Updates in WordPress are often vital to your security. Some of the updates just add a few features, but many of the major updates will actually fill in some of the security holes. These are very important and you need to make sure you enable automatic updates for major releases of WordPress.

In this WordPress Tutorial, you will discover how to set your major WordPress Releases to update automatically. You may have already disabled automatic updates because of the customization of your website. However, this post will show you how to turn on the major updates, so that you don't miss anything you really need.

<h2>Turning on Automatic WordPress Updates</h2>

If your WordPress website has a ton of customization you may not want to update WordPress all the time. However, if it's a major release, you will want WordPress to automatically update. It helps if you're confident in the hosting you're using and with ITX Design, that's not an issue. With good hosting, your themes and plugins will be ready for any update, no matter how big or small. 

Turning on the automatic WordPress updates is done by adding a line of code to your wp-config.php file. Simply add the following code to this file:

<img src="https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/AutomaticUpdateCode.png" alt="Automatic Update Code" width="317" height="36" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-7150" />

Now, this code will enable automatic updates in WordPress. However, it will also enable the nightly or development updates, which can be a problem. If you want to get rid of the nightly or development updates, you will need to add a little more code to one of your site-specific plugins or your functions.php file. Just add this code to one or the other:

<a href="https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/NighlyUpdateCode.png"><img src="https://itxdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/NighlyUpdateCode.png" alt="Nightly Update Code" width="511" height="33" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-7151" /></a>

This will disable automatic updates for development or nightly updates only. Once you have added the code, your WordPress sites will automatically update with any of the major releases, but not with the nightly or development updates.

Now, you know how to set up your WordPress website to ensure it updates whenever a major release comes out. This is very important and will help to ensure you don't get hacked or have other issues causing your site to go down.
