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WordPress Updates

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The Updates page gathers everything outdated across your WordPress sites into one table and clears it at whatever granularity you want: one item, one site, or every selected site in a single batch.

Panel locationWP Toolkit → Updateshttps://YOUR-SERVER-IP:8443/wordpress/updates
 WordPress Updates · example.com
Total 7Core 1Plugins 5Themes 1 Update All (7)
ItemTypeVersionAction
WordPress CoreCORE6.6.2 → 6.7update
WooCommercePLUGIN9.8 → 9.9update

What it tracks

Four update types per site: core (the WordPress release itself), plugins, themes, and translations (shown as a pending-translations count). Stat badges at the top break the backlog down by type, and the table below lists each item with its current and target versions; a text search and a type filter narrow long lists.

Only active sites appear here, and frozen sites show their updates read-only with a notice: unfreeze first, update, freeze again. That freeze-update-freeze rhythm is the recommended way to run hardened sites.

Three sizes of update

  1. One row: the update button on any line updates just that item, instantly, no confirmation dialog.
  2. One site: Update All clears the active site's whole backlog: core, then all plugins, then all themes. The floating bar over the checkboxes does the same for a hand-picked subset.
  3. Many sites: select several sites in the left panel and Update Everything walks them one by one, running core, plugin and theme updates on each and summarizing successes and failures at the end.
Patch-day example: a critical plugin vulnerability drops. Open Updates, tick all your sites on the left, hit Update Everything, and read the summary toast: eight sites clean, one failed. Only the failure needs your attention now, and its site is named in the report.
Where is auto-update? Automatic core updates are a per-site choice made at install time (and by WordPress's own settings); this page is the manual, audited path. Updates run server-side through WP-CLI as each site's own Linux user, inside its resource limits.

Access

Behind the wordpress license feature, scoped to the sites of accounts you own.

Panelica Documentation · Written and verified against the live panel. · Last verified 2026-07-23 on Panelica 1.0.375