Automatic update failed?

July 12th, 2008 by Michael Hampton

Some WordPress users have reported in the last few days that using WordPress to update automatically to the latest release of Bad Behavior is failing.

A typical failed upgrade looks like this:

Downloading update from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bad-behavior.2.0.19.zip

Unpacking the update

Deactivating the plugin

Removing the old version of the plugin

Installing the latest version

Installation failed

If this has happened to you, please check your wp-content/plugins directory, manually remove any directories named Bad-Behavior or bad-behavior that may be present, and then download and reinstall the plugin.

Also, when installation fails in this way, the web server will record error messages in the server’s error_log file. If this has happened to you, please find the relevant information in your error_log and send it to me, so I can figure out what’s going on.

Thanks for your support!