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Oddly, I am now receiving intermittent notifications that there are plugins that need updating but when I click to the Update page, the update page says that everything is up to date. The host provider is actively involved in helping and there isn’t anything that they are blocking.

I upgraded openssl and recompiled Apache and PHP to ensure that they are using the new version of openssl. Still no joy.

No, I cannot access themes from W.org through the Dashboard. I have to download and upload. I can manually install plugins through the Dashboard. It’s just updates of plugins that don’t work. I even tried a clean install of WP 4.0.1 under another user and with zero plugins active I got the notification to upgrade WP and the themes. It just did not do anything with Askimet or one old plugin (WP-Optimize) that was installed but not active. Even after upgrading to 4.5.3 there were no alerts to upgrade the plugins.

I have been working with the host to troubleshoot this as well. I have root access on my VPS which is why I was able to turn off the firewall. I also upgraded to php7 and Apache 2.4.

Done. No change to the situation. Since I’ve disabled the plugin I’ll take the opportunity to manually upgrade it.