Updates & maintenance
Update plugins and themes across one site or all your sites in a single click. Plus recovery when updates go wrong.
Update a plugin or theme
How to update a single plugin or theme from Manage GPL — what happens under the hood and what to do if it fails.
Bulk-update a plugin across all sites
If Yoast just shipped a version bump, push it to all your sites in one click instead of clicking Update 47 times.
When an update fails
What to check when a plugin update shows as failed, how to diagnose the cause from the activity log, and how to retry safely.
How Manage GPL detects update availability
Where the "Update available" indicator comes from — how the plugin catalogue syncs, what WordPress reports, and why some updates take an hour to show up.
Auto-heal: recovering from a fatal plugin error
How Manage GPL's connector detects and automatically deactivates a plugin that's about to take your site down after an update — and what you should do next.
Schedule automatic plugin & theme updates
Pick a cadence (daily or specific days), a time, and a timezone. Global defaults plus per-site overrides.
Enable maintenance mode on a site
Show visitors a branded 503 holding page while you do work on the site. Per-site, manual, paid plans only. Admins stay logged in.
Use vendor updates instead of GPL Times for a specific plugin
When you license a premium plugin (like Gravity Forms) directly from its vendor, you can tell Manage GPL to skip the GPL Times catalog for that one slug and route updates through the vendor's own feed.