WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin Problems
As many know there is a WordPress Plugin for automatically upgrading WordPress. I have recently used it on one of my test blogs with no issues. But I have experienced issues using it for a client.
The problem I experienced using the plugin was with a Fantastico install on GoDaddy economy hosting. First I will say that if you intend on using GoDaddy hosting please do yourself a favor and opt for the package at least one step above the economy package. The economy package has given me fits every time I work on it because of some of limitations it has. Same goes for Yahoo small business hosting. In fact I have refused to do anymore work on Yahoo accounts!
WordPress Automatic Upgrade is a handy plugin that takes most of the guesswork out of upgrading WordPress. The only thing I will caution you on is upgrading from any version prior to 2.5. There were major changes in WordPress version 2.5 and it left some plugins in the dust. This can be the case in any upgrade but it is especially so for version 2.5 and above. So I suggest you always check all your plugins for compatibility before an upgrade.
So the issue was the Fantastico install was it was version 2.5.1 and I tried to use the WordPress Automatic Upgrade to upgrade to 2.6. When I ran the plugin all went well and the upgrade worked but I couldn’t login to the blog after the upgrade. I don’t know exactly why and perhaps someone can comment here and shed some light on it. My guess was that if you used Fantastico to install the blog then you should not use the WordPress Automatic Upgrade to upgrade. Since the hosting account uses a log of the current WordPress installation another version caused issues.
My fix for the predicament I caused and was in with the client’s blog I tried to upgrade was an easy fix in this case but I suggest you don’t try this on an existing blog. Since this was a fresh install on a new blog I just deleted all the content in the database and then when I went to the blogs URL I was presented with the WordPress installer page. There may be similar or easier ways around the problem but I got lucky in this case. Another option may be to export the old database, save it, then purge it. Run the installer and then import the database back in again once you gain access to the dashboard.
This may have been an isolated incident, but if others have had similar issues and a better fix please comment.
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I think the login issue was caused by a change in the way cookies are set in 2.6 so clearing cookies should have resolved it. There are extra security phrases in wp-config.
I cleared my cookies before trying to log in so I don’t know if it arose but I did read that people who upgraded manually had the same problem.
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I contacted my host and asked them to update Fantastico to the WP 2.6 install option. They did that pretty quickly and I was able to install the latest version of WP
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March 11th, 2009 at 11:55 am
I don’t understand why so many hosts don’t keep their fantastico up to date. my host got an outdated version too. thats why fantastica was always useless to me.
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when i visited the homepage of the plugin there were lots of comments & some said that they hav successful upgrade with fantastico too.
but the author mentioned not to try the plugin with fantastico installed wordpress.
you can comment there to get some help! they reply quickly.
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hi
I have had great experiences with this plugin. maybe it was another edition, but it worked on my blog. I am not aware how it worked so i am sorry that i can’t help you guys
peter
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Not only am I not able to log in but all of my preexisting plugins are gone… I made a backup but i wasn’t aware that the backup was not finished when i completed the update. I don’t know anything really about wordpress and just recently figured out how plugins worked so having an automatic update function was ideal but now im stuck. have no clue what to do.
I’ve cleared all private data on firefox and nothing.. As I type this comment out I’m trying one last thing that someone on twitter recommended. His suggestion was to delete all plugins for they’re causing the error.
Ok, so I copied all of my plugins off the server onto my computer, deleted them off the server and i was able to log into my WP site. Then i put the plugins back onto the server and everything is working great…
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Clearing cookies (thnks andrew) for my domain in my browser worked like a rock-start…thanks, glad to get past that mini-panic attack.
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