Child site plugins not updating




Hi @hotchilidigital

  1. Is this occurring only for some plugins? If so, are they perhaps premium plugins that require a license?

  2. And can you navigate to the WP Admin of some of the affected child sites and verify that the plugins can be updated at all?

  3. Can you please post the community system report from your MainWP Dashboard for review? The report is located in your Dashboard under Info → Server, on the top right of the page.

Be sure to use the button like the one below; this button hides all your private information:

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Pressing the button auto-copies the report to your clipboard then just paste it in a reply here.

  1. It’s happening for both premium and non-premium plugins. Here’s a screenshot from one site:
  2. After logging in to WP Admin, it looks like plugins have been updated but the sites haven’t synced with MainWP Dashboard. My Auto daily sync settings are:

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### WordPress Check                Required                                               Detected                                     Status   ###

FileSystem Method                  = direct                                               direct                                       Pass        
MultiSite Disabled                 =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
WordPress Memory Limit             >=64M                                                  128M                                         Pass        
WordPress Version                  >=3.6                                                  6.3                                          Pass        

### PHP                            Required                                               Detected                                     Status   ###

cURL Extension Enabled             =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
cURL Timeout                       >=300 seconds                                          40                                           Warning     
cURL Version                       >=7.29.0                                               7.85.0                                       Pass        
OpenSSL Version                    >=OpenSSL/1.1.0                                        OpenSSL/3.0.9                                Pass        
PCRE Backtracking Limit            >=10000                                                1000000                                      Pass        
PHP Allow URL fopen                N/A                                                    YES                                                      
PHP Disabled Functions             N/A                                                    No functions disabled.                                   
PHP Exif Support                   N/A                                                    YES ( V8.0.)                                             
PHP IPTC Support                   N/A                                                    YES                                                      
PHP Loaded Extensions              N/A                                                    Core, PDO, Phar, Reflection, SPL, SimpleXML, Zend OPcache, bcmath, bz2, calendar, cgi-fcgi, ctype, curl, date, dba, dom, enchant, exif, fileinfo, filter, ftp, gd, gettext, gmp, hash, iconv, imap, intl, json, libxml, mbstring, memcached, mysqli, mysqlnd, openssl, pcntl, pcre, pdo_mysql, pdo_pgsql, pdo_sqlite, pgsql, posix, pspell, readline, session, shmop, soap, sockets, sodium, sqlite3, standard, sysvmsg, sysvsem, tidy, tokenizer, xml, xmlreader, xmlwriter, xsl, zip, zlib            
PHP Max Execution Time             >=30 seconds                                           120                                          Pass        
PHP Max Input Time                 >=30 seconds                                           120                                          Pass        
PHP Memory Limit                   >=128M                                                 768M                                         Pass        
PHP Post Max Size                  >=2M                                                   256M                                         Pass        
PHP Safe Mode Disabled             =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
PHP Upload Max Filesize            >=2M                                                   256M                                         Pass        
PHP Version                        >=7.4                                                  8.0.30                                       Pass        
PHP XML Support                    N/A                                                    YES                                                      
SSL Extension Enabled              =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
SSL Warnings                       = empty                                                                                             Pass        

### MySQL                          Required                                               Detected                                     Status   ###

MySQL Client Encoding              N/A                                                    utf8mb4                                                  
MySQL Mode                         N/A                                                    NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION                                   
MySQL Version                      >=5.0                                                  5.7.39-42-log                                Pass        

### Server Configuration           Detected Value                                      ###

Accept Content                     text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.7
Accept-Charset Content             N/A                                                    
Architecture                       64		 bit                                               
Gateway Interface                  CGI/1.1                                                
HTTPS                              ON                                                     
Memory Usage                       92.08 MB                                               
Operating System                   Linux                                                  
Request Time                       1692322223                                             
Server Protocol                    HTTP/1.0                                               
Server self connect                Response Test O.K.                                     
Server Software                    Apache                                                 
User Agent                         Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/115.0.1901.203

### MainWP Dashboard Settings      Detected Value                                      ###

Abandoned plugins/themes tolerance 365                                                    
Basic uptime monitoring enabled    Yes                                                    
MainWP Dashboard Version           Latest: 4.5.0.1 | Detected: 4.4.3.4 Warning            
MainWP legacy backups enabled      No                                                     
Maximum number of pages to return                                                         
Maximum number of posts to return                                                         
Maximum simultaneous install and update requests3                                                      
Maximum simultaneous requests      3                                                      
Maximum simultaneous requests per ip1                                                      
Maximum simultaneous sync requests 6                                                      
Minimum delay between requests     400                                                    
Minimum delay between requests to the same ip1500                                                   
Number of child sites              14                                                     
Optimize for shared hosting or big networksYes                                                    
Plugin advanced automatic updates enabledYes                                                    
Primary Backup System              MainWP UpdraftPlus Extension                           
REST API enabled                   No                                                     
Site health monitoring enabled     No                                                     
Theme advanced automatic updates enabledYes                                                    
Use WP Cron                        Yes                                                    
WP Core advanced automatic updates enabledYes                                                    

### Extensions                     Version                                                License                                      Status   ###

Advanced Uptime Monitor Extension  5.2.3                                                  Actived                                      Pass        
MainWP Database Updater Extension  4.0.3                                                  Actived                                      Pass        
MainWP Domain Monitor Extension    4.0.5                                                  Actived                                      Pass        
MainWP Lighthouse Extension        4.0.4                                                  Actived                                      Pass        
MainWP Maintenance Extension       4.1.2                                                  Actived                                      Pass        
MainWP Page Speed Extension        4.0.3                                                  Actived                                      Pass        
MainWP Pro Reports Extension       4.1.1                                                  Actived                                      Pass        
MainWP Rocket Extension            4.0.5                                                  Actived                                      Pass        
MainWP SSL Monitor Extension       4.0.4                                                  Actived                                      Pass        
MainWP UpdraftPlus Extension       4.0.8                                                  Actived                                      Pass        
MainWP White Label Extension       4.1.3                                                  Actived                                      Pass        
MainWP Wordfence Extension         4.0.9                                                  Actived                                      Pass        
MainWP WordPress SEO Extension     4.0.3                                                  Actived                                      Pass        

### Plugin                         Version                                                Status                                    ###

Insights from Google PageSpeed     4.0.8                                                  Active                                       
MainWP Child                       4.4.1.3                                                Active                                       
MainWP Child Reports               2.1.1                                                  Active                                       
MainWP Dashboard                   4.4.3.4                                                Active                                       
MainWP Page Speed Extension        4.0.3                                                  Active                                       
Really Simple SSL                  7.0.8                                                  Active                                       
UpdraftPlus - Backup/Restore       1.23.9                                                 Active                                       
Wordfence Security                 7.10.3                                                 Active                                       
Yoast SEO                          20.13                                                  Active                                       

Thanks for the additional details.

Scheduled actions such as synchronization and plugin/themes updates depend on the core feature of WordPress, WP-Cron, to work.

However, if there is no network activity on the website, such as you logging into the Dashboard site, WP-Cron will not trigger, and the cron jobs will not run.

If you want to make sure that WP-Cron jobs are regularly triggered on your MainWP Dashboard, you can add your Dashboard site as a monitor to an uptime service such as Uptime Robot.

The Uptime Robot will ping your dashboard site regularly and make sure that all scheduled events are occurring.

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