I have a lot of blogs on my server and almost all of them run wordpress. Half are mine and the rest are friend’s blogs which I am nice enough to host for them.

The problem with this, is that wordpress rolls out a new upgrade every couple of months, sometimes more frequently. Upgrading wordpress is kind of a hassle, especially when this needs to be done to 20 of them at once.

There are two options to make this much easier. One is using Sub Version, however this is kind of technical. The other is to install the wordpress automatic upgrade plugin.

It is a simple install like all wordpress plugins, and it basically lets you upgrade the wordpress software in literally 10 seconds. It even makes a backup for you to revert to should something go wrong. Very handy, upgrading 20 wordpress blogs takes about 5 minutes now, log into the admin panel and click a button, make sure it worked, and onto the next one. Easy as pie.