About a week ago I realized I’d not see an email with the subject “[Ipstenu.Org] Background updates have finished” in a long time. A really long time. Like so long that when I looked in my email trash, there wasn’t one.
This was bad, because on Ipstenu.org I’m running trunk WordPress, which means I should get two emails a day about this. I ran to my server and scanned logs for 30 days. Nothing. And that was really bad.
I’ve been using Advanced Automatic Updates for a long time, and I love it, it works well, but it wasn’t working ‘right’ for some reason, because it wasn’t emailing me on that one site, so I uninstalled it. The problem there is that without it, how would I upgrade plugins and themes? Since I know I can control the upgrades with filters, I decided to make an mu-plugin to handle just that.
And that was when I saw I already had an mu-plugin called upgrades.php with this:
WordPress site: https://ipstenu.org/
The following plugins were successfully updated:
* SUCCESS: Akismet
Perfect!
I don’t know how fun that story was, Benny, but that’s what happened.
3 responses to “No Notice For Upgrades?”
Those emails are darned handy. I’m on stable at the moment, so it was great to wake up in the morning to a sea of notifications about an urgent security update, and also see a pretty little email in my inbox saying that WordPress had been upgraded automatically for me overnight 🙂
@Ryan Hellyer: I admit to filtering them all to a WP Upgrade email folder 😉
Multisite Bonus? One email, ten sites updated!
@Ipstenu (Mika Epstein): I only have a single multisite network, so I only ever get the one single email 🙂