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WordPress 2.9 Batch Plugin Upgrades

My first 2 WP 2.9 upgrades went well tonight. Only 20 more to go. One of the features I’ve been looking forward to is the ability to upgrade all plugins that can be upgraded all at the same time. I can tell you from experience maintaining a fleet of WP installations is time consuming and there is a significant amount of pure maintenance work. Updates to WordPress  itself happen frequently, and depending on your site you might have 5 to 10 plugins that all get updgrades from time to time. So anything that can do the grunt work better, faster, and more efficiently is appreciated.

Note the location for the batch upgrades feature is found at:  Dashboard/Tools/Upgrade

My results were flawless on the first time around with the batch upgrade process:

So I’d like to welcome the version to a long healthy life, I’ll just mention it’s called Carmen McRae after the late Jazz great…