Use case

Update every site, without breaking one

Bulk plugin updates and safe auto-updates across every site you look after, with a backup first, a test before risky updates, visual checks afterwards and automatic rollback.

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The problem

Why this is hard today

Updates pile up

Across every site you look after, plugin, theme and core updates arrive faster than anyone can click through them.

Some updates are riskier than others

A major version, or a plugin your theme depends on, can change the code your site relies on.

No error is not the same as working

A page can load without an error code and still look broken. Checking for errors alone misses it.

How MaintainHQ handles it

Every update takes the same safe path.

Safe auto-updates soak before they roll out, take a backup, are checked afterwards and roll back automatically if anything breaks.

Step 1: Set the rules
Safe auto-updates per site with lanes, soak times and fleet waves, or bulk plugin updates when you choose.
Step 2: Backup first
The pre-update backup has to finish first. A site whose backup fails is left alone.
Step 3: Test risky updates
Before a major version or a plugin your theme depends on reaches production, Gus reads its changelog, checks your theme code and tries it on staging when there is one.
Step 4: You approve
Major versions wait for your approval. If the test finds a problem, production waits too, with the reasons.
Step 5: Update and check
The update runs, then visual checks look at the site afterwards.
Step 6: Roll back
If the site breaks, the update is rolled back automatically and you are alerted.

Pre-update testing also checks must-use plugins for code that uses the plugin being updated.
Post a maintenance window on any status page that shows the site while an update runs.
A weekly email summary of the updates applied across your sites.
Rolled-back updates are sent as instant alerts, by email, to Slack or to your own webhook.

What's involved