wp-auto-update.rb

What's this?

"wp-auto-update.rb" is a ruby script to update WordPress websites. Once you setup a configuration file (YAML format), it cruises multiple websites and updates WordPress automatically.

Features

It updates WordPress websites the following processes.

1. Exports database
2. Updates WordPress core files
3. Updates all plugins (only distributed on plugins directory)
4. Updates all themes (only distributed on themes directory)
5. Updates WP-CLI
6. Checks the website is whether in active or inactive

Requires

Local host

• SSH access is allowed
• WP-CLI
• Ruby
  • Net::SSH package (apply with gem install net-ssh)
  • Mail package (apply with gem install mail)

Remote host

• SSH access is allowed (also possible SSH public key authentication)
• WP-CLI

Related script

• wp-cli.setup.sh
  A shell script to install "WP-CLI" into common hosting servers.

Installation and usage

1. git clone or download and expand ZIP file
2. Rename "config-sample.yml" to "config.yml" (is the configuration file)
3. Setup "config.yml"
4. Execute ruby wp-auto-update.rb

Settings for the configuration file (config.yml)

Please refer to "config-sample.yml". (*) = required.

admin section

• from
  E-mail address of check results sender (*)
• to
  E-mail address that you want to receive (*)
• subject
  Check results subject (also possible ISO 8601 date format)

users section

• name
  Identify name (*)
• url
  Site URL (*)
• host
  Hostname (FQDN, also possible IP address) (*)
• user
  Username (*)
• pass
  Password (you can omit under SSH public key authentication)
• port
  SSH port (*)
• key
  Path to the private key file (it requires under SSH public key authentication)
• phrase
  Passphrase (it requires under SSH public key authentication)
• dir
  Path to the directory WordPress is installed (*)
• force
  Force updating (wp core update --force) either or not (boolean, default = false)
• command
  Specify to run PHP or WP-CLI with full path

Option

Execute with -f option, you can choose any configuration files. If it is empty, the script reads "config.yml" in the same directory.

Example

ruby wp-auto-update.rb -f config.foobar.yml

Notice

• Please use At Your Own Risk
• Tested environment (hosting servers)
  • SAKURA Rental Server (Japan)
  • Heteml (Japan)
  • LOLIPOP! Rentel Server (Japan)
  • XSERVER (Japan)

Changelog

• 0.6.5 (2020-04-02)
  • Updated wp language command
• 0.6.4 (2019-05-23)
  • Fixed bash section
• 0.6.3 (2019-05-17)
  • Added command configuration
  • Removed bash section
• 0.6.2 (2018-02-11)
  • Fixed wp core update command
• 0.6.1 (2018-02-11)
  • Fixed wp core update command
• 0.6.0 (2018-02-10)
  • Updated wp core update command
  • Added force configuration
• 0.5.2 (2018-02-09)
  • Changed GPL license to MIT
• 0.5.1 (2017-06-21)
  • Fixed wp cli update command
• 0.5.0 (2017-03-17)
  • Updated wp core update command
  • Added wp core language command
• 0.4.0 (2017-02-23)
  • Updated wp db export command
  • Changed MIT license to GPL
• 0.3.0 (2015-12-10)
  • Added wp cli update command
• 0.2.0 (2015-05-19)
  • Sending update results via E-mail
  • Added alive checker
• 0.1.0 (2015-05-15)
  • Opening to the public

License

MIT License