Ansible Playbook: Update Wordpress installations

Table of Contents

Ansible playbook to update wordpress (major, themes and plugins)

Description
#

This playbook allows you to update multiple wordpress installations - it automatically scans for all wordpress installations at /var/www.
Befor the update, it will write a backup of the Database to /var/www/update-backups.
For each step (major, plugin and theme updates) it will print the available updates and ask you, if you really want to run the update.
WP-CLI is used to run the updates.

Example:

Tested with:

Debian 12 Server
various Wordpress installations

Getting Started
#

Dependencies
#

Linux server with a wordpress installation
Github - WP-CLI installed on the host (Installation Guide)
Ansible

Installing
#

Wordpress-Hosts:
#

Install WP-CLI: (Installation Guide from WP_CLI):

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar
php wp-cli.phar --info
chmod +x wp-cli.phar
sudo mv wp-cli.phar /usr/local/bin/wp

Test, if it was successfull:

wp --info

Ansible server:
#

add the role wordpress-updates.yml to your ansible-directory.
add the server(s) with the wordpress installation(s) in a ansible host-group named [webserver]
run the playbook