Re: Warning for IBM i WordPress Users

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Aaron - it makes no sense at all but then neither does anything else!


On Aug 21, 2015, at 9:06 AM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Not sure if this will help, but I had a similar problem years ago.
>
> http://blog.mowyourlawn.com/?p=580
>
> Aaron Bartell
> litmis.com - Open Source and IBM i. No Limits.
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > For some time now we have been wrestling with trying to find out why our
> > WP site was automatically updating itself, but that all plug-ins failed
> > during the last step of the update for no obvious  reason.
> >
> > We have spent many hours and $s on this without resolution and have had to
> > resort to manually updating the plug-ins.
> >
> > Why am I mentioning this? Because after the last round of updates a number
> > of features on the site stopped working. Password resets, blog post
> > notifications, etc. It turns out that the WP update process has been
> > “lying” to us - the main wP software was no actually being updated it just
> > said it was. As a result we appear to be in a situation where the plug-ins
> > are for a more recent version of WP than the one we were actually running!
> > The net appears to have been that various functions failed.
> >
> > We have now manually updated the main WP software and most of the “broken”
> > functionality is working again - not all of it and we suspect that database
> > corruption during the mis-match period may have caused this - we’re still
> > working on it.
> >
> > So - this is just a heads up to any of you using WP that you may not be as
> > up-to-date as you think! And that may lead to other problems later.
> >
> >
> > Jon Paris
> >
> > www.partner400.com
> > www.SystemiDeveloper.com
> >
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Jon Paris

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