn't have been easier! I haven't tried posting anything yet so I hope I don't get the problem an earlier commenter mentioned...but it seems that everything is fine.

Thanks for a great addition to Wordpress!

keith · 2 years ago

Hi Ryan,

Glad it worked well for you. There are still some new bugs which have been reported today and I should fix those and release a new version shortly.

Keith

keith · 2 years ago

Hi Steve,

Thanks for your feedback, it's feedback like these that help me make this plugin more stable. I will definitely fix this issue and release a more stable version shortly.

Keith

Jeromy · 2 years ago

My web host does not allow 777 permissions on folder - they require 755 to achieve write permissions (they claim it's safer) - php on my server will not run with permissions set to 777 - will ths plugin know that?

chris · 2 years ago

Keith,
In regard to the 2.02b WP version - is it safe to use the latest WPAU upgrade? I've managed to restore most of my files to a new install of 2.02.

JAX · 2 years ago

Hi,
This is a great plugin. Is it possible to have this plugin work with Wordpress MU also?

Best Regards
JAX

Jeff · 2 years ago

I love this plugin. It seems like deleting the WPAU-backup files might be quite important. I forgot to do that and recently had a problem with my theme reverting back to default WP theme (Kubrick). Based on the research I found that problem usually relates to a plugin, most people cite the WP Mobile Edition but I'm not using that. I thinking that it was the copy of WP in the WPAU-backup files somehow being called that caused a conflict in the db and the theme reverting back to the default (http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3907).

Carl · 2 years ago

I've been using WPAU on my personal blog since 0.1 and haven't had a problem. When I copied the 0.1 folder over to another site, I got a blank page when I tried to go to the plugins page. I deleted the folder and that page came right back up. I downloaded 0.4 and put it on the site, same problem. The plugins page is the only one affected.

I'm using php 4.3.9 with apache 2.0.52 on a linux server. It's shared hosting. I'm running WP 2.1.3. I had tried upgrading to 2.2 when it first came out, but it made a mess of my site. I was hoping WPAU would be able to do it better. Any help appreciated.

keith · 2 years ago

Hi Carl,

Do you see any errors while activating the plugin

Carl · 2 years ago

Keith, if only I could get to activate it :). All I've done is copy the wordpress-automatic-update folder to my plugins folder.

keith · 2 years ago

Hi Carl,

Sorry I missed this from your earlier commetn the latest version now is 0.5 this has the latest patches you should try this one out.

Keith

David Carrero Fdez-Baillo · 2 years ago

Please check the security for this plugins.

1. WordPress Automatic Upgrade: Permite a cualquier usuario no autenticado:
* Generar y descargar los archivos de WordPress (incluye wp-config.php).
* Generar y descargar una copia de seguridad de la base de datos donde está instalado el plugin.
* Activar/Desactivar todos los plugins.
* Actualizar la versión de WordPress.
2. OneClick: Al ser vulnerable a CSRF, permite descargar plugins — o código malicioso — desde cualquier URL.
3. Who Sees Ads: Es vulnerable a CSRF y XSS.
4. MyDashboard: Es vulnerable a CSRF y XSS.

BillSaysThis · 2 years ago

Oddly, this installed and ran just fine on two of my blogs but on the third I cannot activate the plugin, it gives a fatal error every time. I have 2.2.1 on this blog (2.2.2 on the ones which worked). Not a very descriptive error report but any ideas on correcting it?

Dave Zan · 2 years ago

Sigh, I installed this latest version. But I'm still getting that fatal error message whenever I try to activate it.

Is it because of my host, maybe? I'm using Jumpline.

Britt Malka · 2 years ago

Hi Dave Zan

I had the same error with other plug-ins, until I changed the .htaccess file and gave WordPress more memory to work with. I put this code in the start of the file:



<FilesMatch "\.(php|html?)$">

php_value memory_limit 32M

</FilesMatch>



Dave Zan · 2 years ago

Thanks, Britt! Plugin activated, script worked, blog updated. :)

BillSaysThis · 2 years ago

I'm having the same issue with the fatal error, and using Britt's idea resulted in a 503 error. This is a WP 2.2.1 install, I had no difficulties activating and running WPAU on two WP 2.2.2 instances on the same server (though they're in a different doc root).

Shriram · 2 years ago

WOW!
This plugin works like a breeze. Everything seems ok on first glance.

All this while, I didn't upgrade coz I found the process too cumbersome. You have done a great job Keith.

Hats off to you :)

James · 2 years ago

Two issues.
I seem to be missing this from the url which causes it to fail "edit.php?". On build .4. This seems to happen on each step. I have to add it manually to advance.
http://www.*****.com/wp-admin/page=wordpress-au...

Once i get to DB backup i get this issue.
CGI Error
The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers.

Not sure what that is all about. Wanted to let you know about these, thanks!

Ajay · 2 years ago

Does the plugin knock off all the contents of the wp-includes and wp-admin folders before adding the new files?

keith · 2 years ago

Hi Ajay,

The plugin does not delete old files, it overwrites all the existing files with new ones. The first step always backs up the new files so you have access to the older files too.

Billy Dennis · 2 years ago

Thank you for this plugin. Well done! I'm wondering, hoping against hope actually, that this can be tweaked to work with WordPress Multi-User (WPMU)?

keith · 2 years ago

Thanks Billy, but I have yet tested it out with multi user

Billy Dennis · 2 years ago

Spoke too soon, I think. I'm running 2.2.2 now and I'm trying to upgrade to 2.3.1. The process now fails at Step 2 (backing up the database). It does the same whether if I doing it automatically, and step-by-step. I can manually backup the database just fine using DB Manager. Any advice anyone?

Finis Price · 2 years ago

I tried the auto upgrade and it says it failed at Step 3, anyone have any ideas how to fix that?

Finis Price · 2 years ago

I get an error saying the update failed while downloading the update, Step 3. Anyone know what to do to get by this?

Pat · 2 years ago

I am having the issue where the site got stuck on maintenance mode. I followed the instructions:

Login to your site using FTP.
Delete the index.php file.
Rename the index.php.wpau.bak file to index.php
Performing these steps should remove the maintenance mode message.

It got rid of the message indicating that the site is in mailtenance mode, however I am simply left with a blank white page with no data.

Has anyone else run into this issue? and is there a solution?

effemmeffe · 2 years ago

I tried your plugin: everything goes well, but at the end the blog was still in maintenance mode so I tried to follow the FAQ, but when I connect with FTP there was no index.php.wpau.bak file...
I replaced the index.php with the backup one and all comes back, but I want to file this bug to you.
Regards.

Alex · 2 years ago

I went from 2.2.2 to 2.2.3 no problem. On another blog, set up the same way on the same server but in a different subfolder off my account root (/site1 and /site2, you get the idea), my upgrade of the v2.0.6 blog takes me after the "ready to roll" page to a 404 page on my blog and dies.

I have no idea where to look to start troubleshooting this. I was choosing the "manual" step-through-it-one-step-at-a-time link to proceed.

Ideas? Thoughts? It really was pretty slick the first time I ran it, and I'm kinda bummed it's effing up on this one. :(

Thanks for any help!

-alex

Pablo Pasqualino · 2 years ago

Hi Keith, thanks for the plugin, its really helpful!

One tip for the people that still get the FATAL error when trying to activate the plugin even adding Britt's tip to increase "memory_limit".
You also need to have Short Open Tags enabled on your php (Keith, if you remove the use of short open tags, it will improve the compatibility for different php installations).
You can add Short Open Tags support creating an .htaccess file on your wordpress admin directory (wp-admin) with the line:
php_flag short_open_tag on

I hope it helps!

ncollision · 2 years ago

Great plugin - works without a hitch on my two installations so far! Thank you!

Ying · 2 years ago

Thank you for the plugin! It's save a lot of time :)

September · 2 years ago

hey. may i know what is ftp host?

September · 2 years ago

Hey. may i know what do i fill in in ftp host?

Santos · 1 year ago

Using you website address or you can using your website IP address

P|xeL · 2 years ago

Nice plugin. Thanks for your work! ;-)
Bye,
P|xeL

Doug Smith · 2 years ago

Has anyone used this plugin with blogs created at Network Solutions? They are languishing at a version before 2.2 and don't seem to have plans to move up.

Guest · 2 years ago

I tried to install this in my wordpress 2.2.2
But the installation failed saying error:
Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
Ain't this plugin compatible with WP 2.2.2 or is there any other hidden steps?
Sachin

conancat · 2 years ago

hey thanks for the great plugin!! :D i'm really web illiterate when it comes to ftp or mysql sorta stuff, the manual at the website really makes me dizzy haha... this really helps a LOT!! :D thanks!

Simon · 2 years ago

Won't work for me. Installed and active. Now what? What happens? Links are to blank pages. call me dumbb and all, but are there any clear explanations of what to do?

john · 2 years ago

Will this work to upgrade to 2.3?

keith · 2 years ago

Yes john this will upgrade to 2.3 too

John · 2 years ago

Holy crap!
This was the easiest time I have ever had upgrading my wordpress install.
I look forward to all of the new releases now!

THANKS!

Martin · 2 years ago

thanks for making this, hope it works as well as everyone says!

nika · 2 years ago

oh man, I am not getting this darn thing to work.

Plugin seems to enable ok. When I click "Click here so that we can start the upgrade." I get a file not found error with this:

The requested URL /wp-admin/page=wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php&task=files&_wpnonce=SECRETNUMBERS was not found on this server.

keith · 2 years ago

@Nika you should find this fixed in the latest version.

Doug Smith · 2 years ago

I ran the utility and the next day I started seeing this serious database error. I am sure Network Solutions is going to tell me I'm on my own now since I upgraded the product myself. Is there a script available that I can use through my database widget to crate the missing table?

WordPress database error: [Table 'wp_00478a7_0.wp_post2cat' doesn't exist]
SELECT cat_ID AS ID, MAX(post_modified) AS last_mod FROM `wp_posts` p LEFT JOIN `wp_post2cat` pc ON p.ID = pc.post_id LEFT JOIN `wp_categories` c ON pc.category_id = c.cat_ID WHERE post_status = 'publish' GROUP BY cat_ID
80

When I ran the utility it did its preliminary check and found no issues. It wasn't clear to me which button to use to start so I clicked on the first start option which took me to the front page of my blog. That screen sat there for about 30 minutes so I clicked back and selected automated. The knobs, dials, bells and whistles finally began. One screen had to do with updating the database. It completed without error.

I created a few posts after the upgrade and didn't see this occur yesterday. I'm going to disable Admin Tiger (I think its called) to see if that is related to this issue. That widget was installed after the upgrade.

Network SOlutions does not allow us to access the WP database except through WOrdPress widgets. I have access all day to databases I create using the database PHP interface but not WP.

I'm new to WP and know just enough to be very dangerous. Any help would be appreciated.

Doug Smith
edior@popularwireless.com

keith · 2 years ago

The error you may be seeing is because of incompatible plugin with WordPress 2.3 to solve this I would suggest you disable one plugin at a time and see if the error goes away.

If the error persists you can re-enable that plugin, but I would be quite sure that you will be able to resolve the issue by using this method, since I myself had a issue and disabling few plugins those errors went away.

keith · 2 years ago

Yes Karthik it does but not all hosting providers have Fantastico

Karthik · 2 years ago

Absolutely - I was just answering Sumesh's comment ;)

The plugin is a much needed one, especially with the frequent updates that WP releases - full credit to you!

christen · 2 years ago

This is a handy plugin alternative to going through the steps of upgrading. I'm looking for an easy way to set up maintenance for a client's site, so I tried upgrading my site to test out the plugin.

The first time I tried running the plugin there was a little hiccup because I was running php in safe mode and hadn't realized it until that moment. This stopped the upgrade process. I fixed the issue and continued, but once the upgrade was finished I was stuck in "maintenance mode".

I ran the plugin a second time, and that time things went great resulting in a site upgraded from 2.2 to 2.3.

I'm still not sure if this is a plugin I would recommend to someone who isn't confident or hasn't ever tried upgrading WP manually. In my case, it did speed up the process by a few minutes, which is cool.

keith · 2 years ago

Glad you liked it christen.

Alex · 2 years ago

I'm getting the error below after click "click here to run the clean up process before continuing":

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: current_user_can() in /home/blue/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php on line 999

Can you help me with this error message??? I tried to find a solution before ask, but I coul not find it.

Thanks
Alex
Bluetoothlounge.com

srini · 2 years ago

I have experienced the same problem. I am trying to upgrade from version 1.5.2. What should I do differently?

I did run it on another WordPress installation on the same domain, and it worked just fine, though I was just testing the plugin on a brand new installation of the latest WP version.

Thank you.

daniel · 2 years ago

Absolutely GREAT
Thank you MONSIEUR
combined with oneclick this is the tool for dummies like me

Wish you a nice day

keith · 2 years ago

Thanks a lot daniel.

Max · 2 years ago

Great concept.

I have tried to upgrade my Wordpress v1.5.2 using your plugin v0.7 but it fails with the error "Could not backup your WordPress files. Failed at Step 1."

Any ideas where I'm going wrong?

Doug SMITH · 2 years ago

I ran the plug in on my first blog inside my Network Solutions account and it ran perfectly without having to supply FTP information. I installed a second blog one directory level deeper for another URL within my account and the plug in wants my FTP information. The FTP information is provided but fails each time. The same login information is used for WS_FTP Professional and I can get into the sub-site just fine. Network Solutions uses an FTP address for the account that does not contain the domain praweb.org.

According to the FTP client the directory permissions are 765. The same as the permissions for the first blog. First blog lives at

/htdocs/blog1 and the new one at htdocs/pra/prablog the second domain praweb.org points to htdocs/pra so I guess /pra is the default directory for that domain. (Doing this with a second domain is new to me so that may be the issue.

Why is FTP asked for in this case and why would it fail? This is a virgin blog, just created it with the blog creator at Network Solutions. Nothing different from the first blog except that this one is one level farther down.

sldesigns · 2 years ago

BRILLIANT. Just great. Will recommend and use for my other sites.

Not related to plugin: te100.kontera.com is REALLY slowing down my browser tonight

sldesigns · 2 years ago

Brilliant plug in.

This site though is SUPER S L O W. Contributed for your work. But please get rid of kontera

Dave · 2 years ago

Thanks for the plug-in. Most hosts are still stuck providing 2.2 with the auto installers.

MJ Klein · 2 years ago

plug in worked amazingly well! took up a total of 5 minutes of my time, including d/l the backup files and upgrading the database. scary!

thanks for a great plugin Keith!

mo · 2 years ago

supper cool!!!
Thank you for all the hard work - the ftp login was like icing on the cake..

YAY!!!

nyunyu · 2 years ago

Hi keith, Thanks for this wonderful plugin. Seeing so many positive feedback makes me want to try. I have local installation of wordpress on my vista, after activating and tried to upgrade, it failed at step 2 which is it failed to backup my database. Any suggestion on where did I've done wrong? your reply is very much appreciated.

Thanks again.

Anna · 2 years ago

Hi. I could not even get past giving my credentials. I gave the site my ftp user and password, and the directory which looked to be only/html. I did not see the words, public at all. Is that is okay? Used the ftp host as my ftp.mysite.com It kept saying wrong credentials. I know the user and password works because I tried it on myphp admin file. Help! Thanks.

valerie · 2 years ago

Can't activate the plug:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/.../public_html/wphome/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php on line 1222

azwanhadzree · 2 years ago

Tried and it works. Great work on this plugin :) . It makes upgrading to the latest version a breeze.

Anyway, I got a problem with the backup files that your plugin made. both the wordpress php files and database backup. After downloading the zip files, I can't extract it. Downloaded it twice but still the same. I use both enzip and winrar to unzip. Any idea?

Anna Hackman · 2 years ago

I figured out why I could not even start. It does not show properly under IE 7. The boxes are too small so you can't put any of your info in the boxes. Plus maintenance mode does not even work with IE 7 either only firefox.

I can't get past putting it into maintenance. I saw above that someone had the same issue but my index.php is in my root directory. I did notice where the new wp files got put did have a blank index.php and index.htm. They showed up in the a separate folder called wp in the backup files. Could this be the problem? How do I get my site back to the way it was. My newest post is all there is right now. anna

Kirk M · 2 years ago

Hi Anna,

I came across your question and I don't know if it's been answered yet but I can almost guarantee that Bad Behavior is causing the problem by blocking WAUP from properly querying your blog and it's database. Bad Behavior has a very bad habit of blocking legitimate queries as well as those automated SpamBots and also causing corruption in the database just enough to throw all sorts of different errors and there's no way you can know what's causing these problems. I ditched Bad behavior because of this.

Anyway, I see your website has all the posts back but if you wish to use WAUP I suggest you deactivate Bad Behavior first before attempting the upgrade. Personally I suggest also that you lose Bad Behavior altogether and go with Aksimet and bcSpamBlocker (you can find the latter at the WP extensions Plugins Directory) instead. I've had excellent results with this combination.

Just thought you'd like to know.

Anna · 2 years ago

Hi kirk-thanks so much for helping me. Actually the problem was my server. It was not giving the plug-in permission to complete what it was doing. However, in IE 7, the FTP information boxes still look weird. I had to use firefox but once I did with the server permission (my host had to do something) everything worked out okay.

I will look at the other spam plug-in you suggested. Thanks again for taking the time to help me. Anna

Kirk M · 2 years ago

You're very welcome. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and all that. :D

michael · 1 year ago

hey,

i have used this plug in with great success on one of my newer blogs (on a new hosting service) (from 2.2.2 to 2.3.1) ,

Worked really easy, no problems at all, thank you ;)


But on some of my other blogs (older hosting service, also older wp 2.2.1) f.ex. this one:
http://blog.miguelovitch.dk/2007/12/27/act-now-...

i get this message:
Your server is running in safe mode. WPAU cannot continue in safe mode. Please ask your system administrator to change the setting to disable running in safe mode

i am not sure, is this something i can do my self or is it my host?

Also i have another quistion, i have made some changes in the sidebar,
These files are located in the theme folder,, just to bee 100% sure: the theme will remain the same after update?

thanks again,

wish you the best

michael pedersen

BillSaysThis · 1 year ago

Even after upgrading to 0.8 with ALL other plugins deactivated I still get the fatal error and cannot activate WPAU. Still works perfectly on two other WP instances on the same host/account.

floriana · 1 year ago

excuse me, but I need an help "for dummies"
I'm not able to find my "ftp credentials"
the first is already written, and is admin (I think it's right)
the second is the password I use when I go to wordpress to admin my site
the third is ftp base directory: in transmit I use the first folder, so I think I need to write /,
the fourth (ftp host) ??
is it username, password, name of the site? or what?
excuse me, but I'm only a poor italian radiologist and what is obvious for you is not so obvious for me...
I've searched it on the web but I can't find an answer.
Thanks, floriana

floriana · 1 year ago

hi, I'm a beginner
I've a problem in finding ftp credentials,
the first two, I think, are right like they appear: admin and admin's password
third and fourth for me are more difficult
third; only / if I use root directory ???
fourth is the worst : - ((((
ftp.sitename? or "username","password"?
I'm a radiologist, so it's not my work...but I'd like to upgrade anyway!
it's difficult to find on the web these informations, so simple for you but terrible for me, thanks, floriana

Sue · 1 year ago

Wow, wow, wow is all I can say. Tried it on my local installation, worked like a charm. Did it on my hosted sites, went just as smoothly. I always hated to upgrade...it took so long to reactivate plugins (if I could even remember which ones I had working). Now off to make a donation for your work on this project. Thanks so much.

Bill · 1 year ago

Had some niggling performace issues after using this to upgrade from wp23 to 231.

Can I use this to upgrade from 231 to 232?

Apparently once I used it for the 23 to 231 upgrade it disappeared from plugins folder and it's weird that I would have to reinstall and activate for another roun d from 231 to 232

Stephen Hopson/Adversity Unive · 1 year ago

Yes Bill, you can. I just did - for the FIRST TIME. It was a bit nerve wracking since I didn't know what to expect but it was actually pretty easy and I breezed through it. The only thing that made me nervous was the backup and other "verficiation" links that were present throughout the upgrading process. They all led me to 404 error pages. I decided to keep pressing on and ignored these error messages and everything was fine.

As long as you backup your files/database using the backup plugin before you upgrade, you'll be fine. Now if I could only find something that tells me how to use the backup files in case I need to restore my blog. I have NO idea how to do that.

jessie · 1 year ago

thanks for this. i really appreciate the effort you've put into this plugin for the benefit of other WP users like me. i'll write something about this plugin in a few days.

jessie · 1 year ago

oh, i might as well write about this in a few minutes :-)

Jecca · 1 year ago

Hi. Nice plugin there.

But in the process, I got stuck on the task putting the site on maintenance mode. So I tried to follow the instructions on the FAQ but when I connected to the FTP, there was no "index.php.wpau.bak". How can I fix this?

Thanks a lot. I hope you can help me.

Jerome · 1 year ago

Just wanted to say thanks for the plugin. Not really knowledgeable enough to trust myself with a manual upgrade, so this was really godsend.

Dave C. · 1 year ago

Wow, I've done the manual install a dozen times and I stopped doing it as often because they upgraded WP so often. This makes the whole process completely painless.

Ben · 1 year ago

First up, thanks for this great plugin.

Can anyone tell me why I see this when I click on the plugin tab?

Warning: exec() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/mydir/public_html/myblog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 82

fra · 1 year ago

I just wanted to congrat with you. This plugin saved my life many times. I dont trust myself when I have to do upgrades. with your plugin you made upgrade a painless must!

fra · 1 year ago

thanks a lot, this plugin made the upgrade a painless must!!!

Michael Aulia · 1 year ago

Was a bit scared to try at first, but after backing up my database/files, I tried this plugin.

It worked like wonders.. next, next, and all done! Don't even need to upload the files, read the upgrade faq, etc :)

Natti · 1 year ago

Thank you bunches for this awesome plugin ... it's the easiest way to upgrade to a new WP-Version.
The only thing is that it does not upgrade when the hosting server has the safe mode on. In my case my hosting server will not change this mode, so is there another way to upgrade with your plugin?

Lydus · 1 year ago

Thanks for the fine plugin. I've used it now a couple of times, and it has worked perfect. The last upgrade (to 2.3.3) had some problems though, since for some reason there was an error upgrading the database (500, internal server error). It didn't give me any further problems, just thought you should know. Thanks!

doz · 1 year ago

Me too!
...and I cannot get out of that error!
:(

Iftahlana · 1 year ago

...great! its all work. it takes only about 30 minutes to auto upgrade my old version. recommended plugins!! ;)

Joelle · 1 year ago

My client has her Wordpress installed in a subfolder http://domain.com/wp/ So I'm not sure where I should adjust the paths so that the upgrades are done... right now, it's assuming that Wordpress is installed in the root.

I'm sure there's probably a simple fix for this, but I'm struggling to find any information on it. Will you please point me in the right direction or provide instruction for this in your docs?

Thanks! :)

Glu3 · 1 year ago

Thanx for the update ... You did a great job. Thank you.

doz · 1 year ago

I think you should make it restore files' chmod, after the upgrade...
Some ISP doesn't like 777

Jauhari · 1 year ago

Really Useful Plugins. I like it

Chris Masse · 1 year ago

Hi there,
I run a group blog, and I saw that the "Automatic Upgrade" page does appear on anyone account. It should appear only on the administrator's account. Thanks.

Dave · 1 year ago

When the plugin changes permision on the files and directories, does it change them back once the update is complete?

If the site had been working just fine with more stringent permissions, I don't see why I should want to make them less stringent beyond the running of the upgrade.

If this is not a feature would you consider it for a future version? Perhaps it could just write a temp file with "filename|origional-permission" for each file it changes and then change it back when its all done.

Riri Audiya · 1 year ago

why I get this error message? "Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error."

I use WP 2.3.2

TheBloggerTips · 1 year ago

Great plugin! It save a lot of works and time. Thanks!

TheBloggerTips · 1 year ago

Great plugin! It save alot of works and time. thks!

Nelson · 1 year ago

Thank you very much.

Bill Hazelton · 1 year ago

I would recommend not using this plugin. I was running version 2.0.3 of WordPress and the Automatic Update plugin installed just fine until the end of the process when I was prompted to activate (or reactivate) the existing plugins from the old version of the site.

After clicking on it, I got a blank page ... checked out the blog's main page, inner page, category page, admin/login -- every single page was blank. I thought the pages might have been stuck in maintenance mode so as indicated about I tried moving out the existing index.php file and renaming the index.php.wpau.bak file to index.php. Still blank pages.

Long story short, I ended up having to do a hard restore of all the blog files. Of all the plugins I've ever installed, some haven't worked out, I've never had one crash the site entirely. The blog has been done for almost a full day now and we're still in process of the hard restore. There's no guarantee that will work either.

Proceed with extreme caution if you're considering this plugin. Great idea in theory but it's been an abject nightmare for us.

Dion Drakes · 1 year ago

I wish I found your blog about a week ago... your plugin would have saved me from manually having to rebuild my blog. Oh well, tough break for me but thanks for the great work!

DesignAndPromote · 1 year ago

Mine fails saying it cannot download the latest update

diditho · 1 year ago

great plugin...!!
run smoothly upgrading from wp 2... something.. to the latest wp 2.3.3

grosh · 1 year ago

When You write new version? This ver. not wrking with WP 2.3.3 :(

Chris von Nieda · 1 year ago

Just wanted to say thanks for the PlugIn. I had 50 WordPress blogs to update all with numerous plugins and this saved me a ton of time. Using the automatic update feature I was able to do 2 or 3 at a time.

A donation is forthcoming!

Chris von Nieda
Link Building Experts

Adam · 1 year ago

I installed the plugin quite a while back, and it never quite worked. I don't remember the errors I got, but it just wouldn't work.
Trying it now results in this:
Seems you have not completed the clean up process from last upgrade. Please click here to run the clean up process before continuing.
It doesn't matter how many times I click where it says "click here" I get the same thing every time.
FWIW, I'm running WP 2.3.3 on a hosted server.
Any suggestions?
TIA!
--Adam

Dave · 1 year ago

I have the same problem:

"Seems you have not completed the clean up process from last upgrade. Please click here to run the clean up process before continuing."

It doesn’t matter how many times I click where it says “click here” I get the same thing every time.

Currently using WP 2.0 - which is why I'm desperate to upgrade! I guess I'll just do it manually this time.

Chris Merriman · 1 year ago

This is a duplicated comment from the main thread, as I've just noticed someone had a similar problem (see comment above) with WP 2.3.3...

""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.""

edy · 1 year ago

I just installed this plugin to upgrade to WP2.5
it seems it wouldn't work and says: Your server is running in safe mode. WPAU cannot continue in safe mode. Please ask your system administrator to change the setting to disble running in safe mode
what should I do?

Cymen · 1 year ago

Wow! It works very well. My host had an old version of WordPress in Fantastico and the normal upgrade process wasn't working properly. I decided to give your plugin a try before digging into the problem and bam! No problem left to dig into :).

Highly recommended.

Razvan Antonescu · 1 year ago

Hello, I have the latest plugin version (1.0). I am currently trying to upgrade a few blogs from 2.2 to 2.5. Unfortunately when I go to the upgrade page, i get this:

Wordpress automatic upgrade

Upgrades your wordpress installation automatically

TASK OUTPUT
TASK STATUS
We conducted some preliminary checks on your server. Below is the output

There are no other links or buttons to allow me to continue. Any ideas, suggestions?

William Rodgers · 1 year ago

I keep getting this error when trying to upload this plugin:

Warning: main(lib/pclzip.lib.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/marketse/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_helper.class.php on line 11

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'lib/pclzip.lib.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/marketse/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_helper.class.php on line 11

I am having extreme problems getting any of this to work.I just want the latest version of WordPress...is there any service which will update me to the latest version for free????

Jauhari · 1 year ago

Useful Plugins ;) I will test it

eko · 1 year ago

thx... great plugins.. i want try it

Michael · 1 year ago

Thanks for the Plugin. I used it to upgrade 8 blogs from 2.02 to 2.5 and everything went well at least I thought so.

Now none of my internal navigation links work on any of my sites. All links to my pages and links to 'continue reading' blog posts, and links to read or make 'comments' no longer work. Any idea how to correct this?

richschmidt · 1 year ago

This plugin seems to work for me... but I can't seem to unzip the zip files it creates as backups. All I get when I unzip them (on either Windows or Mac) is an empty folder. But here's the weird thing: the empty folders have wildly different sizes. It's as if the files are there but invisible? I get the same thing on Windows and Mac.

I'm hosted on Dreamhost. Don't know if that makes a difference. I don't know what you use to zip those files, but it doesn't seem to be working quite right for me.

Marshal · 1 year ago

Thanks! Great Plugin!!

Kaia · 1 year ago

I love this add-on, really helps save time and frustration.

One small annoyance. I have my actual blog installation on sub-folder from my domain and have it point to the top of the domain. Whenever the step-by-step upgrade gave me a link (such as a link to download the database back-up) it didn't use the proper url structure. I had to add in the correct url. Nothing critical, but it was a little annoying.

Keep up the good work with this plugin!

Ether · 1 year ago

THIS IS AWESOME! THANKS!

Brian Ward · 1 year ago

Help! I got some way through then got a 500 internal server error after updating the database.

I followed all the instructions and don't know what to do next.

thanks

Oli · 1 year ago

Thanks, I love you!

Dusty · 1 year ago

Thank you for this plug-in. I was so paranoid about doing the latest upgrade because I had heard some major horror stories from other bloggers.

It went off without a hitch, thanks to this plug-in.

;)

Thomas · 1 year ago

Thanks for this great plugin, spares a lot of time and hassle.

Jagung · 1 year ago

I've install the plugin and the upgrade went fine. you've been a great help. thannx to the Techie Buzz.. or err.. Keith Dsouza :)

Adam · 1 year ago

wow, that was simple to use. I didn't really want to go through the process of a manual upgrade, so i probably wouldn't have done it. But this plugin made it so easy. click, click, click, done. Thank a lot!!

daren · 1 year ago

Hey Keith

Just wanna say a BIG THANK YOU for this plug in. initially i was apprehensive in upgrading to the latest Wordpress version, thinking of the daunting task ahead. But after finding and using your plugin, it was like WOW! Really simple to use!! And i managed to upgrade my blogs.

BIG THANKS!!
:) daren

Garth · 1 year ago

Just wanted to say thankyou. This plugin is awesome.
Thanks
Garth

William Rodgers · 1 year ago

I finally got this one to work and it upgraded CipherSearch.com effortlessly until yesterday! Now my index page won't show although I've tried all the advice/tweaking from WP support. Any help would be appreciated.

Before this I got some very positive reviews from forum members on its site design and content,at least while it was actually visible :(

The Beej · 1 year ago

I installed the latest plugin, but get a fatal error. Is this a permissions issue, and if so what to they need to be set at? Error Below:

Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.

Warning: main() [function.main]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/wpau_helper.class.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/MYURL/httpdocs:/tmp) in /MYURL/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php on line 105

Warning: main(wpau_helper.class.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: Operation not permitted in /MYURL/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php on line 105

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'wpau_helper.class.php' (include_path='.:') in /MYURL/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.php on line 105

Sinma · 1 year ago

I have tried installing the plugin but failed at step 7. I think there's some issues with my bbpress??

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 am not a techie any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks heaps

Derek Rogerson · 1 year ago

Works great!

Thanks!

Sinma · 1 year ago

I have it figured out.

It's a question of compatibility. Before installing the plugin, just make sure you upgrade bbpress to the latest version if you have it on your site.

It would have helped me a lot if this was highlighted to me in the early stages.

Mark LaFlamme · 1 year ago

I love the idea of this because I've been struggling with the upgrade for months. I downloaded the sucker, got it going and then hit a dead end. For me, it all falls apart after the "get the latest version from wordpress.org" page. It takes a half minute to download and then the screen goes blank. No subsequent problems with the existing blog, but no upgrade, either. If anyone has a solution to this, I'd love to hear it. m.laflamme@verizon.net

Mark LaFlamme · 1 year ago

I was psyched to hear about the plugin because I've been wanting to upgrade from an early, early version of WP to the latest. I haven't had much luck doing it on my own so this looks like just the thing. The problem I keep encountering comes at the "get the latest version from wordpress.org" step. It seems to be downloading but then the page that comes up is utterly blank. There is no going on at that point and there are no changes, good or bad, to my existing blog.
I tried disabling a few plugins such as Bad Behaviour" but the problem persists. Thought I'd run it by you people in case there's an easy solution that I missed.

Chris · 1 year ago

One word: AWESOME...

This is just unbelievably!!! This would pass as the #1 plugin ever made for Wordpress! Thanks so much for the amazing job.

Viet · 1 year ago

Hi! Thank you very much for your plugin! I've updated my blog just in 2 minutes! Keep up great job!

Viet.

Conrad Dionne · 1 year ago

I upgraded my two Wordpress site (from 2.2 to 2.5.1 and 2.3.1 to 2.5.1) in less than 10 minutes.

Works like a charm !

Thanks for this great piece of software

Level1Diet.com · 1 year ago

I have used this on several of my web marketing and health related web-sites. Basically, it has been very useful.

However there is one little problem. It never appears to completely finish the upgrade and go away, returning to the site. Instead, I have to go back to the dashboard or site manually. All the upgraded files are installed correctly. It just hangs on the final page. odd problem.

Still it seems do the actual update itself okay. Thanks.

DEMON · 1 year ago

It's perfect plugin! I upgraded my site without any problems :) Big and many thanks!

Wojtek · 1 year ago

This plugin totally rules! :D Thanks for that, dude. You have saved me an extraordinary amount of time!

Rene · 1 year ago

Tried your automatic upgrade plugin on my WordPress blog and it is all messed up.
first ran it, didn't complete the plugin manuever, had to reactivate plugins one at a time. tried it again, and it worked, but now the media stuff doesn't work at all. media screen comes up with my template and no file found, and lightboxes are so messed up it's pathetic.

Tried a restore, and still messed up and not restored to older version.
Fantastico is looking better and better. Lucky it was not my major blog.
Tried your forums, but there's nothing there.

Seems like there is lots of varied reactions and results. Why is that?

Buffoon · 1 year ago

Thank you so much, if I had loot I'd give it to ya,,, next time your in central Florida, we have some homemade moonshine and opossum jiblets just for you

Keith Dsouza · 1 year ago

Hey Buffoon, Thanks I'll drop by when I come down to Florida :)

Carolyn · 1 year ago

I've used this plugin successfully a number of times and I think I'm having karma for not donating, on the same server I used it to upgrade to 2.5.1. I'm stuck in maintenance mode and have tried every suggestion I have been able to find.... Help!!!!

Fachia · 1 year ago

I think it is not the posting which has very informative content. But the plugin itself is very useful. I just never think how difficult is to upgrade WP installation without this plugin.

Nikos · 1 year ago

I don't get a valid zip archive when this plugin does its backup.

intelliace · 1 year ago

Wonderful plugin! I was getting ready to wait for the weekend to upgrade my WordPress and what do you know -- this wonderful plugin let me do it without thought or worry while eating dinner! Highly recommend this thing to anyone! Thank you THANK YOU!

MK · 1 year ago

This plugin was a lifesaver for me. I manage a medium-sized website with several blogs on it, and was NOT looking forward to upgrading all of them manually on my very slow internet connection. This took like 5 minutes, excluding backup. Wow!

Jonny · 1 year ago

I am getting this message:

Cannot open file (E:\inetpub\vhosts\website.com\httpdocs/wpau-backup/index.php). Please create a empty E:\inetpub\vhosts\website.com\httpdocs/wpau-backup/index.html file manually

I do not know how to do what is requested. There are no wpau files in the root to change or add to.

Jonny · 1 year ago

Anyone know what this error message means?

Cannot open file (E:\inetpub\vhosts\website.com\httpdocs/wpau-backup/index.php). Please create a empty E:\inetpub\vhosts\website.com\httpdocs/wpau-backup/index.html file manually

Kirk M · 1 year ago

Cannot open file (E:\inetpub\vhosts\website.com\httpdocs/wpau-backup/index.php). Please create a empty E:\inetpub\vhosts\website.com\httpdocs/wpau-backup/index.html file manually

(Did you happen to get your back forward slashes mixed up with your back slashes in that path?) :P

Jonny,

Until Keith can reply...

If you just installed the plugin and attempted to activate, it means that for some reason it could not create the /waup-backup/ sub-directory and the "index.php" file within that it needs to work properly. If the plugin has been working fine and now there's an error, for some reason the sub-directory is no longer there which I would find passing strange to say the least. So try this:



1. Deactivate the plugin.

Note: If you have "Bad Behavior" anti spam plugin installed, deactivate it and reactivate WAUP and see if it activates properly. If so, BB is keeping it from writing to your install. My advise to to ditch BB and with Akismet and "WP SpamFree" instead. Works like a charm.

Anyway...

2. Create the /waup-backup/ sub-directory manually as it states to in the error. Once that's done, create a new blank text file and name it "index.php" without the quotes of course and upload it to the new /waup-backup/ sub-directory you created.

3. Reactivate the plugin.

Let me know if this works for you. If it doesn't your root directory may not have the needed write permissions.

HTH

Jonny · 1 year ago

As to the slashes. I copied and pasted what was shown in the error. I did not notice they were odd until you mentioned it. Funny, I guess it is a typo in the plugin.

By the way, I did get another error before this step that said that /httpdocs was not recognized but below it was a link saying ready to roll so I continued. That is what I put as the base directory where Wordpress is installed in the root. I tried leaving it blank but then it gave me this:

Warning: ftp_site(): 'SITE CHMOD 0777 ': command not understood in E:\inetpub\vhosts\lonestarsage.com\httpdocs\wp-content\plugins\wordpress-automatic-upgrade\wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 168

Warning: ftp_chdir(): /wp-admin: The system cannot find the file specified. in E:\inetpub\vhosts\lonestarsage.com\httpdocs\wp-content\plugins\wordpress-automatic-upgrade\wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 205

Warning: ftp_chdir(): /wp-includes: The system cannot find the file specified. in E:\inetpub\vhosts\lonestarsage.com\httpdocs\wp-content\plugins\wordpress-automatic-upgrade\wpau_prelimcheck.class.php on line 205

and said that wordpress update could not update my site and that a fix was being worked on. So I put /httpdocs because that is where the root directory shows up in my ftp client.

Ok, I deactivated it and reactivated it to see if that would work as to your first suggestion. It is the only plugin I had activated. The only other plugins there are Akismet and something called Hello Dolly, both are deactivated.

Now as to 2. Sorry, I am horrible with computers. How do I create the /waup/-backup/ sub-directory?

Kirk M · 1 year ago

Hey Jonny,

I just went to your site. Brand new isn't it? Are you perhaps new at this do-it-yourself-custom-WordPress-install thing yourself or just horrible at computers as you say? :D

Tell you what...I had a lot of help when I first started doing this myself a few years ago and I've passed these favors I received onto other folks just starting out or who just didn't have a head for the tech stuff so why don't you wander over to my site and shoot me an email via my contact page. The comment section here is okay for questions just about WAUP but I believe you might need a bit more info than just about the plugin itself and I'll be glad to help.

I won't actually be able to get into this until tomorrow (I'm busy working up another WordPress powered site where all my tech/geek posts can live) but let me know where you're currently at as far as knowledge goes and we'll go from there.

Jonny · 1 year ago

No Kirk, it is actually not a new install. I just have not done anything with the site for two reasons. First, I hate the long pause that normally happens before the site loads (no plugins, no content) and I am hoping the new update of WordPress will fix that a bit. Second, and more importantly, I can't figure out what I might want to blog about.

The install was very easy and went well. I tested the site when I first set it up and all seems to work fine.

Anyway, I will be happy to take you up on your offer for help about blog sites but first I really want to get this automatic update working.

türk rap · 1 year ago

Great plugin! It save a lot of works and time.
Thanks...

Jonny · 1 year ago

Glad it is working for others. I still can't get it to work for me so if anyone is willing to read my posts above and give me pointers, I would so appreciate it.
Thanks

Not A Niche · 1 year ago

Everybody who has problems with this automatic upgrade plugin should try out another one, which is mentioned on this post:
http://afrison.com/how-upgrade-wordpress-26/670/

Have fun with your upgrade!

Griffin · 1 year ago

Thanks for this plug-in - very helpful!

The maintenance page that the plug-in creates during installation has a spelling error.

It says something about an "inconvinience," but it's supposed to be spelled "inconvenience."

Simple issue, I know, but I figured you'd like to know.

DJ Slimchopstick · 1 year ago

Thank you very much for this awesome plug-in! save us heaps of time! :)

Alan · 1 year ago

I found what it looks to be a serious bug: After finishing the upgrade the plugin leaves the public_html folder with permissions 777 - these should be changed back to the original state I think, right?

jdnforjc · 1 year ago

i Installed the Plugin and activated, continued to upgrade and got this:


Warning: fopen(/www/free-site-host.com/j/d/n/jdnforjc/htdocs/wordpress/wpau-backup/index.html) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /www/free-site-host.com/j/d/n/jdnforjc/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_helper.class.php on line 79
Cannot open file (/www/free-site-host.com/j/d/n/jdnforjc/htdocs/wordpress/wpau-backup/index.html). Please create a empty /www/free-site-host.com/j/d/n/jdnforjc/htdocs/wordpress/wpau-backup/index.html file manually


i get the pint of creating the file manually, but does it need to be empty or does it have to have some type of information?

Scott Sheaffer · 1 year ago

Keith,

What will happen if a WordPress release is automatically updated and some of the other plugins I'm using are not compatible with the new release of WordPress? How does or what provision does WAUP have for that?

Matt Briggs · 1 year ago

DO NOT TRY THIS SOFTWARE!

DO NOT TRY THIS SOFTWARE!

I just tried it and it completely screwed my database. I lost all my comments (thousands), categories, and it seems to have screwed up other aspects of my database. Trying to click on any link brings you to an endless loop.

Try it at http://wmbriggs.com

The backup files are also corrupt! I cannot unzip them because of this.

I tried emailing the person wpplugins@techie-buzz.com noted as the designer, but this email fails!

So I am dying here and nothing I can do about it.

Beware of this software.

Sonny · 1 year ago

This is probably the most useful plugin for all the non-techies or those that don't have access to cpanel/fantastico. It has saved me hours of time as a webmaster. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Blogging Advice · 1 year ago

Why did it take someone so long to come up with this.

I love this plugin. A time and headache saver.

Thank you soo much.

sparrow · 1 year ago

Hello,

Wondering why the link to the Plugin Support Forum was removed, it might explain why the forum is quieter lately. :)

Not this: http://techie-buzz.com/forums

This: http://forum.techie-buzz.com/

No Reimer Reason · 1 year ago

Wow, just used this plugin for the first time. What an amazing time saver. Thank you so much!

katya · 1 year ago

Upgraded to 2.61 a minute back
Worked like a breeze!
Thanks

Richard McLaughlin · 1 year ago

I just used this tool to update 30+ sites for a friend. I had most of the issues that were cleared in the FAQ or here. Also most of the issues you could imagine. Never lost data and averaged 2 minutes on the update process and far outlier of about 15 minutes - for no obvious reason.

I have one issue on one site that has a Please log in again. message after I try to log in using firefox, I login on the wp-admin page and this message is on the wp-login.php page. Oddly enough I have no problem getting in using Opera. For other site I had this same issue, say one time out of 6 or seven, and I just erased the cache and I was in. For this one site I am locked out.

The best thing is this is my called Crash Test Dummy, because I use it to test all things new and I sort of expect it to crash.

Other errors I got often enough to be in the FAQ would include After install I have a message "Nothing Here" on my home page but my theme and sidebars are still there and answer is the reload the page with F5 or click on a sidebar link. I saw this one VERY often, say one in 4 or one in 5.

bob · 1 year ago

Thanks a lot for this plugin! ^_____^

Stu Schaff · 1 year ago

Thank you for providing this plugin. I am glad that there is an effortless way to upgrade WordPress.

One recommendation: you should provide a much clearer download link. I scrolled up and down a number of times before finding it.

Thanks again.

Bingu · 1 year ago

Thank you for your great work!
It's my favorite plugin.

hip hop · 1 year ago

Thanks a lot for this plugin!

Chris · 1 year ago

Hi there i have a big problem!!
i have successfully used this great plugin many times, but the last site that i tried it on has a big problem..
Ok at the end of the upgrade it logged me out of the site and then asked me to login again, when i tried to log back into the admin panel it would not accept my password. i tried resseting the password through the wordpress "forgot your password page" but when i follow the new password instructions it still tells me that the password is incorrect??

Could you please help me solve this problem and if i need to restore the backup files that were created during the upgrade process could you let me know how i go about doing this..

Hope you can help.. thanks..

Keith Dsouza · 1 year ago

@Chris

This seems to be a known issue with a upgrade to WordPress for some sites, are you using Firefox? If so please try another browser. You can check the following links to learn more and trouble shoot the issue.

It is basically related to cookies, try these out

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/202104
http://www.chrismcintyre.com/2008/08/16/wordpre...

merapuland · 1 year ago

is there a forum for support?

Keith Dsouza · 1 year ago

Yes there is a Forum http://forum.techie-buzz.com/, it is also clearly marked in the comments form.

merapuland · 1 year ago

thanks. my mistake for not noticing it earlier.

Chris · 1 year ago

Thanks for the help links..
I have now got the site working again by just re-uploading the backup files that i downloaded during the upgrade.

The site is now back to normal with every thing working apart from i still need to upgrade my version of wp.

Hope this may be of some help to a few of you that are having problems..

Raffy · 1 year ago

Hi Britt

I also received the message 'Seems you have not completed the clean up process from last upgrade' but i don't have an .htaccess file....

Where should i create one?

Thanks

Ben · 1 year ago

Thank you for providing the plug in

I have a serious problem though. While stepping through the wizard it logged me out of the site. Unfortunatly when I tried to log back in my password did not work. I'm positve that I have used the correct password and not done anything silly like have CapsLock on. Eventually I requested a new password sent to my email address, but this does not work either. What could have gone wrong. How do I get access to my site?

Kind regards
Ben

Ben · 1 year ago

I still can't log onto my site after the attempted upgrade. I've requested new passwords that don't work either. Other accounts (for comments) don't work either. I've even manually changed the hash code for the password to something known in the database and I still can't log on.

Any suggestions?

Steven · 1 year ago

I agree with Jax and Billy, Automatic Upgrade for Wordpress MU would be awesome and much appreciated.

Edward · 1 year ago

Many thanks for the plugin, now I can update my site with just a few clicks

Swift Arrow · 1 year ago

I cant say thank you enough. Wish I could fund some of those hours... Hopefully someday!

SEO Services Provider · 1 year ago

Thanks for the help links..

Miklo · 1 year ago

Hi there,
I just uploaded the folder to the plugins directory. Activated it. And now what? I don't see anything happening, should something else be done? Please let me know how this works and how I'll know when it is done?

Thanks!

Miklo · 1 year ago

Forget the above post. Didn't see the link in the plugin page. Got it, and looks like it worked beautifully!! Thanks!!

GRL · 1 year ago

Great plugin. It works flawlessly on two of my WP installs. On the other one, I'm having an issue.

This seems like an obvious question, but I do not see it here. What happens if your plugin asks for FTP creds, but your system doesn't allow FTP connections? I connect using SFTP.

I would expect that, in this case, you would give instructions about what permissions needed to be changed. Is there a work around here?

I'm sorry if this question has been answered elsewhere, but I could not find it. Cheers!

bintang gland · 1 year ago

thank's for plugin it's usefull for me

Dan the Magician · 1 year ago

Thanks for the great plugin. It really makes maintaining a blog a lot easier.

I feel a bit cheeky asking for this (since this plugin already saves loads of time and this is only a very minor point), but could you put a select all option on the page with the checkboxes to select additional database tables to backup?

I have several plugins which use additional tables and this would streamline the process even further.

Rap · 12 months ago

Absolutely GREAT
Thank you MONSIEUR
combined with oneclick this is the tool for dummies like me

Wish you a nice day

Care at home · 11 months ago

I am running Wordpress V 2.5.1 and I am trying to use your Auto Upgrade, but the plugin will not activate and when I try to activate it I get a page with the following information on it:

"This problem can be caused by a variety of issues, including:

Internet connectivity has been lost.
The website is temporarily unavailable.
The Domain Name Server (DNS) is not reachable.
The Domain Name Server (DNS) does not have a listing for the website's domain.
If this is an HTTPS (secure) address, click Tools, click Internet Options, click Advanced, and check to be sure the SSL and TLS protocols are enabled under the security section.

For offline users

You can still view subscribed feeds and some recently viewed webpages.
To view subscribed feeds

Click the Favorites Center button , click Feeds, and then click the feed you want to view.

To view recently visited webpages (might not work on all pages)

Click Tools , and then click Work Offline.
Click the Favorites Center button , click History, and then click the page you want to view. " I hope this makes sense - also for your information I even tried to de-activate all the other plugins

Care at home · 11 months ago

I have just noticed something different on that blog when I have gone to the next one to upgrade, which is V 2.5 and not 2.5.1 - on this net blog there is an "edit" button next to each plugin, whereas on the blog version 2.5.1, where I cannot activate the plugin there is no edit button - this may or may not help with the previous commented problem

T · 10 months ago

I have this installed on every blog I setup, but on some blogs it says that the current version is the updated version when it really is not. I don't know why. What do I have to do to get it to recognize that the current install is not the updated version?

Thanat · 7 months ago

which งาน plugin is the best? I look at many website but it's very simple plugin.
I prefer wordpress.

Neon Sign Man · 7 months ago

Thank you for providing the plug in

I have a serious problem though.

john · 7 months ago

here's another question to add to the faq.

where the hell is this?

I mean seriously, I'm usually good at spotting the download but this page is so littered with noise I can't find the needed needle in an otherwise useless haystack of ads and gimmicks.

so seriously, where's the download link?