How To Manage Automatic WordPress Updates Properly
Ravi Chahar
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It’s not a new concept to focus on because there are thousands of tutorials stating the necessity of keeping your WordPress website updated.
You can enable automatic updates for WordPress plugins and themes. But have you ever thought to manage automatic WordPress updates properly with one tool?
You can add different codes for the plugins and themes automatic updates but wouldn’t it be great if you can handle all the updates at once.
In this tutorial, you will learn the easiest way to manage it all.
Why do You Need to Handle Automatic Updates
With the use of one line of the WordPress codes, you can enable and disable the automatic updates for plugins and themes.
But many people feel overwhelmed due to the techie stuff. They require to having something which is easy to configure.
Though the urge of having a clean and updated WordPress blog leads its users to take some essential steps.
There are many plugins which get updates weekly or monthly. For such plugins, people like to enable automatic updates because of getting rid of some manual work.
For some people who aren’t able to manage their WordPress blog regularly, it’s really helpful.
But not all plugins need automatic updates because a major plugin update can break your website. So it’s always recommended to enable only security and bug fix updates.
Configuring Easy Update Manager.
Just like any other WordPress plugin, you have to install and activate Easy Update Manager. After installation, you have to visit its settings’ page to configure it.
Step 1:- Go to Dashboard>>Updates Options and you will see many automatic update options. These are some options you can use.
This page provides you the quick access to enable and disable the automatic updates for the plugins and themes. It shows all the options you will use in the different tabs.
Step 2:- There are many tabs for different settings. Now, you have to do some general WordPress core and plugin settings. Open the General tab and many options will be showing.
This page let you manage the minor and major updates for WordPress core, plugins, and themes. It’s always recommended to enable only minor updates.
To enable automatic updates in WordPress only for big release, you can use the simple code editing method.
Do the settings and save it.