Update several WordPress instances at once

  • Phil Marx

    (@ilikewordpress)


    14 years, 4 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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  • Alessio Lo Vecchio

    (@youon)

    14 years, 4 months ago

    7 WordPress are hard to update?
    7 clicks 🙂

    Thread Starter Phil Marx

    (@ilikewordpress)

    14 years, 4 months ago

    – 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… 😉

    Alessio Lo Vecchio

    (@youon)

    14 years, 4 months ago

    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)

    14 years, 4 months ago

    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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