What we manage for you
Core updates
Security and minor releases are switched on when your Pressy is built, and WordPress installs them on its own schedule. Major versions wait for you unless you set the auto-update policy to include them.
A core update you start from the dashboard runs four steps: back up, update, check the site still answers, attempt a restore from that backup if it does not. The backup is a new one, or the most recent if you took one within the hour. If neither is possible, the update does not run at all.
WordPress' own automatic releases do not pass through those steps. For them, the weekly and on-demand backups are the safety net, and a restore is one click away.
The Activity log feed on the WordPress screen records each one.
Plugins and themes are yours
Each has its own auto-update switch and we never change them. The one exception is a Stack, which installs a theme and up to five plugins while your Pressy is built; everything about them is yours from the moment it is live.
The health strip
Four facts, read live: the core version, how many updates are waiting, whether maintenance mode is on, and whether any debug flag is set.
WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY is called out by name because it prints PHP errors onto
your live pages. All three debug flags are off on a new Pressy, and the useful
combination while chasing a bug is WP_DEBUG and WP_DEBUG_LOG on,
WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY off.
What this can’t do
Hiding a site from search engines happens inside WordPress, not on this screen. Staging sites are indexable too.
What to do: use Settings → Reading → Discourage search engines inside WordPress. For real privacy rather than politeness, put the site behind a password with a plugin.
Version numbers are what WordPress reports about itself.
What to do: if an update keeps reappearing after you install it, check the plugin inside WordPress rather than here.
A Stack plugin that fails to install does not fail the build. The screen names the one that did not make it.
What to do: install it by hand.
Nothing here manages WordPress users, roles or capabilities.
What to do: sign in with one click and manage them under Users.
Maintenance mode blocks wp-admin too, and its holding page cannot be
edited.
What to do: turn it off from the dashboard, which is the only route back in — full detail.
Didn’t solve it?
Write to us with your Pressy’s address and what you were doing when it went wrong. Answered by the people who built it.
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