“Just turn on automatic updates, you will be fine”, Tim Nash

Automatic updates in WordPress area safety net, ensuring that sites are always running the latest code. In the world where vulnerabilities are exploited in hours not days or weeks as they were a few years ago they are essential.
For years my advice has been turn on automatic updates and do you know what, you probably will be fine.
But for development teams working with continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), the reality is more complicated. Updates don’t just affect WordPress core, they pull in changes from plugins, themes, and their underlying dependencies. If those updates are flawed or malicious, they can just as easily break a site or introduce unwanted behaviour as they can fix stuff.
In this talk Tim will explore practical ways to make automatic updates safer without slowing down your workflow. From “staging”, checking the integrity of what’s being installed, and building automated checks into your CI/CD process to spot issues before they reach production.

It doesn’t matter if you manage a single site or hundreds, you’ll leave with straightforward techniques for keeping your update process both fast and dependable.