Improving WordPress Maintenance Quality with SSH + WP-CLI — A Framework for Safer Updates
WordPress maintenance usually means updating the core, plugins, and themes. In most agencies, this is done by logging into the admin dashboard, clicking the “Update” button on each plugin, checking the front page, and moving on to the next site. This works fine for a handful of sites. But once you manage more than a few, the limitations become hard to ignore: The dashboard only offers “Update all” or “Tick each one” — no real middle ground When something breaks after an update, isolating the cause is messy Backups, visual checks, and rollback are all manual steps The quality of maintenance varies by who is on the keyboard, and at …