Wordpress Another update is currently in progress

*note*Before you start thismakea backup of your website, if it goes wrong then it can be restored within seconds, you can do this in the following way:makebackup.

Sometimes it can happen that you get an error message when updating WordPress, the message "Another update is currently in progress."
You should then further save and extract the latest version of WordPress locally, for this example we will use WinRar.



Wordpress Another update is currently in progress

Next you will see a folder called WordPress.

Wordpress Another update is currently in progress

Connect to your website via FTP, how to do that can be found in the following article: How do I make an FTP connection?
Then overwrite the files.

Wordpress Another update is currently in progress

You will now see that you are using the latest version of WordPress, you can also see this in your admin page.

Wordpress Another update is currently in progress

If you want to keep everything up to date automatically you can also use Managed WordPress hosting.
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