Upgrade notifications

I see popping up names on the forum of people who may have an idea, so I’m so blunt as to make a *bump*.
People, do I have to look at my installations, plugins, browser, server settings or somewhere else?

Right, so tell me, is this a stupid question or a difficult one?

It’s not stupid or great either, coz my website missing several “important” things such TinyMCE Kitchen Sink.
I use the WP Automatic Upgrade plugins to upgrade..

So I still haven’t thought of a cause, let alone a sollution. None of my WP installations gives me either a WP notification of a new version (when 2.5.1 came out and I hadn’t installed it yet) or a notification of an outdated plugin. One thing that I did notice that it seems like my file permissions changed somehow. This won’t have much to do with upgrading to 2.5 I suppose, maybe my host has done something (or myself unconsciously), so my next question is, could folder permissions have anything to do with the fact that I no ‘outdate notifications’ anymore?

I have been fooling around with two plugins upgrade plugins (Global Plugin Update Notice and One Click Plugin Updater) neither of which tells me anything about upgrades, not even for plugins that I know are outdated. So I was looking around some more and ran into this thread and it made me think, what if somehow my installations miss the api.www.remarpro.com address in some file? So I’ve looked through my files and dashboard to see where this functionality is organised, but I can’t find it. Does anyone have an idea where I should look if there’s something wrong with the address or something?

well, technically there’s no requirement for your server to be configured with the ability to resolve hostnames. Maybe your server simply can’t make a DNS request.

Got stats software running? do you see the hostnames of your visitors? if so, ignore what I just said – but if they’re all IP addresses then you may have a problem.

My host offers the standard stats and I can see the host names.

The weird thing is that this problem only occured since I moved up to 2.5, I had no problems before. Around that time I upgraded Ask Apache (and downgraded again), changed anti spam (from captcha to WP Spam Free), added Bad Behavior and changed themes (that is to say, I reworked on the original version of the theme that I already used). I can’t imagine that having anything to do with things and of course I tried what happens when I deactivate the plugins, but no sollution.

And just to add it again, I also had this “Akismet issue” that I couldn’t connect to their server (that why I use WP Spam Free). I don’t know if that could be a pointer to the problem.

that’s definitely a pointer to the problem.

Something you have there is preventing your wordpress from making outgoing connections. Could be an over-zealous security related plugin, but you won’t know until you turn them off.

Well, I tried that of course, but to no avail, that’s why I’m trying to think of something different; something that changed with 2.5 or something else.

Another pointer (earlier mentioned), the widgets on my dashboard don’t do anything (they load and turn white) but the I do get the newstitles on the bottom of the dashboard.

like the dashboard widgets, I’m drawing a blank…

I can’t begin to make a reasonable suggestion other than server configuration and plugins.

Too bad. I don’t care that much that I can’t use the automatic upgrades, but now I have to check manually for newer versions of plugins (and even WP) while this used to work just fine. Hopefully somebody else has a suggestion. Thanks for thinking with me anyway.

I hope you find your answer, and if you do, please come back and post about it, because I’m itching to know what it is.

I’m having the same problem. Updated my site from 2.3 to 2.5 and update plugins ,otifications doesn’t work. Deactivating all plugins doesn’t work. One lcick updater gives me yellow notifications at the right of the plugin, which means it shouldbe updated, but no notifications.

In the widgets dashboard same thing, no fetching outgoing plugins.

Via diagnosis plugin I see that I have furl_open enabled so it should work, but it doesn’t.

Any ideas?

There’s more that works in your case than in mine! I did manage an automatic plugin updater to work in my test, but without notifications. Also in this test, I deleted my complete WP installation (well, almost completely) to make sure it isn’t a WP thing. Fresh new upgrade, no changes, so it can hardly be WP (or perhaps I can try again with a new download). But then we have this guy who seems to have found a sollution to a similar problem, but I’m not sure what I can do to try this out. Should anyone have a clue, I’d be glad to give it a go.

????!!?!??!??
When I logged in to my test site half an hour ago, I got upgrade notifications all over the place. Somehow both the standard WP 2.5.x and the upgrade plugins that I installed to try out started working. I haven’t done anything, not upgraded WP, a plugin, a theme or whatever. In fact, I haven’t touched the test site since I investigated this very problem. Of course I checked my other installations and they also miraculously started working.
The only thing that I can think off is that my hosting company (re)started something that got this function working.