When doing an on demand update can you review the staging site manually before it pushes the updates to the live site? For some sites there are certain pages and processes that need to be checked by me before going live, especially on more complicated websites.
I wonder how this works with licensed plugins? If it creates a staging site, and you only have a license for 1 site, will the staging site be able to get the update?
If the updaes are done on a staging site then updates of plugins like elemntor pro and crockobloks will fail due to the licence is invalid for the staging site, won't it?
I have tried this feature and I am now in the process of deactivating it. I had it running for a few months on 45 websites, and there are some major issues. First, I don't believe their functionality can detect visual issues, because one of the websites kept getting really messed up due to a JS and CSS issue that didn't crash the site, but made it look like garbage. This whole "set and forget" marketing behind any safe update solution makes for bad website management. Second, half of the website updates were aborted every time it ran, causing these sites not to be updated anyway. Lastly, I am pretty sure the safe updates add-on runs off of your server's resources, because my servers either got slower or even crashed when the safe updates were running. If this is the case, why am I paying extra for every website to have this add-on activated? This solution should give you additional resources specifically for the feature.
Interesting, thanks for the information. The issue with many of our sites that we update is due to the nature of things on them that unless you clear the cache after the updates it can cause issues on the front end which is my concern with using this
I rather keep using WP-staging Pro and do it that way. Because it's not that stressful, you're telling people here… Probably only just saying it for the Promotion video...
Depends on your level of confidence and if you have a load of sites to manage. As someone who manages a good few sites, I'd rather not have to deal with creating staging sites, running backups, installing updates, checking everything and then pushing it back to the live site. Nothing to do with promotion, it's a feature that helps relieve the stress and hassle of the constant WordPress updates. :)
@@WPTuts A proper hosting company already makes backups for you from the website and the SQL database. And WP staging Pro is super easy to use. With 1 button, you can even completely update reset the staging site, update it or remove it.
@@hakaiyou4532spoken like someone who's never had to worry about WooCommerce, and dealing with data sync issues. Cloudways actually has a very nice tool for creating and managing a staging environment. That problem has already been solved. But, there's a lot of extra work and risk when moving changes from staging back to live for an e-commerce site, since data is actively being changed on live, going out of sync with stage. Sure, you can exclude Woo tables, but there's always a bit of risk. SafeUpdates is super nice because for plugin updates, at least I no longer have to do all this work by hand.
Is it possible to defer the updates for say 24/48 hours after the plugin update has been released, jic there were some post release bugs that need to be fixed also would you trust it to update Elementor?
Hi John, Not possible to defer but yes you can exclude critical plugins from the list of scheduled updates. Updating Elementor is safe and regarding pro, Cloudways SafeUpdates new release is on the way
I don't think I would trust their AI based screenshot site comparison on very complex sites (particularly Elementor+ various add-ons). Maybe could be useful for very basic websites with not much plugins installed. For maintenance multiple sites i still prefer MainWP.
There is a known vulnerability (insecurity) in the core WordPress plugin that has not been patched. This has been an issue for many months and something that WordPress don't seem to want to address as a security issue.
Fair play to Cloudways, this is a big feature! No more manual staging sites for testing updates.
It's pretty cool and super easy to setup.
When doing an on demand update can you review the staging site manually before it pushes the updates to the live site? For some sites there are certain pages and processes that need to be checked by me before going live, especially on more complicated websites.
I wonder how this works with licensed plugins? If it creates a staging site, and you only have a license for 1 site, will the staging site be able to get the update?
How many page snapshots does it compare, is it just the homepage?
If the updaes are done on a staging site then updates of plugins like elemntor pro and crockobloks will fail due to the licence is invalid for the staging site, won't it?
Very good work!
Can't wait to see this built into a standalone plugin like WPVivid
Thanks mate
I have tried this feature and I am now in the process of deactivating it. I had it running for a few months on 45 websites, and there are some major issues. First, I don't believe their functionality can detect visual issues, because one of the websites kept getting really messed up due to a JS and CSS issue that didn't crash the site, but made it look like garbage. This whole "set and forget" marketing behind any safe update solution makes for bad website management. Second, half of the website updates were aborted every time it ran, causing these sites not to be updated anyway. Lastly, I am pretty sure the safe updates add-on runs off of your server's resources, because my servers either got slower or even crashed when the safe updates were running. If this is the case, why am I paying extra for every website to have this add-on activated? This solution should give you additional resources specifically for the feature.
Interesting, thanks for the information. The issue with many of our sites that we update is due to the nature of things on them that unless you clear the cache after the updates it can cause issues on the front end which is my concern with using this
I rather keep using WP-staging Pro and do it that way. Because it's not that stressful, you're telling people here… Probably only just saying it for the Promotion video...
Depends on your level of confidence and if you have a load of sites to manage. As someone who manages a good few sites, I'd rather not have to deal with creating staging sites, running backups, installing updates, checking everything and then pushing it back to the live site.
Nothing to do with promotion, it's a feature that helps relieve the stress and hassle of the constant WordPress updates. :)
@@WPTuts A proper hosting company already makes backups for you from the website and the SQL database. And WP staging Pro is super easy to use. With 1 button, you can even completely update reset the staging site, update it or remove it.
@@hakaiyou4532spoken like someone who's never had to worry about WooCommerce, and dealing with data sync issues. Cloudways actually has a very nice tool for creating and managing a staging environment. That problem has already been solved. But, there's a lot of extra work and risk when moving changes from staging back to live for an e-commerce site, since data is actively being changed on live, going out of sync with stage. Sure, you can exclude Woo tables, but there's always a bit of risk. SafeUpdates is super nice because for plugin updates, at least I no longer have to do all this work by hand.
Is it possible to defer the updates for say 24/48 hours after the plugin update has been released, jic there were some post release bugs that need to be fixed also would you trust it to update Elementor?
Hi John, Not possible to defer but yes you can exclude critical plugins from the list of scheduled updates. Updating Elementor is safe and regarding pro, Cloudways SafeUpdates new release is on the way
I don't think I would trust their AI based screenshot site comparison on very complex sites (particularly Elementor+ various add-ons).
Maybe could be useful for very basic websites with not much plugins installed.
For maintenance multiple sites i still prefer MainWP.
Vulnerability Scanner: WordPress core 6.5.3 insecure in Cloudways. What is meaning???PLEASE
There is a known vulnerability (insecurity) in the core WordPress plugin that has not been patched.
This has been an issue for many months and something that WordPress don't seem to want to address as a security issue.
@@WPTuts Thank you very much!
Paul, ignore the contact request from LikedIn (steri-shield). I sent it by mistake from the client's account. :)