Comments on: How To Make WordPress Check For Updates Immediately

By: tony

tony — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 06:57:46 +0000

Except that for one of my blogs, the “updates” and “check again” buttons do NOT detect that this installation (WordPress 3.1.2) is not the latest version (which is presently 3.2.1).

I know I can manually update, but it’s tedious and I’ve already done it once.

I’d like to know why wordpress 3.1.2 thinks it’s the latest version when it’s clearly not. I have two other blogs on the same server which picked up version 3.2.1 perfectly.

By: MK Safi

MK Safi — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:06:06 +0000

This seems to be built into the latest version of WP, 3.1. Go to Dashboard menu -> Updates, you’ll find a button “Check Again”

By: White Shadow

White Shadow — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:41:46 +0000

You are correct in regards to the Plugin/Theme pages, seems I missed that when reading the source code in question. However, the core update page checks every time you load it, not every hour (I still included that check in the plugin for completeness).

By: DD32

DD32 — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:59:26 +0000

Just a quick note here, The Plugin/Theme/Core updates actually check every hour if you’re visiting their page, else every 12 hours.

(their page = the plugins page, the themes page, or the core update page)