Leaj Inarry

ashiquzzaman, I understand that the updates are important, that is not the issue. The issue is that this seems to be a bad design flaw in WP. I have used WP for over a decade and I’m now seriously looking at other alternatives as I just don’t have the time to keep up with the numerous updates each week.

Maybe a better system would only require WP to be updated and all the plugins and themes would not need updates and the WP framework updates would take care of any issues. Of course this would mean completely rewriting WP from scratch and it would probably never happen.

Lets look at a few examples.

Lets say you have a WP website, a theme and maybe the default theme, say about 10 plugins. That is 13 items that will need ongoing updates. Now lets say you have 20 websites X 13 = 260 updates needed. Most of those would be updated once a month and often more. So that is a lot of updates you have to constantly keep on top of. I have about 40 websites on WP so you can double that and you get an idea how much of a PITA this is.

In my opinion, WP is fine if you have 1 or 2 blogs but anything more it can be a lot of work.

Andrew, with manual updating it is a big issue and that is the point. With multi websites whether it’s 10 or 50 you can spend a lot of time looking after updates. The themes and plugins will often clash after updates seriously. You can’t just run auto updates if you want your websites all working.