🔄 Keeping The Plugin Updated

Free HTML Pages updates through WordPress, the same way as any other plugin. Updates keep your pages, files and settings exactly as they are, so you can install them whenever they appear.

How updates arrive:

When a new version is released, WordPress shows it on the Plugins screen and on Dashboard, Updates. Click update now and WordPress does the rest. The plugin asks the ResultsAiX update server for news when you open the Plugins or Updates screens, and during WordPress's own regular update checks. Other admin screens never wait on the update server, so your dashboard stays quick. Updates are offered once the plugin has been activated with your name and email.

Check for an update right now:

Go to Dashboard, Updates and click Check again. That always asks the update server straight away.

Your plugin row:

On the Plugins screen, Free HTML Pages shows its version, by ResultsAiX.com by Kevin Fahey, and a Visit plugin site link. When an update is ready, a notice appears under the row with an update now link.

Automatic updates:

On the Plugins screen you can click Enable auto-updates next to Free HTML Pages and WordPress will install new versions for you.

What an update keeps:

Everything. Your pages, their HTML files and your settings are stored outside the plugin's own folder, in the WordPress database and in wp-content/fhp-pages/, so updating never touches them. After an update the plugin refreshes its address rules and its storage folder protection by itself.

Which version do I have?

The version is shown in the header bar at the top of every plugin screen, such as v1.9.18, in the footer of every plugin screen, on the Plugins screen and on the Diagnostics tab.

Update by hand:

If you prefer, or if an automatic update will not run:

1. Download the latest zip from your free members area at https://resultswithkevin.com/members/free-plugins/
2. Go to Plugins, Add New, Upload Plugin, choose the zip and click Install Now.
3. WordPress sees the plugin is already installed. Click Replace current with uploaded.

Your licence, pages and settings are kept, even if you deactivate and delete the old copy first.

After an update:

1. Open HTML Pages. The header shows the new version number.
2. Open one of your live pages to confirm it looks the same.
3. If you changed the URL prefix around the same time, open Settings, Permalinks in WordPress and click Save Changes once.

Updating many sites:

• Turn on auto-updates for Free HTML Pages on each site, and every site picks up new versions by itself.
• If you use the free ResultsAiX Hub, its Updates screen shows your ResultsAiX plugins together, so you can see which sites need an update at a glance.
• Your licence uses the same name and email on every site, so updates are offered everywhere once each site is activated.

Good habits:

• Keep a recent backup of your site, as you would for any plugin update.
• Update when you have a minute to check one live page afterwards.

If an update does not appear:

• Click Check again on Dashboard, Updates.
• Make sure the plugin is activated. A Free HTML Pages menu that opens the activation screen means it is not activated yet.
• Check that your server can reach outside sites. The Diagnostics report helps support check this.
• If WordPress says the download could not be completed, open a ticket at https://kevinfahey.org/contact-support/ with your Diagnostics report.