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Automatic Updates

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Protect Your Site Automatically

Save 2-4 hours per site monthly with automated WordPress update management and testing.

  • Daily security updates and weekly full updates
  • Pre-testing on staging to prevent breaks
  • Instant rollback if issues occur
  • Detailed update reports
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How Our Update Management Works

A proven process to keep your sites secure without breaking them.

Review Changes

Changelogs reviewed as new versions release, noting special instructions and potential conflicts before implementation.

Community Experience

We monitor support forums, Twitter, and Slack for early reports of issues with newly released updates.

Non-Production Sites

Updates first go to test, dev, and staging sites, where they are thoroughly monitored for technical errors.

Weekly Updates

Core, plugins, and themes are updated weekly during lowest traffic periods (usually weekends) to minimize disruption.

Post Update Checks

Auto and manual review of the site post-update to investigate and address issues or necessary settings changes.

Optional Client Reports

A detailed weekly report can be sent to clients listing all specific updates performed on their websites.

Common questions

Frequently asked questions

Introduced with WordPress 3.7, Automatic Updates checks for available updates to WordPress, themes and plugins in the background and installs them without user intervention. Our Managed Updates are far from automated and involve a review of changes, rolling out updates on non-production sites first, manual and automated checks for errors and troubleshooting or reversing updates as needed.
We connect all WordPress websites to a central management dashboard that, when synchronized with managed websites, allows us to see the available updates to WordPress, themes and plugins. We also receive alerts, via email, when an available update addresses a security vulnerability.
Yes, we are able to update premium plugins and themes using the Envato Market plugin. When necessary, we also ensure the theme or plugin is registered (using the Envato purchase code) if this is also required for updates.
It generally isn't possible to update paid plugins and themes if the license has expired so the license will either need to renewed or the plugin or theme replaced with an alternative.
If issues occur with an update, we can immediately roll back while resolving any compatibility problems.
We perform security updates daily and complete WordPress core, plugin, and theme updates weekly. Each update undergoes careful review and testing before deployment to prevent any site disruption.

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A short call, a few questions, and you'll know exactly how we'd take updates off your plate. No pressure, just an honest conversation with the team doing the patching.

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