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By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:34:06 +0000

When I first checked out Pagely, my reaction was something like, “this is cool, but why bother updating the core if people are going to have to log in and update plugins anyway?” It seemed nice, but just half-way there.

So a plugin update feature would be awesome – and if the system can automatically check that it hasn’t broken the site, so much the better.

On the other hand – I’m guessing there are some who just use Pagely because it’s easy to get going, but want to login all the time and take full control of their site – so it seems an opt-out would be appreciated.

Either way, it’s great to hear you’re working on such big improvements here.

By: Christine Green

Christine Green — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 02:12:53 +0000

Thanks for the details. Sounds fantastic to me!

By: Joshua Strebel

Joshua Strebel — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:39:04 +0000

Yeah Christine, the whitescreen check and plugin reset is automatic. So you would not have to check anything. Only if you got an email that there was a problem with a plugin, you would login and turn on plugins 1by1 till you found it. Then you could turn them all back on except that 1.

And again, even if we do an automatic reset, important plugins like all-in-one-seo-pack, akismet, etc. would be turned back on automatically by us.

By: Christine Green

Christine Green — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:35:37 +0000

This sounds great, Josh! I have a question:
Do you have a way of knowing which sites break (whitescreen) from an update or would we have to be checking our own sites continuously? I would certainly opt in to have Pagely do the plugin updates as that is one less thing I have to do for my clients sites. I’m hoping you will keep adding monthly maintenance features that will remove the need for me to handle any of it. Thanks!