Kinsta Releases Automatic Plugin Updates to Make WordPress Updates Seamless and Secure

WordPress maintenance headaches are now a thing of the past thanks to new automatic updates

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kinsta, a managed hosting provider for WordPress powered by Google Cloud Platform, is announcing a new feature: Kinsta Automatic Updates to make managing WordPress updates easy and secure—with no disruptions.

This major advancement eliminates the biggest burdens of WordPress maintenance: the risk of site-breaking updates, time-consuming manual updates and security vulnerabilities from outdated plugins.

Kinsta takes the hassle out of managing WordPress updates with an automated, secure and seamless solution. With built-in visual regression testing, Kinsta now detects and rolls back any issues before they impact customers’ live websites. Kinsta keeps sites up and running without downtime while alerting customers of any potential conflicts.

Customers on Kinsta’s premium managed hosting platform not only get the speed, reliability and security of Kinsta’s infrastructure but also a seamless, hands-off approach to WordPress maintenance. With Kinsta Automatic Updates site owners and agency managers can save themselves hours of work each month.

Kinsta’s Automatic Updates offer three features:

• Automatic Updates: Keeps your plugins and themes up to date without manual effort, saving time, increasing security and reducing maintenance overhead.
• Visual Regression Testing: Detects any issues caused by updates before they impact live sites, reducing maintenance and giving confidence in every update.
• Rollback Protection: If an issue is detected, Kinsta automatically restores a backup, preventing downtime and ensuring peace of mind with clear reporting on what changed.

“Kinsta Automatic Updates is designed to take the hassle out of managing WordPress updates,” said Daniel Pataki, CTO at Kinsta. “Keeping sites secure and up to date shouldn't be a time-consuming task, and with Kinsta Automatic Updates, our customers can stay protected with minimal effort. By automating plugin and theme updates while ensuring stability through visual regression testing and rollback protection, we're making WordPress maintenance easier and more reliable than ever.”

“Kinsta just eliminated the biggest headache with the WordPress CMS: outdated plugins and theme files,” said Matt Sullivan, founder and CEO at Torro.io. “Security risks, broken sites and surprise downtime? Gone. With Kinsta Automatic Updates, we finally have a foolproof way to keep sites running smoothly without lifting a finger. At Torro Media, we trust Kinsta to keep our clients’ sites fast, secure and worry-free.”

About Kinsta

Founded in 2013, Kinsta is one of the fastest-growing cloud hosting providers in the industry and the first to be powered by Google Cloud Platform. It utilizes GCP's lightning-fast Premium Tier network, and clients can choose from 37+ data centers around the globe.

Kinsta holds the highest G2 score of any managed hosting provider or web hosting provider. In 2022, the company was listed under the “Top 100 Fastest Growing Products.” Trustpilot also has over 880 reviews for Kinsta with an average rating of 4.8/5, and G2 has awarded Best Usability, Easiest Admin, and Users Love Us badges to Kinsta.

Kinsta offers 24/7 support 365 days a year – in ten languages – from its team of expert engineers. With its new Application Hosting and Database Hosting services, plus hosting for WordPress that offers support for complex installations such as Bedrock, reverse-proxy configurations, and tools such as SSH and WP-CLI, its entire platform is built with developers in mind.

For more information about Kinsta and its Application Hosting and Database Hosting solutions, visit kinsta.com or email [e-mail].