Automatic Updates for Multisite

[dlukefinch]

Still no auto updates for Wordpress Multisite?

You’ve released some great features lately but somehow cannot implement this simple but time-saving feature. Why is it taking so long?

Updating manually takes a fair amount of time and is getting tiresome.

Despite this; you guys are still awesome

[Prasant]

Hello @dfinch,

Thanks for asking.

Actually there isn’t a way for themes to provide automatic updates on multisite since code can’t be run at a network level. Unfortunately you will have to update the sites manually.

Thanks for understanding.

[dlukefinch]

What?! Can you explain your staff responses here then as they suggest it’s an error and attempt to fix it leaving me to believe a fix is coming.

Automatic Update Not Working

[alexander]

I’m sorry for the misinformation. The first reply from Jack on that other thread is correct. It’s a WordPress limitation. Plugins can be network activated but themes can’t, so there’s no consistent way to show an update notification without us creating a separate plugin to handle it.