Title: Automatically Updating WordPress
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Automatically Updating WordPress

 *  [lawrencejob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lawrencejob/)
 * (@lawrencejob)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-updating-wordpress/)
 * Hello!
 * Haven’t said much but I wanted to know your opinions on the following.
 * I’ve always wondered why you don’t implement an automatic theme or plugin upload
   feature onto wordpress. I wrote my own uploader. I would package it as a plugin
   but my method for unzipping the files probably won’t work on every server, rendering
   the project pointless. That’s my first thing. Next is the new plugins updater,
   that one’s great. I haven’t seen it working on themes yet, though.
 * What could be even better is an automatic update script for WP itself. Surely
   that’s even easier than a plugin! Having said that, it’s equally as bad a security
   risk, and that should be considered fully before any features are implemented
   on such a big framework.
 * So what do you guys think?

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 * [automatic update](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/automatic-update/)
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 * Last reply from: [lawrencejob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lawrencejob/)
 * Last activity: [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-updating-wordpress/)
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