How to Enable Automatic Background Updates for WordPress Core
The following process works with all WordPress versions after version 3.7. There are several other options for enabling automatic background updates for WordPress including but not limited to: utilizing Jetpack with WordPress.com and utilizing WordPress plugins.
For a refresher on editing files with vim see: New User Tutorial: Overview of the Vim Text Editor
Navigate to your root WordPress directory (in this case: /home/example/public_html) and edit the wp-config.php file:
vim wp-config.php
or
vim /home/example/public_html/wp-config.php
Add the following to the file:
define( ‘WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE’, true );
In this case, I added the above code just above:
Then exit and save the file with the command
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