What about Cpanel Installs?

It appears WordPress installations running on a Cpanel/WHM system have core updates disabled. So if you have 20 WordPress sites running on your server does Cpanel update the core for ALL those wordpress installations even those installations that were installed from the command line shell and not from within Cpanel?

There’s a very handy plugin call Easy Update Manager that lets you fine tune the control of automated updates for both core and plugins. One feature that is nice is getting an email notification after automatic updates are applied. If the function is disabled in lieu of Cpanel doing the update, then I won’t get the notifications.

The comment in the config file says there is potential data loss if you have both enabled. Data loss from what? The potential for both updates to be running at the same time? I would assume Cpanel won’t update a WordPress site that was already updated?!? I’m still also surprised if the Cpanel updates, update all wordpress files on every host on the server, even the ones not installed from within Cpanel?

I suppose Cpanel does send email notifications about updates. If it IS indeed updating all WordPress installation core files, then I can turn off core updates on the Easy Update Manager and I guess that solves it.

From the wp-config.php file: (I think this only get inserted if you install it from Cpanel – I have sites that were a command line install that don’t have this.)

* Core updates should be disabled entirely by the cPanel & WHM? Site Software
* plugin, as Site Software will provide the updates. The following line acts
* as a safeguard, to avoid automatically updating if that plugin is disabled.
*
* Allowing updates outside of the Site Software interface in cPanel & WHM?
* could lead to DATA LOSS.
*
* Re-enable automatic background updates at your own risk.
*/
define( ‘WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE’, false );