Beyond ‘Update All’ — selecting plugins across sites while keeping every safety mechanism on
“A vulnerability in Elementor was just disclosed. Several of the sites I maintain run Elementor. I need to update only Elementor across those sites today.“ If you maintain WordPress sites for multiple clients, this scenario happens several times a month. Core updates and other plugin updates can wait for the regular maintenance run, but a specific plugin needs to land urgently. The trouble is that mainstream maintenance tools don’t really offer a UI for “a targeted update across multiple sites, with safety mechanisms intact.” Here’s how that design problem can be solved. The limits of an industry-standard “Update All” Most WordPress maintenance tools have an “Update All” button on each …