WordPress Toolkit/Updating WordPress

Updating WordPress Instances

You can do this either automatically or manually

Manual updates you control when updates are installed. For example, you can wait and see if installing a particular update can create issues for other WordPress users. However, it is recommended to update regularly to avoid falling behind.
Automatic updates will give you peace of mind by keeping your WordPress instance up-to-date. However, updates can sometimes break your instance, and with automatic updates, you may not learn about it right away.

Go to WordPress
Click “View” next to “Updates”, wait for WordPress Toolkit to load the list of available updates, and then select the updates you want to install.
Note: If an update of a WordPress core is available, you will see the “Restore Point” checkbox. Keep this checkbox selected to create a restore point you can use to roll back the update if something goes wrong.
Select your updates and Click Update.

Go to WordPress and choose the WordPress instance that you want to update automatically.
Click “View” next to “Updates”, and then click “Settings”.
Choose the desired automatic update settings. You can configure automatic updates separately for WordPress core, plugins, and themes (for example, you can choose to enable automatic updates for plugins and themes, but not for WordPress core). Follow these recommendations:
- Selecting “No” next to “Update WordPress automatically” turns off automatic updates of WordPress core. This is insecure.
- If your website is publicly available (production) and you are concerned that applying updates automatically may break it, select “Yes, but only minor (security) updates”.
- If your website is a non-public (staging) version of a WordPress website, select “Yes, all (minor and major) updates”. This will keep your staging website up-to-date and ensure that, should an update break something, it happens to the staging website and not to the production one.
Click OK.