Can't deploy following WP update about wp-deploy

[hamishtaplin]

Just logged in to Wordpress and it's advising me to update so it seems the update of my production server didn't happen either?

[lukewhitehouse]

Hi @hamishtaplin to update wordpress within wp-deploy you need to do this in command-line.

With Capistrano being mainly a deployment tool, all of its commands require you to target an environment, for example staging or production. The wp:core:update command you tried will always update locally, even if you specify a server.

So, try the following:
$ bundle exec cap staging wp:core:update

I can understand why you may have got a little confused by this, its not very intuitive and it could be worth rewording the task.

[hamishtaplin]

Can I reopen this? I'm unable to deploy our website at the moment due to this problem...

[lukewhitehouse]

Hey @hamishtaplin, when you update wordpress you're essentially updating a folder, this is then ready to be committed to your repository and then deployed.

I've reopened this for now but this should solve your issue.

[hamishtaplin]

Sorry I totally missed your first point about the stage being irrelevant, I understand now.

When I run bundle exec cap staging wp:core:update the submodule updates but running git status indicates that there's nothing to commit and therefore deploy.

[lukewhitehouse]

Not too sure what the problem is there. Can you try going into /wordpress and running git status

[hamishtaplin]

HEAD detached at 4.0

[hamishtaplin]

Ok I fixed this by running:

git reset --hard
git checkout master
git pull origin master

In the /wordpress dir.

All works now :)

[coire1]

Hello, I had a similar problem.
I tried to update WP running bundle exec cap staging wp:core:update.
My local WP has been updated (not the remote one).
I've commited changes, pushed and then I run bundle exec cap staging deploy which is failed with this error:
The deploy has failed with an error: #<SSHKit::Command::Failed: git stdout: Nothing written git stderr: Nothing written

I fixed the error sshing the staging server running:
cd repo/wordpress
git fetch --tags
git checkout 4.0

After that the remote WP has been updated and deploy task run successfully.

Did I do something wrong or I should expect this behaviour?

[ryanjkoehler]

@coire1's solution worked for me. Running wp:core:update took my local WP submodule from 3.9.2 to 3.7.5.