default setting: only minor updates (4.7.1 → 4.7.2) are applied automatically major updates (4.7 → 4.8) must bei applied manually #edit your wp-config.php and insert the following: #to enable major-release updates define(‘WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE’, true)
If you want to update wordpress themes or plugins and you are automatically redirected to the ftp-download-page, you can manually force wordpress to go in maintenance-mode and to download and update directly. For this you have to put the following … Continued
If you try to update a plugin or theme in WordPress and you get the error message: “Download failed. There are no HTTP transports available which can complete the requested request” you have to enable/install the PHP-plugins curl and openssl. … Continued