Update several WordPress instances at once

  • Phil Marx

    (@ilikewordpress)


    13 years, 2 months ago

    Hi,

    I’m wondering if there is a possibility to update several WordPress installations at once.
    In the last few years, I installed circa seven WordPress blogs and it’s very hard to get them updated with each new release.

    I’ve read a lot about rsync or subversion but I don’t have access to SSH on my (shared) hosts, so this can be ruled out. To make the whole thing a bit harder, the installations are on different hosts, partially even at different hosters. There has to be a method with PHP only.
    There is a service called managewp.com but this is a paid service and I’m not willing to pay for this.

    So, if there is a possibility to get out of this trouble, I’m very interested in it. Thanks a lot for your advice!

    ilikewordpress

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  • 7 WordPress are hard to update?
    7 clicks ??

    Thread Starter Phil Marx

    (@ilikewordpress)

    – 7 times calling the appropriate wp-admin-URLs
    – 7 times logging in (different credentails, of course)
    – 7 times entering FTP-Data for update (different credentials, all of them cryptic, of course)

    Yep, there are administrators with much more than seven installations but thats not the point: _I_ am not very delighted doing all these steps… ??

    Ok i understand this is not the point, but if you save your wp-admin credentials in you browser cookies, you don’t need to access via ftp to update. I have 20 clients WordPress installations and I have not problems doing that.

    BTW I think you have to write a PHP program which logs and update, I cannot think other ways to do it.

    Thread Starter Phil Marx

    (@ilikewordpress)

    OK, let me tell it in other words:
    I’m just too lazy calling twenty or just seven URLs manually. I’m not storing my credentials for WordPress in my cookies and even if I would, I still have to enter my FTP-credentials after callling the update-routine in WordPress backend.
    I want to call a procedure and then this procedure updates my installations. There hasn’t to be any fancy stuff like AJAX or eyecandy. A simple “OK” as a result of success would be enough ??

    I’m quite familiar with PHP, so this would be no problem. But the lack of knowledge of the method, how to do the update the same way WordPress does, is a problem…

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