"A vulnerability in Elementor was just disclosed. Several of the sites I maintain run Elementor. I need to update only Elementor across those sites today."
If you maintain WordPress sites for multiple clients, this scenario happens several times a month. Core updates and other plugin updates can wait for the regular maintenance run, but a specific plugin needs to land urgently.
The trouble is that mainstream maintenance tools don't really offer a UI for "a targeted update across multiple sites, with safety mechanisms intact." Here's how that design problem can be solved.
The limits of an industry-standard "Update All"
Most WordPress maintenance tools have an "Update All" button on each site's dashboard.
