All help articlesSite Health Check on Flywheel
In WordPress® version 5.2, a new feature was added to the WP Admin area called Site Health, which provides information about your site and its configuration.1
Site Health runs several tests on your website and is designed to show areas of potential improvement. The results that are returned are categorized by Critical, Recommended, and Good. Because Flywheel customizes WordPress at the core level, there are some false positives included in these results.
Below are some messages you may receive from the Site Health check and details on how they relate to Flywheel.
Background updates are not working as expected
You may encounter the “Background updates are not working as expected” message. This is actually a false positive! Since Flywheel locks down the WordPress CORE files, as outlined in this help document, WordPress is seeing that the background updates are disabled. Here is a look into that critical error:
It is true, background updates are disabled because we don’t push the updates immediately unless there is a vulnerability. Here is more information about WordPress updates on Flywheel.
Outdated SQL server
You may also encounter the “Outdated SQL server” message. The Flywheel platform currently runs MySQL 5.7, but will be upgraded to MySQL 8.0 at a later date. Flywheel runs on the Google Cloud Platform and the current MySQL 5.7 version running remains well-supported and is routinely maintained and patched for any vulnerabilities by Google. We will notify you when the upgrade to MySQL 8.0 is ready.
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