Manual or Automatic updates of plug ins for Wordpress?

[Katrina]

Do you have to manually update the plug ins for Wordpress? Can it be automated?

 

[Cam]

I believe you can set the vast majority of plugins to auto-update, so long as you have a valid license attached to the particular plugin. It takes time, but I'd rather manually upgrade one by one. Things sometimes break, and it's easier to identify the problem that way.

 

[Page]

Manual when I did it many years ago, Hance the addons 😛

 

[saoussen5765]

I recommend automatic updates because manual updates take a lot of time especially if the site has 40 plugins or more.

 

[Katrina]

I've been watching tutorials for WordPress and they recommend doing automatic updates. I guess part of the reason that my church website broke at times was because the secretary didn't update some of them? Possibly?

 

[TechWiz18]

Since I don't have time to monitor and go through on a regular basis and do manual updates, I just let the WP Manager in cPanel Automatically update everything, hasn't done me wrong yet. I also only have it do important and major updates.