{"id":1498,"date":"2021-05-10T13:44:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T10:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2025-11-27T11:44:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:44:24","slug":"how-to-fix-wordpress-database-update-required-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/how-to-fix-wordpress-database-update-required-loop\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix WordPress Database Update Required Loop"},"content":{"rendered":"

The <\/span>\u201cDatabase Update Required\u201d<\/span><\/i> error usually comes up after you <\/span>upgrade your website<\/b> manually.<\/span><\/p>\n

You would see a message prompt that tells you to<\/span> update your WordPress database<\/b>, but when you click on <\/span>\u201cUpdate WordPress Database,<\/span><\/i>\u201d it returns another message that says, <\/span>\u201cNo update required, your WordPress database is already up to date.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Sometimes, your browser might also return a blank white screen known as the<\/span> WordPress White Screen of Death.<\/b><\/p>\n

When this error occurs, you might feel a bit panicky, wondering what could have possibly gone wrong. If you are in this situation right now, you do not have to worry.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this article, we will walk you through the<\/span> simple process of fixing this error <\/b>using two options, both of which are accessible through<\/span> SPanel’s<\/b><\/a> User Interface.<\/span><\/p>\n

Option 1: Populate the site URL in the wp-options table to the home page of the website.<\/b><\/h2>\n

To do this follow these steps –<\/b><\/p>\n

Open<\/span> phpMyAdmin from SPanel’s User Interface<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Fix<\/p>\n

Select your <\/span>website database <\/b>from the panel on the left.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Fix<\/p>\n

Click on the <\/span>wp-options<\/b> and check your<\/span> website\u2019s url option.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

\"Fix\"FixGo to <\/span>the <\/span>wp_options<\/b> table to find <\/span>db_version<\/b>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Fix<\/p>\n

Note the <\/span>option_value<\/b> against <\/span>db_version<\/b><\/p>\n

Go back to the file manager option in your sPanel account<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Fix<\/p>\n

Click on <\/span>public_html<\/b> > <\/span>wp-includes<\/b> > <\/span>version.php.<\/b> Click the file <\/span>version.php<\/b> to edit it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Fix<\/p>\n

Search for the following <\/span>\u201c$wp_db_version\u201d<\/span><\/i> and replace the number to match it with the <\/span>option_value<\/b> that you noted earlier.<\/span><\/p>\n

Option 2- Edit the object-cache.php file<\/b><\/h2>\n

The second way to resolve this error is by going to the <\/span>object-cache.php<\/b> file. You can use SPanel’s File Manager to navigate to the wp-content<\/strong> <\/span>folder inside your site’s document root directory. When you get to it, rename it (to something like object-cache1.php) to regain access to the WordPress dashboard.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/b><\/h2>\n

We have just shown you the two possible ways of fixing the <\/span>\u201cDatabase Update Required<\/span><\/i>\u201d Loop. If none of these methods worked for you, please<\/span> feel free to drop feedback<\/b>, and our technical team will get in touch with you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If you need help with <\/span>migrating your WordPress website<\/b><\/a> automatically to avoid this error from occurring, kindly leave feedback as well, and we will be in touch with you.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The \u201cDatabase Update Required\u201d error usually comes up after you upgrade your website manually. You would see a message prompt that tells you to update your WordPress database, but when you click on \u201cUpdate WordPress Database,\u201d it returns another message that says, \u201cNo update required, your WordPress database is already up to date.\u201d Sometimes, your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Fix WordPress Database Update Required Loop | ScalaHosting KB","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-hosting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5841,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions\/5841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}