Keeping WordPress, plugins, and themes up to date is an important part of maintaining a secure and reliable website. Siteligent brings these update tasks into one dashboard, allowing you to manage your WordPress software remotely instead of logging into every site individually.
Manage Plugins and Themes
Siteligent retrieves information about the plugins and themes installed on your WordPress site, including available updates. From the Siteligent dashboard, you can perform common plugin and theme management tasks remotely.
Plugins
For installed plugins, Siteligent allows you to:
View the plugins installed on the site
Activate a plugin
Deactivate a plugin
Delete a plugin
Install a new plugin from the official WordPress repository
Upload and install a plugin using a custom ZIP package
This is useful when managing several WordPress sites because you can handle routine plugin administration without opening the WordPress dashboard for each site.
Themes
For themes, Siteligent allows you to:
View installed themes
Change the active theme
Delete unused themes
Upload custom theme files
Be careful when changing or deleting themes on a production site. Make sure the theme you are switching to is compatible with your site's current configuration before making the change.
Manage WordPress Core Updates
Siteligent monitors WordPress core releases and shows you when a newer version is available. This includes both major and minor WordPress releases.
When a core update is available:
Siteligent displays the available update along with information about the release.
Review the release information and changelog.
Select Update Core to start the update.
Siteligent instructs the Siteligent Connector to run WordPress's native core upgrade process.
Using WordPress's native upgrader means the core update follows the standard WordPress upgrade process rather than replacing core files through an unrelated mechanism.
When File Modifications Are Disabled
Some WordPress installations intentionally prevent applications from modifying files. Siteligent respects this security setting.
If your wp-config.php contains:
define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true);WordPress file modifications are disabled. In this situation, Siteligent will not bypass the restriction to perform an update. Instead, the Connector returns a 403 Forbidden response.
If you want Siteligent to manage plugin, theme, or core updates, review your DISALLOW_FILE_MODS configuration first.
Plugin and Theme Updates vs. Safe Updates
A normal plugin or theme update changes the installed files to the newer version.
For higher-risk production updates, Siteligent also provides Safe Updates, which adds health checks, backups or snapshots, cache clearing, and post-update validation before allowing the update to remain active. The Safe Update workflow is covered in the separate Updating Plugins & Themes Safely article.
For sites where uptime and compatibility are especially important, Safe Updates are the better choice when available.