New! Bulk Manage Themes, Users, Plugins, and Updates Across All Sites

Managing WordPress at scale has always been a headache for hosting providers and VPS owners. Security, performance, and routine updates across dozens—or even hundreds—of sites can easily eat up hours each week. With the latest cPFence update, that changes. We’ve expanded WP-AutoShield Bulk Tools to 66 powerful actions, giving you one-click control over your entire WordPress fleet.

And the best part? Every bulk action can run per website, per server, or across your full cluster. That flexibility means you decide the scope—surgical precision for one site, sweeping automation for them all.

What’s New?

This release unlocks some of the most requested features, built to give you control at any scale:

• Manage WP Themes
  Bulk install, activate, or delete themes instantly, no matter how many sites you’re managing.

• Manage WP Users
  Create, list, reset, or delete users at scale, with the option to reassign content where needed.

• Rebuilt Plugin Management
  Bulk enable, disable, or uninstall plugins cluster-wide. Completely rebuilt for speed and reliability.

• Refined Update Control
  Decide exactly what gets updated: core, plugins, themes, translations—or everything. Enable or disable auto-updates on a single site, a single server, or your whole cluster.

• Bulk Enable LiteSpeed Heartbeat from WebUI

And beyond these headline additions, cPFence now gives you 66 bulk tools covering everything from backups and malware scanning to LiteSpeed optimization, database tuning, and advanced security hardening.

4 Real-World Use Cases

With cPFence you can apply changes per website, per server, or across your full cluster, giving you the power to solve big headaches in minutes instead of hours. Here are a few ways hosting companies and VPS owners can put these tools to work:

1- Supercharge Cluster Performance

1. Uninstall Cache Plugins

2. Install LiteSpeed Plugin

3. Configure LiteSpeed Plugin

4. Bulk Enable LiteSpeed Heartbeat

5. Optimize All WordPress Databases
6. Bulk Enable Redis Caching in Enhance Settings (found in ApiMachine Bulk Tools)

Run these powerful bulk tools in sequence and you’ll strip away conflicts, drop in LiteSpeed, optimize it, and unlock full heartbeat control. The result? Up to 80% faster performance across your LiteSpeed servers—done in just a few clicks.

2- Improve Security on Newly Migrated Sites

Got a fresh server migrated to Enhance and worried about the state of those WordPress installs? With cPFence you can lock them down and clean them up in minutes, not days.

1. Restore WordPress Core Files
   Re-downloads the exact version each site is running, overwriting any tampered or missing core files—without touching themes, plugins, or uploads.

2. Bulk Update All WordPress Sites
   Update everything in one sweep. Choose core, themes, plugins, translations, or run a full update pass across every site.

3. Bulk Install WordPress Plugin or ZIP
   Deploy your go-to security plugin in a single pass—for example, install All-In-One Security (AIOS) using the slug all-in-one-wp-security-and-firewall.

4. Bulk List WP Users
   Quickly surface unwanted accounts and bulk delete or reset passwords with precision.

5. Bulk Reset All Passwords
   Force-rotate credentials for any role—or all users—cluster-wide. You’ll get an output with new generated passwords ready to share with clients.

6. Scan All WordPress Databases for Malware
   Sweep through every database and catch hidden injections before they spread.

7. Let WP-AutoShield Finish the Job
   The next cron run will auto-apply daily powerful security measures like: disabling file editing, turning off pingbacks and XML-RPC, enforcing secure keys, replacing WP Cron with Enhance’s efficient system, adding brute-force protections, setting file permissions, and hardening installs top to bottom. All on autopilot.

3- Disaster Recovery & Maintenance

When things break, speed matters. With cPFence you can handle disaster recovery and routine maintenance without taking down your clients’ sites.

1. Bulk Backup All WordPress Sites
   Take full backups cluster-wide before making major changes.

2. Bulk Restore All WordPress Sites
   Roll back fast—restore a single WordPress install while leaving the rest untouched.

3. Run Due WP Cron
   Trigger scheduled tasks on demand, keeping sites in sync without waiting.

4. Bulk Update All WordPress Sites
   Selectively re-enable updates for core, plugins, themes, or translations—on specific sites, one server, or your entire cluster.

5. Content & Visibility Controls
   Toggle maintenance mode to shield users during work, or adjust search engine indexing in bulk so new or restored sites don’t accidentally go live before they’re ready.

6. Bulk Switch WP Language
   Need multilingual consistency after a restore? Change WordPress language across dozens of sites instantly.

Disaster recovery doesn’t have to mean downtime. With these tools, you can isolate the problem, restore what’s broken, and keep the rest of your clients online without interruption.

4- Branding & Custom Tweaks

Every hosting company has its own flavor—preferred plugins, support workflows, and rules about what’s allowed on client sites. cPFence lets you enforce that brand identity and apply your custom tweaks across the board with just a few clicks.

1. Install Plugin Bundle
   Installs and activates your curated plugin stack (from /var/log/cpfenceav/wp-plugin-bundle.txt) on every WordPress site. Perfect for rolling out your “must-have” plugins cluster-wide.
   Tip: You can schedule this daily in Settings by enabling autoshield_force_plugin_bundle.

2. Uninstall Blacklisted Plugins
   Automatically scan and remove plugins you don’t allow, based on your blacklist (/var/log/cpfenceav/blacklisted-wp-plugins.txt).
   Tip: Turn on autoshield_plugin_blacklist_removal in Settings to enforce this daily with WP-AutoShield.

3. Install Custom MU Plugin
   Deploy your own must-use plugin from /var/log/cpfenceav/mu-plugin to all sites at once. A quick way to enforce custom rules, tracking, or branding touches.
   Tip: Enable autoshield_custom_mu_plugin in Settings to have this applied automatically.

4. Bulk Create WP User
   Add a dedicated support account across all client sites in one pass—so your team can jump in and help without waiting for credentials.

With these tools, you don’t just manage WordPress at scale—you stamp your brand and policies into every site cluster-wide, consistently and automatically.

Complete List of WP-AutoShield Bulk Tools

• Manage WP Themes

  • Bulk Install Theme or ZIP

  • Bulk Activate Theme by Slug

  • Bulk Delete Theme by Slug

• Manage WP Users

  • Bulk Create WP User

  • Bulk List WP Users

  • Bulk Reset All Passwords

  • Bulk Reset One User Password

  • Bulk Delete WP User (Reassign Content)

  • Bulk Delete WP User (No Reassign)

• Manage WP Plugins (rebuilt for more speed and reliability)

  • Bulk Uninstall Plugin by Slug

  • Bulk Disable Plugin by Slug

  • Bulk Enable Plugin by Slug

  • Uninstall Cache Plugins

  • Uninstall Blacklisted Plugins

  • Install Plugin Bundle

  • Install Custom MU Plugin

  • Uninstall Custom MU Plugin

• Manage Updates & Cron (now with component-level control: core, themes, plugins, translations, all)

  • Bulk Update All WordPress Sites

  • Enable WP Auto Updates

  • Disable WP Auto Updates

  • Disable WP Cron

  • Enable WP Cron

  • Run Due WP Cron

• General & Backups

  • Manually Run WP-AutoShield

  • Bulk Backup All WordPress Sites

  • Bulk Restore All WordPress Sites

  • Export Vulnerability Report

  • Generate WP Sites List

  • Restore WP Core Files

• LiteSpeed Tools

  • Clear LiteSpeed Cache

  • Configure LiteSpeed Plugin

  • Install LiteSpeed Plugin

  • Enable LiteSpeed Redis

  • Enable LiteSpeed Plugin

  • Bulk Enable LiteSpeed Heartbeat

  • Reset LiteSpeed Plugin

  • Enable Cache Login Page

  • Disable Cache Login Page

• Access & Limits

  • Rename WP Admin

  • Disable XML-RPC

  • Enable XML-RPC

  • Enable Login Limit

  • Disable Login Limit

  • Enable WP Captcha

  • Disable WP Captcha

  • Enable Idle Logout

  • Disable Idle Logout

• Content & Visibility

  • Disable Search Engine Indexing

  • Enable Search Engine Indexing

  • Enable Maintenance Mode

  • Disable Maintenance Mode

• Permissions & Hardening

  • Enable Security Headers

  • Disable Security Headers

  • Set Secure Keys

  • Set WP Permissions

  • Disable File Edit

  • Enable File Edit

  • Disable Pingbacks

  • Enable Pingbacks

  • Enable WP Hardening

  • Disable WP Hardening

  • Disable XSS in Posts

  • Enable XSS in Posts

• Database Tools

  • Scan All WordPress Databases for Malware

  • Optimize All WordPress Databases

• Language

  • Bulk Switch WP Language

Still on the fence?

Try the cPFence free trial today and experience how easy it is to transform WordPress security and management on your servers. Once you’ve used cPFence bulk tools at cluster scale, you’ll never want to go back.