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Update WordPress core, plugins and themes in bulk

Xagio collects pending WordPress core, plugin and theme updates from every connected site. You can run them all at once, or pick the ones you want. The same screen lets you clean up spam comments and post revisions, and moderate comments and reviews across sites.

Before you start

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Find the update center

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Open WordPress > Dashboard in the sidebar. The tiles at the top show your Connected websites, Updates available, pending Reviews and comments, and Optimizations (spam and post revisions to clean). Below them, the Update center shows pending updates in three groups: WordPress Core, Plugins and Themes.

Run every update

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  1. Click Update All.
  2. Confirm “This will update Wordress version, all plugins and themes.”

The updates are queued and run on each site.

Run selected updates

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  1. Open WordPress Core, Plugins or Themes.
  2. Tick the updates you want. If you tick nothing, every update in that group runs.
  3. Click the update button for that group and confirm.

Clean up spam and revisions

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The Optimization block shows how many spam comments and post revisions your sites have. You can delete them for one site or for all sites. Deleting cannot be undone.

Moderate comments and reviews

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The Comments and Reviews blocks list pending items from all sites. Use Approve All, or select items and approve or delete them.

Check what ran

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Each block has an operations log (Update Operations Log, Comment Operations Log, Spam & Revision Logs) with the type, domain or parent, name, status and date of each action. Click Clear Log to empty a log.

You can also follow queued plugin, theme and core updates from WordPress > Sites > Actions > View update progress.

Get notified

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Turn on Core, Plugin & Theme Updates in Email notifications to get an email when updates run, including ones that failed.

Troubleshooting

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  • “You need to select some updates in order to perform updates.” There were no updates to run in your selection. Click refresh to load the latest list, then try again.
  • “You need to select some comments in order to approve them.” Tick at least one comment first. The same applies to reviews and revisions.
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