The WordPress developer team is working on adding an auto-update mechanism to themes and plugins, a common source of website hacks, primarily because site owners usually install themes and plugins, and then forget to update them.
Work on this feature began months ago.
Currently, the auto-update feature is already implemented for plugins, and work is underway on adding it to WordPress’ themes feature.
Once the auto-update option rolls out for the stable versions of the WordPress content management…
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