The WordPress developer team is working on adding an auto-update mechanism to themes and plugins, a common source of website hacks, primarily because site owners usually install themes and plugins, ...

Hackers have started to target a critical severity vulnerability in the WP Automatic plugin for WordPress to create user accounts with administrative privileges and to plant backdoors for long-term ...

WordPress.org issued a statement to plugin developers to respect user decisions on automatic updates. The reminder comes after the publishers of the All in One SEO Plugin turned on automatic updates ...

WordPress maintenance headaches are now a thing of the past thanks to new automatic updates Kinsta, a managed hosting provider for WordPress powered by Google Cloud Platform, is announcing a new ...

Automatic update is a feature that allows plugins to update automatically without any action from the publisher. The common expectation is that this is something that a publisher opts into it. Some ...

In a nutshell: Many WordPress plugins are designed to enhance the content management system's ability to quickly and easily share content from almost anywhere on the internet. But one popular ...