Ever since we moved our WordPress blog to Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud hosting platform (see post), plugins have failed to update rendering them broken – this can quickly become a pain if it’s critical such as your SPAM comment plug-in!
The issue is mentioned ad nauseum here but I’m able to delete the plugin to get around the problem that some others seem unable to do, hence sharing our solution:
Steps to workaround the problem
1. Follow the post here on getting your FTP username and password if you haven’t already got it, then setup your connection in FileZilla.
2. Browse to the ftp path – /site/wwwroot/wp-content/plugins, make a note of what appears there and compare it to your list of plugins installed on WordPress (wp-admin/plugins.php)
3. In Filezilla, delete the folders that refer to the failed updates.
4. In WordPress (wp-admin/plugins.php) re-add the plugins, then activate and configure them.
Hope this helps you. You’ll need to do this each time a plugin needs updating – dull!
However, from the thread mentioned above, it looks like a fix will be deployed pretty soon…