So you are an administrator on your WordPress website and are unable to update or install any new plugins or themes on your website? You can identify the problem if you see the message like
WordPress 6.6.1 is available! Please notify the site administrator.
Or you have not seen any plugin or theme updates for a long time. Or maybe when you try to install a new plugin, that also gives the error.
There is no problem with anything else except that you yourself have denied WordPress to update or change files on your server.
How to fix WordPress 6.x.x is available! Please notify the site administrator
If you are wondering you yourself is an administrator whom you should notify, please edit your wp-config.php file and try to find out define( ‘DISALLOW_FILE_MODS’, true );
If this DISALLOW_FILE_MODS is TRUE then make it false, and your problem should be resolved. You can either remove it completely or make it false. In following example we have made it commented by adding // in start of these both lines.
After you have allowed FILE_EDIT and FILE_MODS now you can edit theme files, or plugin files if you were not seeing option Plugin Editor, Theme Editor that will start appearing now as well.
You can also manually update WordPress by following our guide on how to manually update or reinstall WordPress. So manually updating WordPress, plugins, and themes is needed if you intentionally disable WordPress updates, installations, or file changes to anything by following our guide.
We can also help you get out of the problem if you are unsure how to fix it. Please contact your web expert Thank you!
