Troubleshooting: Plugin won't update via TGMPA - dotherightthing/wpdtrt-plugin-boilerplate GitHub Wiki

Status

  • Added @ 1.4.25

Trigger

  1. Navigate to the WordPress Plugins page.
  2. Begin installing or updating wpdtrt- plugins
  3. You are forwarded to http://dontbelievethehype2.dan/wp-admin/plugins.php?page=tgmpa-install-plugins&plugin_status=install

Error message

The following message is shown in WP Admin:

Cannot load tgmpa-install-plugins

Explanation

TODO

Common causes

Probably caused by removing the autoloader, but still under investigation - #77.

Solution

Bypass TGMPA plugin updating.

This DBTH website workaround allowed content editing to resume:

  1. Back up local database
  2. Stop MAMP
  3. Delete plugins that won’t update through TGMPA
  4. Download release zips from Github repos, including TGMPA dependencies-of-dependencies
  5. Unzip to plugins directory
  6. Start MAMP
  7. Activate plugins