A Deep Dive Into WordPress Automatic Updates

When it comes to security, we know how important is to regularly update WordPress installations (core, themes and plugins), and how long the upgrade process could take to us, especially when we have installed a good number of plugins. It’s commonly recommended to follow these steps: Back-up files and database tables
Disable plugins
Update
Enable plugins one by one
Check the web site
It could be a tedious task for a single web site, and could be an annoying and complex job when we’ve to update five, ten or more websites.
With the specific purpose to improve the installation security and make the site administration easier, WordPress 3.7 introduced automatic updates. By default this cool feature is enabled for minor releases (i.e. maintenance and security releases) and translation files, but it’s possible to customize any kind of updates. So, in this post we’ll look at how to automate the upgrade process anytime a new version of WordPress core, theme or plugin is released. Let’s dive deep into WordPress automatic updates!
WordPress Automatic Updates
There are four typologies of updates and WordPress automatic updates:
Core updates
Plugin updates
Theme updates
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/13699/a-deep-dive-into-wordpress-automatic-updates

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