What is Central on Faaaster?

Central brings together the plugins of all your sites in a single list, and lets you activate, deactivate or update them on several sites at once. You can open it from the left-hand menu, in the Organization section.

The benefit: instead of opening ten sites to deactivate the same vulnerable plugin, you do it once from Central.

Contents

• What the list shows
• Bulk actions
• The main use case: a vulnerable plugin

What the list shows

Central works by plugin, not by site. Each row shows:

• Name — the plugin's name;
• Number of sites — the sites it's installed on;
• Vulnerabilities — an icon flags a vulnerable plugin;
• Updates — the number of sites where an update is available, out of the total number of sites.

A search lets you find a plugin; if none matches, the list shows "No plugin found".

Bulk actions

Three actions are available, under the Bulk actions label:

• Activate
• Deactivate
• Update

They apply to the plugins you've checked in the list, on every site where they're installed. For a single plugin, the ⋯ menu at the end of its row offers the same actions, plus Details, which lists its sites.

Faaaster shows the progress site by site, then the number of successes and failures: a plugin that fails on one site is flagged, without blocking the others.

The main use case: a vulnerable plugin

This is what Central exists for.

1. Open Central from the left-hand menu.
2. Find the plugin flagged as vulnerable.
3. The Number of sites column immediately tells you how widespread the problem is.
4. In its row's ⋯ menu, run Update — or Deactivate if no fix is available yet.

Before a bulk update, keep in mind that it applies to live production sites. Daily backups have you covered, but testing on a single site first is still best practice.

Central only covers plugins. Neither themes nor WordPress core are listed there: for those, use the WordPress tab of each site.

Updated on: 10/03/2026