We’ve added a new option for users of the Kinsta Automatic Updates add-on to manage the alerts they receive when that service works to upgrade plugins and themes on their WordPress sites.
In addition, we are now dialing back on attempts to upgrade individual plugins and themes that repeatedly fail automatic update visual regression testing.
It’s all part of our efforts to help you keep your WordPress sites up and running with minimum fuss, no matter how many you manage.
New weekly automatic update digests
You can now choose to get email notifications about plugin and theme updates in a single recap every Friday.
To enable weekly messages and control what kind of alerts you need to see, start by clicking on your own name in the upper right corner of the MyKinsta dashboard to reach User settings on the dropdown menu. Next, select Notifications in the left navigation and scroll down to the Kinsta Automatic Updates section:
Using the controls shown above, you can enable the weekly update option and still choose to be notified immediately of failed or successful updates.
Detecting repeated failure of theme and plugin updates
As users of Kinsta Automatic Updates know, after an update attempt, the add-on can visually compare before and after images of a site’s homepage and four randomly selected pages (or specific pages you choose) in an effort to detect failure.
If a plugin or theme update fails three times, the add-on will begin a regimen of increasing delays for future attempts, giving you time to troubleshoot the problem.
The update schedule after those repeated failures looks like this:
- Fourth attempt: retry after one day
- Fifth attempt: after two days
- Sixth attempt: after four days
- Seventh attempt: after eight days
- Eighth attempt: after 16 days
- Then every 30 days until the update succeeds
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