Do most people allow auto updates for WOrdpress minor updates or possibly issue?

Hi

I’m always very careful with client websites and never normally have auto updates for plugins activated. I manually update them together, then at least I know which plugin breaks a site if it happens.

Same for WordPress version updates.

What are your thoughts and what do most people do with regards to the WordPress version. Do you allow auto updates for the MINOR WordPress updates, and manually do updates for Major upgrades of wordpress ?

Normally I deactivate that also. And I’ve starting to change just to allow the MINOR updates of wordpress and leave the major updates as manual.

I usually have a plugin where I can control these updates etc.

I’m finding to manage a number of clients to updates WOrdpress & plugins manually in order to AVOID breaking a site is better than leaving auto updates for WordPress and all plugins, as this can be disastrous to a live website and then for me to figure out what updated last that caused the site to go down.

So usually I avoid this altogether.

But I’m wondering whether it is SAFE to allow Minor WordPress updates automatically OR that could still cause issues I’m wondering as well.

Anyway, look forward to knowing what others do.

I use backupbuddy for all clients anyway for backups to be done automatically.

And for large ecommerce sites, I backup the site, duplicate to a test server and updates ALL plugins & wordpress on a TEST SITE firstly.

That is usually my strategy for larger clients.

Thanks in advance.

Kristin