{"id":3932,"date":"2026-03-31T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/update-a-plugin-in-wordpress\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:00:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:00:38","slug":"update-a-plugin-in-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"kb_article","link":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/update-a-plugin-in-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Update a Plugin in WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress shows available plugin updates in the dashboard and on the plugins screen.<\/p>\n<p>To update a plugin:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Log in to your WordPress admin area.<\/li>\n<li>Go to <strong>Dashboard<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>Updates<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Tick the plugin you want to update.<\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>Update Plugins<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>You can also update plugins from <strong>Plugins<\/strong> by selecting <strong>update now<\/strong> beside the relevant plugin.<\/p>\n<p>Before updating important plugins, especially on ecommerce or membership websites, make sure you have a recent backup. If the plugin is part of a paid product, check that your licence is active before updating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress shows available plugin updates in the dashboard and on the plugins screen. To update a plugin: Log in to your WordPress admin area.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","kb_category":[37],"class_list":["post-3932","kb_article","type-kb_article","status-publish","hentry","kb_category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb_article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4065,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3932\/revisions\/4065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_category?post=3932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}