I’ve just upgraded to 3.7 and one of the features in this release is the automatic application of security releases. However once I upgraded it said
“This site is not able to apply these updates automatically. But we’ll
email (my email address) when there is a new security release.”
What is it about my site that stops these updates being applied automatically?
I found the answer here:
- If the install uses FTP for updates (and prompts for credentials),
automatic updates are disabled. (I found this answer which will tell you how to avoid using FTP.)
- If the install is running as a SVN or
GIT checkout, automatic updates are disabled
- If the constants
DISALLOW_FILE_MODS or AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED are defined,
automatic updates are disabled
- If the constant WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE is
defined as false, automatic updates are disabled
- Your WordPress
install also needs to be able to contact WordPress.org over HTTPS
connections, so your PHP install also needs OpenSSL installed and
working
- Wp-Cron needs to be operational, if for some reason cron
fails to work for your install, Automatic Updates will also be
unavailable
This plugin will test these things for you.
