- This script is useful, when you need to bulk update all the WordPress installations on a server.
- It can be n number of installations, considering their respected document root exists in one root directory.
- If you are running a patched theme/plugin or own version of standard theme /plugin , you will loose the patches.
- Be really careful, while executing this script.
- It is highly recommended to take all the backups before updating everything at once.
- Update WordPress core,
- Update all the repository themes installed
- Update All the repository plugins installed
- Update translations
- Delete expired transient cache
- You need WP-CLI installed
- Web: https://wp-cli.org
- You can only update WordPress installations.
- You have installed WP-CLI using the instructions from https://wp-cli.org
- Your WP-CLI is installed in /usr/local/bin/
- In case you are running WP-CLI locally from a directory, make sure to change the path before wp in the script
- Make sure to replace document root from
/var/www/*with what ever document root of your all the WordPress websites are. - In case you keep your WordPress installations one or two level down change the path accordingly.
- For instance,
/var/www/html/*/htdocs;
- Logon to your server via ssh
- upload the script on your home directory.
- change file permissions to be executable by your user group atleast
chmod g+x wpbulkupdate.sh
- Run
~/wpbulkupdate.sh
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Lets say you wanna udpate everything via a cronjob, which executes every night at 1am.
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crontab -eand Add following job.0 1 * * * ~/wpbulkupdate.sh -
You can use https://crontab.guru/ to learn more about cron schedule expressions.