Automatically Update Some Extensions in Joomla 🛠 Maintenance Monday Live Stream
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00:00 Introduction to Maintenance Monday
00:29 Today's Tip: Auto-Updating Joomla Extensions
01:21 Regular Labs Extensions and Frequent Updates
02:16 Using myJoomla.com(mysites.guru) for Auto Updates
02:54 Managing Multiple Sites with myJoomla
03:22 Auto Apply Update: How It Works
04:20 Supported Extensions for Auto Updates
04:44 Backup Your Site Before Auto Updates
05:30 Example: Auto Update Success Email
05:49 Example: Auto Update Failure Notification
06:14 Benefits of Auto Updates for Time Management
06:56 Closing Remarks and Future Possibilities
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Today on a Maintenance Monday we're going to look at auto-updating some of your Joomla extensions. This is not something that's just available through free extensions but it may help you to manage your sites a little easier.
I use a lot of Regular Labs Extensions. That's Peter Van Weston's site. When Peter fixes, adjusts or makes changes to his extensions, he puts them out right away, he doesn't store them up. Consequently, if you're using a lot of his extensions on your sites, you might constantly get that notification that there's an update that's needed for your site.
His is one of the group of extensions that can be auto-updated through Phil Taylor's site myJoomla.com. It is well worth the price, not only for this auto update feature but also for the myriad of other features.
Here we are in the basicjoomla.com site. I have downgraded some of the Regular Labs Extensions that I have on the site here, and you'll see that there's updates required.
I'm going to show you how my basic Joomla site looks on myJoomla.com. You'll see down here, I'm currently managing 31 sites. If we look under Update, we’ll see here that it shows there are four extensions that need to be updated on the basicjoomla.com site. As we scroll down a bit further we can see this section here "Auto Apply Update When Available."
So, what happens is that each day when myJoomla.com is looking at your Joomla sites for any extensions that need to be updated, there's a number here that they closely monitor, we can see they're happy with the quality of the developer, and so they offer to auto apply upgrades for that.
So it's Akeeba Backup Core, and I have a tutorial on how to backup your site with Akeeba Backup, and the Core is free or the Professional version, Akeeba Admin Tools Core/Professional, JCE Editor, All Extensions From Regular Labs, Install From Web - Official Joomla Supported Plugin, and Weblinks Extension Package, which is an Official Joomla Supported Extension. You could turn on Auto Apply Update for all these extensions just by clicking on this green button, or you could just Auto Apply some of them.
Now I just want to point out that at the bottom here Phil says, "Make sure that you have a backup of your site." That is very important. Make sure that if you're going to use this feature you have auto backup set up for however you're backing up your website, because if you're going to be Auto Applying things you don't want to be stuck going back to something that's super old. Keep your backups fresh!
Now I also want to show you this. When you do apply this and it does Auto Apply or try to Auto Apply an update to your extensions, you will get an email telling you that's taking place. Here's an example email for my wife's piano teaching site that myJoomla has successfully auto-upgraded Regular Labs - Better Preview. It gives me a little email to let me know. Now if I want when I get that email, I can just click here, go check out the website, and make sure it's still up, that everything's good.
Over here is an example of an email when myJoomla tried to auto update Better Preview on my friend's SmartDriveTest.com. This time it wasn't successful and so I got an email notifying me about that. Then I could go and check out and see why or see if something's up with that site. And it reminds you that it's not going to keep trying over and over again with an extension that there's some problem with.
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