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  • November 22, 2014 at 1:11 am #355735
    IconicD

    Now that WordPress can update itself automatically, we really need to be warned in advanced that problems could arise.

    Thankfully I noticed the site issues straight away but dread to think how many people out there have vital missing elements from their business homepages etc who will only find out when a customer complains.

    I’m assuming, due to the speed at which a bug fix was released, that you had advance warning over this (perhaps developer access to latest WordPress releases) so I really think we should have been warned and prepared.

    Also what in your honest opinion is the likely-hood of this issue happening again?

    November 22, 2014 at 3:17 pm #355892
    IconicD

    Really would like some feedback on this.

    November 22, 2014 at 3:55 pm #355902
    iflw-gmbh

    Hi IconicD,

    not being offensive I would expect admins in production environments to disable the WP automatic update feature and play with updates in a testbed instead.

    Best regards
    Joe

    November 22, 2014 at 7:59 pm #355996
    IconicD

    Hi Joe

    Judging by the number of people posting about current compatibility issues​ perhaps we can assume that many admins are running standard install of WordPress – where updates such as the latest are installed automatically by default.

    Simply relying on this not to be the case isn’t a very proactive approach to deal with the issue in future.

    Your response seemed more defensive than offensive but perhaps are more helpful one would be to explain how to turn off WordPress automatic updates?

    From what I’ve found on-line it seems you need to edit config file to do this but if I’ve missed an easier option in the WordPress admin area then please let us know.

    Cheers
    Paul

    November 22, 2014 at 10:28 pm #356038
    Elliott

    Hey!

    Currently I don’t think there is an option for it in the dashboard but you can try this plugin out, https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-automatic-updates/.

    Regards,
    Elliott

    November 22, 2014 at 11:54 pm #356051
    IconicD

    Cheers Eliot

    I also found that, but it seems this was actually WordPress security update so would definitely rather not disable.

    Back to square one and my initial point that advanced warning for this in future would be highly appreciated.

    November 23, 2014 at 3:49 pm #356239
    Ismael

    Hi!

    Actually, there is no such thing as “developer access to latest WordPress releases” if I am not mistaken. Theme developers will see the latest versions, bug fixes, changes, addons once they are publicly released unless they are part of the WordPress core team which I doubt because they are too busy with the theme as it is. So only after the public release, theme developers will be able to see update issues and fix them. If you’re a developer, the best thing to do is to disable wp background auto update. If you’re not a developer, we will try our best to warn you about wp auto updates and probably teach you how to disable it.

    Cheers!
    Ismael

    November 25, 2014 at 11:08 pm #358018
    Joe Birch

    Hi guys, can you give me the steps to disable the wp background auto update?
    thanks so much

    November 26, 2014 at 7:29 am #358178
    iflw-gmbh

    Hi fixedopinside,

    have a look at WPBeginner.

    Regards,
    Joe

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    November 27, 2014 at 5:04 am #358818
    Ismael

    Hey!


    @Joe    : Thanks for helping out!

    @fixedopinsight: You can follow the link. :)

    Cheers!
    Ismael

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