Increased Transparency and Functionality for WordPress Automatic Updates
under review
Christopher Miller
There are many situations in which WordPress automatic updates fail, requiring manual update of plugins, a daunting task for plans with many sites and many plugins per-site. Ideally this failure rate should be as low as possible, and in situations that the automatic update fails, specific reasons should be given, along with potential troubleshooting instructions.
Tiffany Bridge
under review
We are in a constant state of monitoring and trying to improve the success rate of our Visual Comparison tool. In general, there are two major reasons why plugins don't update on our platform:
- The visual change it introduces to a site is too great for Visual Compare to allow it without the customer reviewing it and allowing it through. You can see this in the Visual Compare tab of each site.
- The Visual Compare service wasn't able to run because the site is too large for us to copy efficiently to run the comparison test.
We're constantly trying to refine the visual tolerance as well as make the site copy more efficient to keep plugins as up to date as possible.