Update plugins in bulk

You can efficiently manage and update plugins across all your WordPress.com sites. This guide will show you how to view, activate, deactivate, update, and remove plugins in bulk.

This feature is available on sites with the WordPress.com Personal, Premium, Business, and Commerce plans. For sites on the Free plan, upgrade your plan to access this feature.

To view the plugins installed across all of the sites you are an administrator on:

1. Visit your Sites list at https://wordpress.com/sites
2. Select Plugins in the left-hand sidebar.
3. Click “Manage Plugins“.
4. Next to a plugin, click on the vertical ellipsis (⋮) icon under Actions to view the available options:
   • Manage Plugin: Takes you to the plugin page where you can more granularly manage the plugin installs across all of your sites.
   • Activate: Activates the selected plugin on all sites on which it is installed.
   • Deactivate: Deactivates the selected plugin on all sites on which it is installed.
   • Enable auto-updates: Your selected plugin will update on all sites as soon as an update becomes available.
   • Disable auto-updates: Disables autoupdates across all of your sites. The selected plugin will require manual or scheduled updates.
   • Remove: Deactivates and removes the selected plugin from all sites.

By default, the plugins page shows all of your plugins. You can filter your plugins by using the Search field or by clicking the icon next to search input that looks like three bars.

Doing do will allow you to choose one of the following Status options:

• Active: All of the plugins that have at least one active install on one of your sites.
• Inactive: All of the plugins that are inactive across all of your sites.
• Needs update: Any plugin that requires an update.

You may also change the appearance, sorting, and properties shown on this page by clicking the gear icon in the right corner:

When you click the “Manage Plugin” option in the Actions column, you’ll be taken to the plugin’s page. Click the “Manage sites” button to manage the installations, activations, autoupdates, and removals for each of your sites.

You’ll find a list of the sites where the selected plugin is installed, as well as toggles to:

• Activate/deactivate the plugin
• Enable/disable autoupdates for the plugin

In the “Available on” panel at the bottom, you’ll find any additional sites on which the plugin is not installed and an Install button for each site. If you see a “Go to plugin page” button on your site instead, that means that the site is not on a plugin-enabled plan and must be upgraded in order to install the plugin.