So I upgraded today to WordPress 2.8 (which I still haven’t really played around with — obviously, since I just upgraded today), and I’m starting to wonder when I can look forward to not having to click that upgrade button any more.
The addition of one-click upgrades to both the WordPress core installation as well as installed plugins was a brilliant feature addition, but I’m hoping things will go one step further and just update my stuff automatically. While I could see the questions raised already (what if something broke? what if you didn’t want to upgrade? what if your database imploded?), why not just make it a feature that you could turn on?
For me anyway, having to log into all of my sites and upgrade WordPress and all its plugins is something that I do irregularly because it’s time-consuming. Would there not be some way to just have WordPress go through the upgrade and just let me know if there’s a problem? I guess we’re still a long ways away from software that can diagnose its own illnesses. Oh well, I can hope, can’t I?
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June 15th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
You raise an interesting point. I know a lot of people who don’t like to upgrade right away because they want to allow time for developers to update plugins so they work with the new WordPress version. However, it would be quite burdensome to click the update button if someone owned a large number of blogs.
In the meantime, you might consider using the iMacros plugin for Firefox to click the button in multiple blogs. You create a macro for one blog by allowing iMacros to “record” you clicking the update button. Then you copy that macro and insert the domain name of each of your blogs. I’ve done this with over 1,000 blogs and it saved a ton of time.
June 16th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
A macro is an interesting approach that I hadn’t thought of. I would still prefer to have something browser-independent however (since I’m not always updating things from the same location). I’ll have to take a look around and see if someone has written a plugin to do what I need…