WordPress 2.9 Batch Plugin Updates – Amazing!

Since I started using WordPress in 2007, I’ve been very impressed with each new version of the software. I started with WordPress back in the 2.6 era. I wasn’t initially all that impressed with the user interface, but once 2.7 came out I knew that the development community was really on to something.

Each subsequent release brought some great new features that made WordPress easier to use, faster and less irritating.  They really seemed to have a sense of which features would benefit developers and end-users.  But there’s a new feature in 2.9 that relieves a lot of headaches…

Updating Plugins

One of the frustrations I’ve always had with WordPress is that when you use a lot of plugins and extensions (all my websites do), the individual developers make updates fairly often which means that at any given time, several plugins might be using old versions that are out-of-date.

It’s important to keep plugins at their newest version to ensure compatibility with WordPress and to lessen security risks.

In older versions of WordPress, you had to manually update each plugin, which could take up to a minute or two each.  That means that if I had 5 plugins that needed to be updated, it might take 10+ minutes to perform the operation.

Because of this, a lot of plugins simply didn’t get updated as often as they should have.

Enter Batch Plugin Updates

This feature is fantastic.  Now, when you update WordPress, it gives you the option to update all plugins at once.  Here’s what it looks like.

I just tried it and it really blew my mind.  I had 10 plugins that were out of date and it updated all of them in less than a minute.  That’s a huge benefit.

My Challenge to You

I’d like to issue a challenge…  Look at your business and think about this WordPress example.  How can you make things easier for your customers?  Can you make your service easier to use, more time saving, or less irritating?  Do a customer survey to find out what your customers find annoying or irritating about doing business with you.  I guarantee it will get you noticed.

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