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July was a big month for automation. Twenty features shipped. The Bulk Operations suite now covers themes, plugins, users, cron jobs, firewall rules, caching, and authentication from a single interface. Pressable MCP added tools for managing collaborators and revoking access account-wide. Reporting picked up a PDF export, historical charts, and new API endpoints, and site security got a self-serve HSTS interface and file editing controls.
Two new operations, Install Themes and Remove Themes, let you batch-deploy or purge theme files across your entire site portfolio.
Install Themes fetches, installs, and activates the latest version of a WordPress.org directory theme by folder slug across selected sites.
Remove Themes permanently deletes specified theme files across multiple sites using comma or space-delimited slugs.
The system automatically prevents deletion of a site’s currently active theme and bypasses inactive or offline environments.
Installation and removal run asynchronously, with initial job requests and skip states logged per row in the Bulk Operations history.
How to get started: Log in to MyPressable, go to Tools > Bulk Operations, select your theme utility, enter the slug or slugs, choose your target sites, and run the batch.
Three new utilities, Install Plugins, Activate Plugins, and Deactivate Plugins, bring the same batch approach to plugin management.
Install Plugins fetches, installs, and activates single or multiple plugins by directory slug, with duplicate checks that skip sites where the plugin is already present.
Activate Plugins toggles pre-existing, inactive plugins to active across targeted sites without touching site files.
Deactivate Plugins safely deactivates specific plugins across multiple sites at once, useful during troubleshooting or security incidents, while preserving the underlying plugin files.
Operations are restricted to active site environments, with individual results, skips, and errors logged per row.
How to get started: Log in to MyPressable, go to Tools > Bulk Operations, select your plugin utility, enter the target slugs, choose your sites, and run the batch.
Seven new tools landed in one release: Create WordPress User, Reset WordPress User Password, Reset WordPress Owner Password, Create Cron Job, Delete Cron Job, Activate Theme, and Refresh Firewall Rules.
Create WordPress User provisions accounts in batch with unified username and email mapping and role selection (Administrator, Editor, Author, and so on).
Reset WordPress User Password rotates credentials for a specific account across target properties using User ID, email, or login name, generating secure randomized passwords.
Reset WordPress Owner Password targets and rotates administrative credentials for primary site owner accounts across selected properties automatically.
Create Cron Job schedules asynchronous platform cron tasks with interval options (hourly, daily, bi-daily, weekly) and custom WP-CLI or server commands.
Delete Cron Job removes matching scheduled tasks across multiple sites based on exact command-string comparison.
Activate Theme sequentially activates pre-installed themes across targeted properties by folder slug.
Refresh Firewall Rules re-syncs site security configurations against upstream provider rulesets in a single pass.
Inactive, offline, or non-applicable sites are bypassed automatically, and results are logged per row in the Bulk Operations history.
How to get started: Log in to MyPressable, go to Tools > Bulk Operations, select your utility, configure your parameters, and run the batch.
A new Toggle APM option lets you start or stop diagnostic trace captures across multiple environments at once.
Site targeting supports individual selection, your entire active portfolio, or a CSV upload of site IDs.
Enabling APM starts a standardized 30-minute diagnostic trace capture per site before switching off automatically. Disabling it through the bulk menu stops the capture immediately.
The batch engine skips inactive sites and any properties already matching your target tracking state.
The selection screen automatically filters out properties where your profile lacks explicit management permissions.
How to get started: Log in to MyPressable, go to Tools > Bulk Operations, select Toggle APM, choose your target status, and pick your batch.
A new Purge CDN Cache option replaces manual, single-site edge cache flushes with one batch process.
Site selection supports individual checkboxes, your full portfolio, or a CSV list of site IDs.
Rate-limiting rules, such as a property being cleared within the last 60 seconds, are detected and surfaced with a clear inline warning instead of a generic failure message.
Properties where your account lacks verified administrative permissions are filtered out of the selection automatically.
How to get started: Log in to MyPressable, go to Tools > Bulk Operations, select Purge CDN Cache, choose your target sites, and run the batch.
A new Delete Site operation in the Bulk Operations menu lets authorized account holders and administrators decommission multiple site environments in a single background run, with confirmation gates built in given how permanent the action is.
The command purges site files, databases, and platform configurations in one batch run and automatically releases any active add-on licenses.
A double-blind confirmation requires typing the literal string DELETE on both the client and server side before the request goes through.
Site selection is scoped to properties you own or hold delete-site privileges on, and limited to sites in live, disabled, or failed-restore states.
Properties with active dependencies, such as a domain-level email order, or an in-progress removal are skipped and logged automatically without stopping the rest of the batch.
Deletions are permanent and processed independently per site. Bulk restoration is intentionally excluded to protect data integrity.
How to get started: Log in to MyPressable, go to Tools > Bulk Operations, select Delete Site, choose eligible properties, complete the typed confirmation prompt, and run the batch.
Pressable MCP gained 11 new tools for managing collaborators. Your connected AI assistant can now audit account access and update user permissions across multiple sites using simple prompts.
Lookup tools let you search, list, count, and summarize collaborator access across your entire account, including default team members assigned to new sites.
Batch update tools add, remove, or modify site collaborators across groups of users in a single request.
Targeted role management grants or revokes specific roles for groups of collaborators without touching their other active permissions.
Every update returns a detailed status report per user, so you can confirm changes or see why one was skipped.
How to get started: Connect your AI tool to MyPressable through Settings > MCP Authentication, then ask your assistant to audit or manage collaborators.
Core site metadata now surfaces creator details across MyPressable, the REST API, and MCP. Account report exports are no longer needed to verify who provisioned a site.
A new Created By field appears in the Site Information block on the site Overview page, showing the user’s display name or primary email.
The single-site API endpoint now returns creator name and email alongside core environment data.
The Pressable MCP server schema exposes creator fields as well, letting connected AI assistants query and report site creation origins.
For sites created before September 2025, the field returns an empty value rather than defaulting to the current account owner, preserving historical accuracy.
How to get started: Log in to MyPressable, select a site, and check the Site Information card on the Overview page. For programmatic access, update your API integration or query your connected MCP assistant.
Direct dashboard toggles now replace manual configuration file edits for file editing and modification restrictions.
A new File Editing field sits inside the WordPress Details block on the site Overview page.
Toggle switches disable the native admin file editor and block core, plugin, and theme installs, updates, or deletions.
Changes apply immediately to the live environment.
Every toggle interaction is logged to the site’s Activity log for a clear audit trail.
Any profile with verified administrative permissions on the site can access the controls.
How to get started: Log in to MyPressable, select your site, open the Overview page, and adjust the modification options in the WordPress Details area.
Two new read-only endpoints expose real-time backup restoration progress, alongside a new multisite identification field.
GET /v1/sites/<site_id>/restores returns a paginated, chronological list of every restore run on a site, newest first.
GET /v1/sites/<site_id>/restores/<restore_id> returns status and logs for a single restore event.
Restore queries return a status string (in_progress, completed, or failed) with a logMessages array of sequential runtime lines.
Status tracking relies on polling the newest entry in the list endpoint rather than webhooks.
The v2 site details payload now includes a multisiteSupport boolean flag for consistent network-type verification across API versions.
The new endpoints require active sites_read or sites_edit scopes on your existing API token.
How to get started: Review the response formats and status values in the API documentation, and update your scripts to use the new v1 endpoints and v2 fields.
A native PDF export lets you compile mobile and desktop speed diagnostics for your entire portfolio into one document.
A Download PDF button lives inside the existing Site Performance Report card.
Clicking it triggers a background compilation that bundles all active sites and delivers the final PDF by email.
Each site’s breakdown includes side-by-side desktop and mobile metrics across four performance areas, all six Core Web Vitals, and active theme and plugin manifests.
Sites missing speed report history are grouped into a dedicated appendix section rather than excluded from the document.
How to get started: Log in to MyPressable, open the Reports dashboard, and click Download PDF on the Site Performance Report card.
A stable 1.0 release of our open-source DDEV integration automates data and media sync between local environments and your sites.
ddev pull pressable downloads database instances and media attachments and runs local web address find-and-replace automatically.
ddev push pressable deploys local databases and media assets to staging, restoring staging URLs and flushing cache on completion.
--skip-files and --skip-db flags let you sync only the data layer or only file uploads.
The add-on uses each site’s built-in SSH infrastructure, removing the need for control panel API tokens or configuration changes.
Push is restricted to non-production staging properties, with a required command-line confirmation to prevent accidental live data overwrites.
How to get started: In your local terminal, initialize your project as a WordPress project type and run ddev add-on get pressable/ddev-pressable. Add your site’s SSH username to your local environment variables to start syncing.
Suzanne leads Product Marketing at Pressable, where she focuses on translating complex hosting technology into clear, empowering solutions for creators and businesses. Driven by a passion for the WordPress community, she strives to show how the right platform can be a catalyst for growth and innovation. Suzanne believes that great marketing starts with authentic storytelling and making high-performance tech feel accessible to everyone. She lives in the Metro Atlanta area with her two children and two cats. When she’s not scaling the Pressable brand, you’ll find her navigating the local trails or enjoying the vibrant energy of the South.
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