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April 19, 2017 at 4:55 pm #374287

P O
Expired Member

Post count: 501

After upgrading I got this:

“The plugin WP Easy Updates is required to check for and update some installed plugins, please install it now.”

So we will not be able to update anything without having to install an extra plugin even if we don’t want to ?

Thanks.

April 19, 2017 at 5:01 pm #374288

Paolo
Site Admin

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hi,

yes, the way Easy Digital Download auto updates works, didn’t allow to notify you of updates for add-ons that you had installed, but not active, so we created our own plugin to handle auto updates.

The amount of code removed from the add-ons is much more than what you will be adding with this plugin.

Why would you have a problem installing it?

Thanks

April 19, 2017 at 5:02 pm #374289

P O
Expired Member

Post count: 501

The less plugins the better. Just wanted to confirm I have to install it.

Thank you Paolo.

April 19, 2017 at 5:09 pm #374292

Paolo
Site Admin

Post count: 31206

This is very very lightweight and will not impact your website performances. Actually it will probably improved them a bit.

You are welcome 🙂

April 20, 2017 at 10:47 pm #374515

Michael Storzieri
Expired Member

Post count: 27

I use ManageWP for maintaining all our WordPress sites, this plugin looks like it may interfere with its operation.

Why would you go out of the normal methods of updating your plugin over all the other plugins listed on WordPress.org?

April 20, 2017 at 10:50 pm #374516

Paolo
Site Admin

Post count: 31206

Hi,

the core plugin is updated through wordpress.org regularly, the add-ons never were. They’ve always been updated through our website and all add-ons came bundled with the update script.

Now we created a better update script and instead of packing it in each add-on we made it into a stand alone plugin.

You can read more about it here: https://wpgeodirectory.com/wp-easy-updates/

Thanks

April 20, 2017 at 11:09 pm #374517

Michael Storzieri
Expired Member

Post count: 27

is this the same Updates Manager located here?
https://wordpress.org/plugins/stops-core-theme-and-plugin-updates/

April 20, 2017 at 11:24 pm #374518

Paolo
Site Admin

Post count: 31206

No it has nothing to do with that…

That plugin is to Stop showing themes and plugins update alerts.

April 20, 2017 at 11:32 pm #374520

Michael Storzieri
Expired Member

Post count: 27

I will download and see how well it works with ManageWP, if I have any issues I will let you know.

Thanks,
Mike

May 12, 2017 at 6:12 am #378020

P O
Expired Member

Post count: 501

It deactivates because missing files by it self before and now with the latest update:

Fatal error: Call to a member function get() on a non-object in /home/site/public_html/wp-content/plugins/AyeCode-wp-easy-updates-64ad488/admin/class-external-updates-admin.php on line 821

That is basically the problem to force us to have another plugin that brings problems and not solutions. Thats why I asked in the first place. Hopefully the problems disappear and things work as expected in the next versions.

Cheers.

May 12, 2017 at 2:57 pm #378082

Michael Storzieri
Expired Member

Post count: 27

It tried to update, then deactivated itself and now gives this error:

The plugin wp-easy-updates-master/external-updates.php has been deactivated due to an error: Plugin file does not exist.

So now it’s not running or updated!

And unlike your other plugins, this one seems to not have a way to see a Changelog before you do an update.

May 15, 2017 at 9:40 am #378353

Stiofan O’Connor
Site Admin

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@PO there was a release to fix that, sometimes the theme update object is not populated, just update WPEU and it should be fine.

@michael you should be able to see the latest change log before updating, if not it is here:
https://github.com/AyeCode/wp-easy-updates/blob/master/README.txt#L71

If the plugin was installed in the wrong folder it tries to correct its-self but it should have reactivated its self, if not just simply activate it again.

Thanks,

Stiofan
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