Upgrade 100s of Sites from One Dashboard
One of the most popular reasons for using mySites.guru is being able to upgrade Joomla and WordPress core across all your sites without logging into each one individually. Here’s how the process works: back up, upgrade, verify.
After logging in, the left menu shows how many Core Updates are needed. In this example, 15 sites need a core update (and 59 plugins/extensions, but we’ll focus on core for now).
Go to the Scheduled Backups page and open the schedules tab. For Joomla, mySites.guru uses Akeeba Backup (free or paid, both work). You can back up one site at a time or click “Start Backup Of All Sites” to queue them all at once.
Backups are queued and run in the background - you don’t need to stay on the page. Once you’re happy everything is backed up, move to the upgrades. (Periodically test your restores too - an untested backup is just a file that makes you feel better.)
Open the “Mass Upgrade Sites” tool. It fetches available upgrade paths from your sites, which takes a few seconds. Select individual sites or click “Select All,” then hit the green button.
Each upgrade is queued in the background and you’re taken to the status page to watch progress. You can do small batches or select everything - that’s your call based on how comfortable you are with the risk.
Once upgrades are done, run a new backup and start a fresh audit to verify everything is healthy. You can also remove leftover fluff files from Joomla automatically.
The same process works for WordPress sites not using WordPress’s built-in auto-updates. For a full walkthrough focused on WordPress, see the guide to bulk updating WordPress sites.
Team tip: If you’d rather delegate this to someone else, you can add unlimited team members to your mySites.guru account and assign them the upgrade task.
Bulk updates are covered in detail in our guide to managing updates at scale.
