Auto Update Mechanism

Auto Update Mechanism, Exactly how does this work & interactions with WP Auto Update (1 Replies, Read 90 times)

wpdev	# September 23, 2024, 7:10 pm
Group: Member Post Group: Newbie Posts: 1 Status:	I have a two part question with a recent scenario. Question 1) What takes precedence on a site that has both Softaculous & WP Auto Updates set to 'on'? Does Softaculous take over the onboard WP Auto Updates, do they compete with one another, is it redundant to set both to 'yes'? Question 2) In a case where both are set to 'yes' which is responsible for what I recently observed? Scenario: A recent auto update of one plugin caused a fatal error on my site, so I FTP’d in and appended the plugin folder name with -p to deactivate the plugin so I could log into the back end. I forgot to toggle off auto update in both Softaculous and WP.. I put in a ticket with the plugin dev and overnight a second (new) folder of the plugin, only a newer version that was released over that same night, coincidentally, was created on the server. I looked at the back end and there were two instances of the plugin on the plugins page. Both deactivated, both set to auto update, one was the next to last version (my appended one) and one was the latest version released over night. My question is: Is this normative behavior that a deactivated, renamed plugin set to auto update would install a whole other plugin folder with the latest version in it? In the decade of using WP, I have never observed this duplication of folders before.
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