How to update WPML on my sites with Modular DS

To be able to update the WPML plugins from Modular DS, you should follow the following process:

1. Install and register WPML on your site or your client's site.
2. Add the site to your dashboard.
3. Update WPML using the site updater or the global updater.

You only need to do the first two steps once on each website. The third step, you can do each time an update is available and you want to perform it.

Let's look at each of them in more detail:

Register WPML on your site

Registering your site with WPML will allow you to receive automatic updates, which are very important for security, performance, and new features that they develop.

To do this, follow these steps:

1. Start the setup wizard and click 'Get a key for this site' at the registration step. If you already have WPML configured on your site, you can register by going to Plugins → Add New Plugin and clicking on the Commercial tab. Click 'Get a key for this site' to generate a site key in your WPML account.

Registration in the setup wizard

Registration from the Plugins page

This opens your WPML.org account, where you can choose the type of site (production or development) and the number of automatic translation credits you want to assign to the site.

Copy the generated site key and paste it into the setup wizard field to finish registering your site.

After registering, you will receive automatic updates for WPML and its components on the site you just registered, and you can easily download any other available WPML component.

Add the site to your Modular DS control panel

To add a site to Modular DS, you can follow these instructions.

Update WPML using Modular DS

Once you have connected your site to Modular DS, any available updates will appear in the site's dashboard update widget.

There, you can select the WPML plugins and click update.

Update WPML on multiple websites at the same time

If you use WPML on several sites, once you have added them all you can go to the global updater from the “Updates & Manager” section. There you will see the available updates for all your websites.

From there, search for the WPML plugins, select the websites you want to update them on, and run the update on all of them at the same time.

Multisite

If your site is part of a WordPress Multisite installation, keep in mind that updating WPML works at the network level.

This means the update is launched from the main site and applies to the entire Multisite, not to an individual subsite.

Modular DS respects this behavior, so when you update WPML from your dashboard, the operation affects the whole network.

It works the same way as any other plugin in a WordPress Multisite managed with Modular DS.

If you work with this type of installation, we recommend also reviewing how connections and backups behave before you start.

Updated on: 21/10/2026