Easy Updates Manager not working with GitHub updater

  • Resolved apedog

    (@apedog)


    4 years, 8 months ago

    I have several custom plugins that use https://github.com/YahnisElsts/plugin-update-checker/ to update directly from their GitHub repos.

    The custom updater is set-up properly on all the plugins and works with the custom plugins.
    The plugins update properly when updating manually from the plugins.php screen.
    The plugins also update properly when updating them manually from the default WP Admin update-core.php page.

    Easy Updates is set on my installation as ‘Custom’ and ‘Choose per plugin’.
    The plugins with the custom update-checker are set to ‘Plugin Updates: Allowed’ and ‘Automatic Updates: On’ in the Easy Updated Manager Plugins tab.

    However running wp_update_plugins WP-Cron event does not update the plugins.
    Is this expected behaviour (ie. Easy Updates runs on an event other than wp_update_plugins)? Or is this a bug/compatibility-issue?

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  • Plugin Support bcrodua

    (@bcrodua)

    Hi,

    Apologies for the late reply.

    I will check with our developer regarding this.

    Thanks,
    Bryle

    Thread Starter apedog

    (@apedog)

    Followup:
    I’ve cross-posted this issue to the plugin-update-checker library repo: https://github.com/YahnisElsts/plugin-update-checker/issues/353

    Also worthy of note:
    I have a theme using plugin-update-checker to update directly from a github repo. Easy Updates Manager updates the theme automatically (as expected). Only the plugins do not.

    Plugin Author David Anderson

    (@davidanderson)

    EUM neither asks, knows or cares what mechanism is telling WP that updates are available. It’s very likely that the plugins involved are deciding to only add their hooks when the user is logged-in to the admin area. I’ve seen a lot of third-party plugins that do this in order to reduce the load on their updates servers by reducing the numbers of updates checks. The best way to proceed is to read their code in the affected plugins to see, or ask their authors to confirm that they always load their updates code, not just on admin pages.

    David

    Thread Starter apedog

    (@apedog)

    Thank you.
    I will take this up with the updater library author and see if it requires user log-in.

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