Have you ever wondered why plugins/themes fail to update OR you receive a yellow FTP warning on some installations and not on others? I’ve asked several developers from within the wordpress community this question before and no one really has an answer for me. Typically the sites that I have that won’t auto-update are housed on servers outside of our network at Pleth so it’s not something I can really troubleshoot so I haven’t given it a lot of thought and just continued to update by clients projects (wordpress core upgrades + plugins & themes) the old fashioned way, via FTP.Well, this evening I was checking out some support documentation on WP-Manage’s website and found this and thought that it might be useful to those of you that have ran into this issue before. Albeit, it’s a little weird (at least to me) to include FTP information in a wp-config.php file, but some of you might want to give this a try if the auto-update thing has driven you absolutely bonkers…
Why do my plugins/themes fail to update OR why do I receive a yellow FTP warning?
If you cannot update your plugins/themes, the first thing you should try is to update them from your WordPress interface, to validate that it is an issue with ManageWP specifically, and not the site itself. The most common cause of this problem is that your website requires FTP information. You can correct upgrade issues by adding FTP information in your blog’s wp-config.php file. [Note: Do not add this to the end of the file, but just below the database information on the top of the file.]
define('FTP_USER', 'username'); define('FTP_PASS', 'password'); define('FTP_HOST', 'ftp.example.org');
I haven’t personally tried this yet, but if any of you do, please let me know if this fixes the issue…
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