Title: WordPress updates
Last modified: October 18, 2017

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# WordPress updates

 *  Resolved [rudym](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rudym/)
 * (@rudym)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-updates-5/)
 * So, I’ve been tasked with training users on how to use their WordPress site. 
   They seem to want ‘user-level’ training, but added that they would also like 
   to learn more things to do.
 * One of these things is updating their WP site. However, I’m seeing that their
   site dashboard says that the latest WP security updates will be applied automatically.
   Does this mean that they wouldn’t need to update their WP versions too?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-updates-5/#post-9598188)
 * By default, WordPress is configured to apply minor updates automatically (eg.
   4.8.2 -> 4.8.3) but major updates still need to be triggered manually in most
   cases (e.g. 4.8.x -> 4.9). The only exception to this (that I know of) is when
   WordPress has been installed via a hosts’ 1-click installer which may have offered
   an option to automatically apply major updates also.
 * So I suppose your first step would be to identify if a 1-click installer was 
   used in the initial installation of WordPress and, if “yes”, how that installer
   was.is configured.
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/).
 *  Thread Starter [rudym](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rudym/)
 * (@rudym)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-updates-5/#post-9598658)
 * Thanks, [@esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/), this is likely a 
   1-click setup. I noticed that WordPress was updated automatically from 4.7 to
   current 4.8, and nobody there seems to know how that was done.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [rudym](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rudym/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-updates-5/#post-9598658)
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