Auto / Scheduled Updates | Voters

Auto / Scheduled Updates

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Aurelio Volle

Description:

Our upcoming feature will empower you to automate and schedule updates for WordPress core, themes, and plugins directly from WP Umbrella. This functionality simplifies update management, ensuring your website remains secure and up-to-date.

Key Benefits:

Efficient Automation:
Automate the update process to save time and ensure your website is always running the latest versions.
Scheduled Updates:
Schedule updates for convenient times, reducing disruptions and ensuring smooth operations.

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November 9, 2023

Julian Young

When should we expect this to be released? Within the 1st half of 2025?

Russ Michaels

please make sure multiple schedules can be created, so some sites can use the safe update, some us ethe advanced safe update etc.

Also to send email on failure rather than rely on us logging in and look through notifications.

Aurelio Volle

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We've just started the development of this feature.

Nazim Ansari

Aurelio Volle That's cool. Thanks 🙏🏻

Magneto

Aurelio Volle Excellent news! Thank you!

John Bendever, Jr.

Aurelio, will we be able to set a variation detection so items are automatically rolled back if it's over the set amount of percentage difference?

Also, how will we be able to throttle activity so a server with multiple sites is not bogged down? Is there a plan for that?

Aurelio Volle

John Bendever, Jr. this should be mitigated by the way our workers are working. But thanks for the heads up!

Dusin Dauncey

Yes, this is very important. Auto-updates would be great, and the ability to time them is equally as important too. For example, I have backups daily to sometimes up to 4 times daily from my hosting platform which I manage, and they are scheduled at certain times. It'd be great if I had the ability to schedule the updates to occur after my platform backups are completed. So let's say for example the backup is at 6:00 AM Pacific Time, I'd like to schedule the updates at 6:30 AM or even at 6:15 AM so that it is close to when the platform backup is finished.

Tommaso Baldovino

This is a deal breaker for me: it's the only reason I'm not migrating my sites from ManageWP.

Aurelio Volle

Tommaso Baldovino how would you like to schedule your update if you had a magic stick?

Tommaso Baldovino

Aurelio Volle I’d like to be able to set the update frequency (daily, weekly, monthly, also choosing the time of the day), and if the update should be done immediately without any check or after a site backup with a status check after the “safe update”. Obviously I’d like to choose which plugins and themes auto-update, as for the core WP files.

Thank you!

Rob Watson

Tommaso Baldovino Everything Tommaso said is also what I would like, ideally. It needs to be more configurable and controllable than the default autoupdate in WordPress so we can account for exceptions and be "in the office" at the hours of the day the updates occur, or else sites are risked and the value of WP Umbrella is lost.

David Mitchell

I was looking to start setting this up for my sites today — for some reason I thought it was already implemented! Currently we have most plugins set to auto-update, except ones particularly prone to breaking things, but this results in "Temporarily unavailable for scheduled maintenance" messages at random times. I want to be able to schedule updates for early in the morning, with "Safe Update" enabled for those especially sensitive plugins.

Nazim Ansari

Can't wait for it.

Romain Galvez

This will be an absolute banger !

But you need to enable safe-update for auto-update too to prevent breaking sites.

Richard

We need this feature when will this happen?

Aurelio Volle

Richard we have started to work on this! Released date during Q1 next year! How would you like to schedule your updates?

Richard

Aurelio Volle it would be great if wp umbrella check every night if there are updates, if yes then update en check the site if there are something broken. if there something broken there will be a restore of a backup. are there no errors the update is succes. or you can plan it like every friday on a time run a back up and then update every site something like that.

Magneto

The only missing thing (and safe updates) that makes us hesitate to migrate all our sites from ManageWP.

Gabriel

Magneto Safe Updates is one of the most asked features and essential. This is one of the arguments to stay with ManageWP, because I must have the possibility to immediately restore from a fresh backup after an update fails!

Aurelio Volle

Magneto Gabriel now that safe update is live, we are starting to work on update automation. How would you like to be able to schedule your updates?

Magneto

Hi Aurelio Volle, thank you for asking. For me the following options would work: Immediately when available/Once a day at specific time/once a week at specific day&time/once a month at specific day&time. There also could be an override to do an update immediately if that update patches a security issue and one of the date/time options is set. It should be possible to select a subset of plugins per site, so that it possible to exclude plugins/themes from updating automatically
For me update frequency can be set globally per site, not necessarily per plugin/theme
Btw: it would be great to also het safe updates on themes too though.

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