My auto updates have been disabled, but not by me

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    gabeishere · Member ·

    Hello, I have an inquiry. When I go to my website health it says “critical issue, background updates are not working as expected” and “the WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE has been disabled.”

    It says I have to edit my wp config file in order to fix this. Great! There’s only one problem, my website is completely on the web; that is to say, if I have a wp config file, it’s extremely difficult to find. Most of the guides on this issue were created in 2013 when WP was still a bunch of files on your computer.

    Does anyone know why my auto updates have been disabled without my permission? How can I fix it in 2019?

    Thanks in advance :)

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    Your site is not hosted on WordPress.com, but using the open source WordPress.org software at another hosting provider. We cannot help with this in the WordPress.com forums.

    Please post in the self-hosted WordPress forums instead for help:

    https://wordpress.org/support/forums

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