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WordPress Plugin Update error

I’ve been religiously using the recently introduced Plugin Update within WordPress to keep all my installed WordPress plugins up to date, a recent change in my server environment broke this and every time I attempted to update a plugin a stream of PHP would come up!

Below I provide my solution, a single line PHP snippet to be added to the wp-config.php file within WordPress’s root directory.

define('WP_TEMP_DIR','/tmp');

This PHP snippet may need to be adapted to the server configuration of your web host. Try it, it worked for me!