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

Leif Kajrup

This, together with "Safe Update Feature", is a show-stopper for us. If this would be in place I would merge all sites from ManageWP in a hearbeat.

Rune Rasmussen

It's sad that it's not the most voted request who is prioritised, this one t.ex. is a show stopper for us, we simply can't use your service without it - and together with the 'Safe Update Feature' request you would have a winner! ;)

Roberto Coria

It would be a nice feature to plan the update itseit, maybe like a cron entry. time entry or else. Manage wp offer only fixed timing. i have, for example contract with the client to update only 2 times in a year.

Triner Media

This is what I imagine:
You can create as many scheduled update tasks as you need. Each task consists of 
1) a status (active/paused)
2) a time pattern (like you set up a cron),
3) the components that are to be updated (core, theme, plugins, database, whereby you can also make exclusions, like "all plugins but not plugin XY")
4) and the sites that are to be updated (here, too, you can exclude individual pages or labels, like Amaury Cleuziou mentioned).
Under the "Updates" tab of a specific site you can see a list of all planned tasks that are to be applied to this site. From here you can also remove/unapply or just pause a task for this site.

Michael

We also use the scheduled updates in ManageWP. It would be great to see this in WP Umbrella as well. The only use case not covered in ManageWP: I like the scheduled updates feature. But I would like to be able to disable the auto-updates for a certain time (e.g. I know that I am on holiday and cannot react to possible bugs). But I do not want to have to disable and re-enable auto-updates for every single project.

Jirsbek

Same here, looking forward to this feature as it's only feature I'm missing to migrate all project to WP Umbrella.

Frits Saro

this is the only feature left which will make me decide to transfer all my clients from managewp to here. Hope this will be released soon

MAPODEC

Looking forward to this update. It would be a breakthrough :) It would be nice if the frequency could be chosen "last Monday of each month" for example.

Rune Rasmussen

I also suggest adding a configurable minimum age for plugins, to avoid updating versions released t.ex. same day, in case they have bugs. We sadly see this way to often, new versions release and breaking things, before a bug fix is released some days later.

Brandon

Rune Rasmussen: Also, the “days old” rule should look at the latest release, and not evaluate each update individually. If the rule is “No updates less than 7 days old”, you could end up getting the bad update but not the patch, because the patch was less than 7 days old. Preventing all available updates for a plugin based on the age of the latest release would avoid that situation.

Rune Rasmussen

Brandon: Seems like we say the same thing in the end, just in different ways, because the WP update functionality always looks at and displays the latest version, and not the previous ones.

Brandon

Rune Rasmussen: Ah perfect. So that should already be taken care of.

Simon Wimell

This will need to be incorporated with Safe updates when available.

Amaury Cleuziou

Would be great to exclude some sites from being updated (based on label for example)

Kyle Schmitt

Amaury Cleuziou: Excluding certain sites from being auto updated would be phenomenal. I manage several sites that auto updates are perfect for, but a couple sites I'd like to test updates for on a test site before pushing them live. Like membership sites or larger ecommerce sites for example.

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