WordPress 5.5 AutoUpdate schedule

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I have not found a way to change the frequency that is why I use WP-CLI for updating WordPress, plugins, themes and language files. Anyway I prefer to do it scheduled on a defined time e.g. nightly.

With a Cronjob you can execute as many times a day you want. I use this commands:

cd /folderToWordpressInstallation 
    && wp core update && wp plugin update --all 
    && wp theme update --all 
    && wp language core update 
    && wp language plugin update --all 
    && wp language theme update --all

wp command must be available on your web hosting. It can be downloaded here https://wp-cli.org/. Either use /path/wp or add path to wp command to your PATH variable within hosting environment. Then path prefix is not needed.

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