MainWP Auto Updates feature is designed to provide you full control over automatic updates of Plugins on your Child sites. The process of setting auto-updates requires two steps:
- Enabling the Auto Updates Feature
- Marking plugins as “Trusted.”
Enable Auto Updates
- Login in to your MainWP Dashboard
- Go to the MainWP > SettingsĀ page
- Locate the Updates Settings section of the page
- Set the Plugin automatic updates option to Install Updates
- Click the Save Settings button at the bottom of the page
Mark a plugin as “Trusted.”
- Login in to your MainWP Dashboard
- Go to the MainWP > Plugins > Auto Updates page
- Set theĀ Status, Trust Status, and theĀ Keyword search filters to find the wanted Plugin(s)
- Click the Show Plugins button
- Once the list of Plugins appear
Locate the Plugin(s) that you want to mark as trusted
- Select it by checking the checkbox in front of the Plugin(s) name
- Select the Trust action in the Bulk Actions menu
- Click the Apply button
Important Notes
Setting a Plugin as Trusted means thatĀ you trust this Plugin and are choosing to allow MainWP to manage it for you.
From the moment your MainWP Dashboard detects the available update, it can take up to 24 hours before the trusted plugins get updated.
MainWP Auto Updates feature is a WP Cron driven feature, and it can work only if your WP Cron is triggered regularly.
If you want to make sure that WP Cron jobs are regularly triggered on your MainWP Dashboard, you can Authorize the Uptime Robot service and add your dashboard site as a monitor.Ā The Uptime Robot will ping your dashboard site regularly and make sure that all scheduled events are occurring.
