When I disable all updates using Easy Updates Manager, it triggers a Site Health Nag: Your site may have problems auto-updating plugins and themes

I used the following code in functions.php and it no longer works:

add_filter(‘site_status_tests’, function (array $test_type) {
unset($test_type[‘async’][‘background_updates’]); // remove warning about Automatic background updates

return $test_type;

}, 10, 1);

Is there a better php code snippet that would work?

Hi! Here’s a general question. At what times are the updates triggered and which triggers are responsible for this. Does EUM use wp cron for this? Are the updates triggered immediately when one is due? Many thanks!

Hi,

“eum_logs” table weight more than 130 mb and take as much as 50% of my database space.

I was wondering if that was normal, if this could cause the website to slow down, and if there was a way to delete it.

Thanks!

The Easy Updates Manager works great on my live site, but doesn’t seem to update my staging site. Is this the way the free version is supposed to work?

Hello,

we are using the current version 9.0.18 of the Easy Updates Manager. Under WordPress 6.5.4 everything still worked, but since version 6.6.1 there are problems. Core and plugins are no longer updated.

If we force the updates only a loading animation appears and this error appears in the log file (It looks like some value is not being handed over):

16-Oct-2024 13:39:21 UTC] Automatic updates starting…
[16-Oct-2024 13:39:21 UTC] Automatic plugin updates starting…
[16-Oct-2024 13:39:21 UTC] Upgrading plugin ‘better-search-replace’…
[16-Oct-2024 13:39:21 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: ftp_nlist(): Argument #1 ($ftp) must be of type FTP\Connection, null given in /var/www/https/***.***.at/wp/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-ftpext.php:438

Stack trace:
#0 /var/www/https/***.***.at/wp/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-ftpext.php(438): ftp_nlist()
#1 /var/www/https/***.***.at/wp/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-base.php(231): WP_Filesystem_FTPext->exists()
#2 /var/www/https/***.***.at/wp/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-base.php(58): WP_Filesystem_Base->find_folder()
#3 /var/www/https/***.***.at/wp/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-upgrader.php(997): WP_Filesystem_Base->abspath()
#4 /var/www/https/***.***.at/wp/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-automatic-updater.php(474): WP_Upgrader->maintenance_mode()
#5 /var/www/https/***.***.at/wp/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-automatic-updater.php(676): WP_Automatic_Updater->update()
#6 /var/www/https/***.***.at/wp/wp-includes/update.php(855): WP_Automatic_Updater->run()
#7 /var/www/https/***.***.at/wp/wp-content/plugins/stops-core-theme-and-plugin-updates/includes/MPSUM_Admin_Ajax.php(1057): wp_maybe_auto_update()
#8 /var/www/https/***.***.at/wp/wp-content/plugins/stops-core-theme-and-plugin-updates/includes/MPSUM_Admin_Ajax.php(144): MPSUM_Admin_Ajax->force_updates()
#9 /var/www/https/***.***.at/wp/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(324): MPSUM_Admin_Ajax->ajax_handler()
#10 /var/www/https/***.***.at/wp/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(348): WP_Hook->apply_filters() 11 /var/www/https/***.***.at/wp/wp-includes/plugin.php(517): WP_Hook->do_action()
#12 /var/www/https/***.***.at/wp/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php(192): do_action()
#13 {main} thrown in /var/www/https/***.***.at/wp/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-ftpext.php on line 438

So forcing does not work either. Only the lock state is activated, which prevents further updates. (We remove the lock state after some time with the ‘Fix Another Update In Progress’ plugin)

The problem does not exist if we update the plugins manually. We can initiate any update manually.

We use the option of an SSH connection. We have been doing this for many years without any problems.

define(‘FTP_METHOD’,’ssh2′); define(‘FTP_PUBKEY’,’/xxx/xxx/xxx.xx’);
define(‘FTP_PRIKEY’,’/xxx/xxx/xxx.xx’);
define(‘FTP_USER’,’xxxxxxxx’);
define(‘FTP_PASS’,”);
define(‘FTP_HOST’,’127.0.0.1:22′);

PHP version is 8.2.

Recently my automatic plugin update lead to a server error (500). This was because the new version of the plugin caused an error. It was not possible to enter the admin area of the website at that moment. After restoring it, Easy updates manager immediately updated the plugin again with the same error as result.

Is there a way to suspend such an update, via e.g. ftp, because after the new update entering the admin area was not possible. It was a vicious circle. With a trick I managed to disable Easy updates manager, but it took me quite a while.

Regards Jan

• This topic was modified 2 months, 1 week ago by janv01.

• As admin
• at URL: website//wp-admin/index.php?page=mpsum-update-options&tab=general
• The other ‘Easy Updates Manager’ ‘tabs’ work, except for ‘General’ which produces a 500 internal Error (URL: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=eum_axios_ajax)
• Tests:
  • Firewall turned off – no difference
  • ajax.php has correct 644 permissions
  • /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php works – but gives a blank page with 2 words: “Security check” for /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=eum_axios_ajax

Question: Any suggestions how to investigate? Thanks!

Screenshot: https://app.screencast.com/ebB2UbZbJcknG?conversation=HzuACU4XMpOoxWHZPVjllz

Hey guys,

I just uninstalled the Easy Updates Manager and I can’t activate automatic plugin updates anymore. Before installing the plugin I was able to configure it in WP Admin. Now it’s not possible anymore after uninstalling it. How do I fix it?

• This topic was modified 4 months, 2 weeks ago by marsronny.

I use Easy Updates Manager on all of my WordPress sites. I host all of my WordPress sites with Kinsta.

Recently I’ve been noticing an issue where the Search and Replace tool in myKinsta dashboard fails, and every time it fails, I reach out to Kinsta support and they tell me it is due to certain rows in the wp_eum_logs table.

Once they delete the conflicting rows from the wp_eum_logs table the Search and Replace tool works perfectly again.

I’ve also tried other Search and Replace plugins like Better Search and Replace and the issue happens here as well.

Is there any way to automatically empty out this table, or not keep logs in this table? I’m looking for any insight as to how I can get around this issue, as I really love your plugin.

Here we go again – WordPress has updated overnight on my production website in spite of the MANUAL update setting in your plugin. How can you explain this?

On my staging site, which has the same plugin, the update is WAITING to be done manually.

How can you explain the difference? Could you please FIX this bug ASAP?

I set all updates to MANUAL, including WordPress for a reason. I must test ALL updates on the staging site first.

If your plugin has bugs you can’t fix that allow WordPress to ignore the manual setting on my production site but allow on the staging site – well, your plugin is of no use to me.

Could you please reply ASAP.

I installed WP on my Synology NAS and it says that I already have the last version, 6.1.1, while the last one is 6.5.4.

Also I get a message says “WordPress *will not* automatically update to new versions. So I think there’s a limit somewhere.

I’ve installed your plugin, and it was complaining something about Cron disabled. So I added this text to my phpconfig file:

define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true);

Now the plugin isn’t complaining anymore, but I can’t find a way to force an update.

Any help?

Thanks

I have 2 websites. both are up to date. Installes Easy update manager on a new site and it is not working! I have compared settings of the 2 websites and they are both the same. I have tried deleting and reinstalling with no luck. Woocommerce continues to update with the plugin activated.

I got an email notification today that the WordPress version on my staging site is out of date.

This was weird, as I didn’t get the same notification about my production site. I checked – and lo and behold, my production site already had the current WordPress version 6.5.3 which was updated automatically in spite of my strict setting for manual updates ONLY in your plugin.

The setting held on my staging site, but FAILED on my production site.

This is not good, as I always need to update everything – WordPress, plugins, themes – on my staging site FIRST to pick up any bugs and incompatibilities with my site before they break my live production website.

The fact that this was a minor update is irrelevant, as I still got the notification from my staging site – and your plugin settings are exactly the same as on my production site.

I cannot afford this sort of bugs allowing auto updates without my testing them first, as I’ve had some serious issues with new updates in the past crashing my live site. So this is a big red flag for me about the poor reliability of your plugin.

Could you please advise ASAP how this could have happened that your plugin settings failed on my live site while didn’t fail on the staging site.

Hi, to me it is not clear why there is no option to not save logs or to turncate the logs, for example keep only the last 100 logs or the logs of the last 6 month.. I don’t think is usefull to keep the logs for many weeks.. or maybe something is not clear to me..

Using Plesk WP Toolkit to manage updates, bit it’s lacking an auto translations-updater.

So I would like to use this plugin to also have the translation updates automated.

Do I have to disable all the Plesk update-settings, or can the plugin run next to the Plesk updaters?

Hi there,

I installed old Elementor plugin and Elementor pro, and blocked update by Easy update manager but After few hours , Elementor plugin auto updated and my site gone broken for this update, Easy update manager plugin is not working on Elementor plugin, Please let me how can I solve the probllem. Thanks

The plugin WP User Frontend is continually updating itself—even though I have it blocked in the Easy Updates Manager plugin. I am having to go in daily and rollback the plugin. I did upgrade to the premium plugin for them but it is a separate plugin and it does not autoupdate—only the free version auto updates. Please help! Running latest version of WP and latest version of Easy Updates Manager.

• This topic was modified 9 months ago by katrinaglover.

Does anybody else had problem, that automatic updates not working on the sites with Crocoblock (for both Hello Elementor and Kava child themes)?
If yes how did you solve it? The support of Crocoblock is unfortunately answered that they do not guarantee full compatibility with third-party plugins. This wonderful plugin (Easy Updates Manager) works on all our other projects with oxygen, astra, betheme without any issues, only with crocoblock we experience this problem ??

I’m wondering what the setting for disabling automatic translation updates means exactly. I want to automatically translate client sites with WPML, but would this setting prevent that? Or is it referring to when the actual translation itself UPDATES to something else? I imagine that WPML translation quality is always improving, so would it automatically update translations that were already translated automatically a while back? I’m fine with disabling the auto updates for that and changing to “manually update”, but would it prevent automatic translations altogether if I did that? Or would it make the automatic translation process cumbersome or damage the quality in any way?

Hi,

is the Plugin compatible with PHP Version 8.2?

Regards,

Jessica

Hello.

I’m using the premium version of this plugin and I set almost everything to auto update.

And I set the automatic update scheduling to happen every first day of a month.

The problem is that everything auto updates whenever a new version of plugin is available. And not once a month.

And, of course, I receive every email with the notice. The second problem is that I set update notification emails to notify me once a week. But I receive them every day.

What should I do?

Just one question. Why should I get this plugin? I mean… isn’t automatic updates part of WordPress core functionality? Or what am I missing here? I am very confused.

Hi, I’m using Easy updates manager on several sites, and it always worked great!
But since some weeks, I don’t see the settings option and can’t access the plugin.
I thought it was interfering with some other plugin or theme and tried deactivating everything to test. It still didn’t work.
Now I even set up a completeley new WP install with just Easy updates manager as plugin, and it doesn’t work either.
https://snipboard.io/H8krle.jpg

What could be the problem?

WP version is 6.4.1

thanks Johanna

I’m using EUM 9.0.17 to prevent a specific plugin from updating, but I recently noticed that the plugin had updated to its most recent version anyway, forcing me to roll back. This project is hosted on GoDaddy with cPanel and without managed WordPress service. Here is the report from Site Health in case it is useful.

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name: CF Masterclass (CF-Masterclass)
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author: admin
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Twenty Twenty-Three: version: 1.3, author: the WordPress team, Auto-updates disabled
Twenty Twenty-Two: version: 1.6, author: the WordPress team, Auto-updates disabled wp-mu-plugins (1)

WordPress automation by Installatron: author: (undefined), version: (undefined) wp-plugins-active (12)

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GA Google Analytics: version: 20231101, author: Jeff Starr, Auto-updates disabled
Kadence Blocks – Gutenberg Blocks for Page Builder Features: version: 3.1.26, author: Kadence WP, Auto-updates disabled
LearnPress: version: 4.2.3.4, author: ThimPress, Auto-updates disabled
LoginPress - Customizing the WordPress Login Screen.: version: 1.8.0, author: WPBrigade, Auto-updates disabled
Multiple Admin Email Addresses: version: 1.1.2, author: Nimrod Cohen, Auto-updates disabled
Really Simple SSL: version: 7.2.0, author: Really Simple Plugins, Auto-updates disabled
Redirection: version: 5.3.10, author: John Godley, Auto-updates disabled
UpdraftPlus - Backup/Restore: version: 1.23.12, author: UpdraftPlus.Com, DavidAnderson, Auto-updates disabled
WPDash Notes: version: 1.3.3, author: WPFormation, NicolasKulka, WPServeur, Auto-updates disabled
WP Mail SMTP: version: 3.10.0, author: WP Mail SMTP, Auto-updates disabled
WP Rollback: version: 1.7.3, author: GiveWP.com, Auto-updates disabled wp-plugins-inactive (1)

Import Export WordPress Users and WooCommerce Customers: version: 2.4.7, author: WebToffee, Auto-updates disabled wp-media

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lite_install_date: Nov 27, 2022 @ 6:56pm

Hi!
Why is EUM sending out alerts twice daily even though no update is required? Twice per day for over a week, I have received this same email:

WordPress site: https://femperium.com/
The following plugins were successfully updated:
 * SUCCESS:  (from version  to 1.20.2) – https://objectcache.pro

Thanks! — The Easy Updates Manager team

UPDATE LOG ==========

? Updating plugin:
? Downloading update from?https://objectcache.pro/plugin/redis-cache-pro-1.20.2.zip?token=e43b8c1...
? Unpacking the update…
? Installing the latest version…
? Removing the old version of the plugin…
? Plugin updated successfully.

Hello
I don’t know what is causing this, but since I went to your plugin I get the 524 error I have tried in php increase timeout to 500 and 900 still no change

I changed to full ssl on cloudflare

if i disable cloudflare on the site I also get a host error I am looking for help can you direct me please thanks

Hi

if I have automatic updates blocked for a few plugins will I still receive notification if an update for a plugin is available?

I wish to have most plugins update automatically, but need to manually update certain ones

many thanks Steve

Hi,
We had disabled Theme updates. But we now want to change it to “Manual Update”. But unfortunately, it’s stuck on “Disable Theme Updates”. Please help.

Hi!

I added SearchWP to my site?https://supersite.icu

Easy updates Manager consistently fails to update the plugin, even though all other plugins update fine. I have Cloudways hosting and Wordfence installed. How can I troubleshoot the issue? Thanks!

I have the Easy Updates Manager installed and automatic updates off, but several plugins continue to update despite this (most do not update as intended). I have tried adding a few lines of code here and there to prevent updates and that has not worked as well.

I have version 9.0.16 of Easy Updates Manager

One that continues to update is “Redirection for Contact Form 7”