ansible-wordpress-updates

Ansible playbook to update wordpress (major, themes and plugins).

Description

This playbook allows you to update multiple wordpress installations - it automatically scans for all wordpress installations at /var/www.
Befor the update, it will write a backup of the Database to /var/www/update-backups.
For each step (major, plugin and theme updates) it will print the available updates and ask you, if you really want to run the update.
WP-CLI is used to run the updates.

Example:

Tested with:

• Debian 12 Server
• various Wordpress installations

Getting Started

Dependencies

• Linux server with a wordpress installation
• Github - WP-CLI installed on the host (Installation Guide)
• Ansible

Installing

Wordpress-Hosts:

• Install WP-CLI: (Installation Guide from WP_CLI):

  curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar
  php wp-cli.phar --info
  chmod +x wp-cli.phar
  sudo mv wp-cli.phar /usr/local/bin/wp

  Test, if it was successfull:

  wp --info

Ansible server:

• add the role wordpress-updates.yml to your ansible-directory.
• add the server(s) with the wordpress installation(s) in a ansible host-group named [webserver]
• run the playbook

Version History

• 1.0
  • Initial Release

Acknowledgments

• Github - WP-CLI