I manage a WordPress site hosted on SiteGround for a friend. The website keeps going down due to updates of some sort or another, and I’m trying to resolve this issue.

SiteGround forces major and minor auto-updates at least every 3 days (if available), and offers the option to autoupdate plugins (which I have on). Inside of the WordPress admin page, none of the plugins are set to auto-update, and I can see some offering to update individually/manually.

My question is this: what is the intended update model for WordPress? Should I just set everything to autoupdate to the extent possible? Although I’m facing issues now, my other software experiences tell me this is a bad idea. I’m used to “update when you want or need a new feature, but nothing will break if you don’t”, but is this just not how WordPress was designed?

Thanks!

  • @BuildoutOP
    3•26 days ago

    Thanks for the insight. Just to be clear, your suggestion is: auto-update as much stuff as possible and don’t worry about it?

    • @[email protected]
      3•26 days ago

      Yeah totally.

      Also since you’re using WordPress, get a backup plugin like WP backup and have it back up every week to a free Dropbox or Google drive. (Uncertain if they still do free auto uploads).

      I would not recommend using only your web provider’s backup tool.