Wordpress takes care of automatic updates. I’ve just got one: => 4.2.2
Since this happens automatically, I’ve got a question: could an update like this lead to sudden incompatibility of your theme or the associated plugins?
Thanks in advance for your answer.
Hello,
An automatic update such as this could create issues if there are any. In the previous update, worpdress broke the pagination in our theme and we had to implement quick-fixes/updates in order to compensate for it. Fortunately this update fixed what the previous one broke and we have no reports of any errors caused by it.
Thank you!
Could this be a reason to disable automatic updates?
Yes. This is a strong reason to disable automatic updates. This way you will know if the update creates a problem. If the update is automatic, you could wake up one morning and your website will be broke all of a sudden and you will not know why. If you update manually and the site breaks, you will know exactly why this is.
I hope this helps.
Thank you!
OK, thanks!
Just in case someone might need this in the future – if things should go awry because of a WordPress update, watch this video about downgrading easily:
Also useful to keep backups of your site periodically via FTP; for all your plugins, theme, and WP; export settings from theme and via the WP settings admin panel. Also learn to make periodic backup of your dbase via phpmyadmin (like WP warns you to do before upgrading WP!), so that you can easily “revert” back to a prior version.
It’s useful to turn off ALL automatic backups as frequently plugins like Yoast going to full dot upgrade, WordPress introducing a bug (like 4.1.1 did), or things like ACF4 not allowing copy/paste of Excel/tabular data in WYSIWYG boxes with their most recent update paired with WP 4.1x.
Any update can break a site!
Similarly things like WooCommerce, you need to review the changes with full dot updates (like 2.5) to see what you might need to change with theme files.
OK, thanks.
