Softaculous auto update option?

  • I noticed that Softaculous offers an auto update option for WordPress and its plugins. Has anyone used this? How well does it work? I’m finding that keeping up with regular updates for the sites I manage is becoming a real headache.

    I see there are also plugins developed for this purpose — would they be any better/worse than Softaculous for this purpose?

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by Jan Dembowski.
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  • WP 5.5 will reportedly offer the option to auto-update plugins and themes. In the meantime you could try the Softaculous method. Or you could add a couple of lines to your theme’s functions.php file …
    // Automate updates for themes and plugins
    add_filter( ‘auto_update_theme’, ‘__return_true’ );
    add_filter( ‘auto_update_plugin’, ‘__return_true’ );

    You could also try a plugin but I prefer to avoid installing yet-another-plugin when practical. I use both the Softaculous setting and the functions.php method, the later seems to kick in first so I can’t verify that Softaculous works reliably for this, but you could certainly try it and see.

    Thread Starter jgold723

    (@jgold723)

    Thanks, I appreciate the advice.

    Updating via softaculous used to work fine in my case. But for some reason on all my 3 wordpress sites installed via softaculous the auto updating of the plugins has stopped working. on April 22nd I got the last email about plugins being updated automatically, it hasn’t worked since and I cant figure out why it stopped working.

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