Ensuring the safety and security of a website is paramount for every website owner. One effective approach to securing your website is by ensuring that all themes and plugins are up to date. However, keeping track of update schedules for numerous websites can be challenging. Fortunately, 10Web provides a solution by enabling you to schedule automatic updates for your themes and plugins.
Scheduling automatic theme updates
To set a schedule for the automatic updates of your themes:
- Log into your 10Web dashboard
- Click on the website where you want to schedule the updates
- Click on WordPress Themes > Scheduling
- Click the Enable Scheduling toggle so that it’s green
- Choose the best interval of updates for your website: monthly, weekly, daily
- Enter the Start Time and Day
Important:
Please note that the scheduling feature will use the time of the time zone set by you on your account.
- Click on Enable Backup services to perform safe updates
Note:
As an extra security measure, enabling the Backup service will allow us to automatically backup your website before a theme update is performed.
- Tick the checkbox in front of the themes you want to schedule for updates or
- If you want to perform a bulk update, tick the checkbox in front of Include all
- Lastly, click Save & Schedule
History
In the History tab, you can view a record of all the scheduled updates that have been completed, along with the date of the last update, the names of the updated themes, and the versions of the themes before and after the update.