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WP Auto Updater

WP Auto Updater plugin enables automatic updates of WordPress Core, Themes, Plugins and Translations. Version control of WordPress Core makes automati …

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Tested up to WordPress 7.0
Current version1.7.4
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.0
Minimum stackWP 5.9 · PHP 7.4
Directory statusactive
Last directory update4 Jun 20265mo ago
Active installations7K+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.6 / 5 from 10 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records WP Auto Updater version 1.7.4 as active, updated 5mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.0.

Overview

About this plugin

WP Auto Updater plugin enables automatic updates of WordPress Core, Themes, Plugins and Translations. Version control of WordPress Core makes automatic update more safely.

Features

  • Automatically update WordPress Core
  • Automatically updates Themes, Plugins and Translations
  • Set up a schedule automatic updates
  • Disable automatic updating of each Themes and Plugins
  • Record update history
  • Update notification

Important: before updating, please back up your database and files.

5 later, The auto-updates have been implemented for the WordPress Core, as well as themes and plugins. If the auto-updates are enabled, the settings for WordPress Core will take priority over WP Auto Updater plugin. This will result in issues such as no updates at all, or not being updated at the scheduled update date and time.

To properly control updates, disable all auto-updates include themes and plugins before enable WP Auto Updater plugin. See Plugin and themes auto-updates

Auto Update Scenario

First of all, we will make an Auto Update Scenario which decide the policy of WordPress automatic updates.

You can choose from the following five automatic updates of WordPress Core.

  • Minor Version Update
  • Major Version Update
  • Minor Only Version Update
  • Previous Generation Version Update
  • Manual Update

Minor Version Update

Minor Version Update enable minor updates. Minor updates is default behavior in WordPress for security updates. 2 …

Major Version Update

Major Version Update enable major updates. 9 …

Minor Only Version Update

0. It make sense to take a “skip” approach to avoid introducing new vulnerabilities into the latest major version release.

Update the WordPress Core version (eg. 1 or later) with security fixed. 0.

0 …

Previous Generation Version Update

Previous Generation Version Update enable major updates and minor updates except the latest major version. It make sense to take a “wait and see” approach to ensure the latest major version release is stable before.

z. z. It will be always automatically updated to the previous generation WordPress Core version with probably security fixed.

Manual Update

Manual Update disable automatic updates. You update WordPress Core manually on the Dashboard Updates Screen.

Automatic updates and manual updates are available for themes, plugins and Translations.

It is also possible to disable automatic updating of each Themes and Plugins.

Scheduled automatic updates

Next we will set up a schedule for automatic updates.

The update interval can be selected from the following four.

  • Twice Daily (12 hours interval)
  • Daily
  • Weekly
  • Monthly

You can also set the day, the day of the week, the hour and the minute of the Update Date.

At the time of automatic update, Automatically updates WordPress Core, Themes, Plugins and Translations to be updated.

Support

If you have any trouble, you can use the forums or report bugs.

  • Forum: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-auto-updater/
  • Issues: https://github.com/thingsym/wp-auto-updater/issues

Contribution

Small patches and bug reports can be submitted a issue tracker in Github. Forking on Github is another good way. You can send a pull request.

Translating a plugin takes a lot of time, effort, and patience. I really appreciate the hard work from these contributors.

If you have created or updated your own language pack, you can send gettext PO and MO files to author. I can bundle it into plugin.

  • VCS – GitHub
  • Homepage – WordPress Plugin
  • Translate WP Auto Updater into your language.

You can also contribute by answering issues on the forums.

  • Forum: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-auto-updater/
  • Issues: https://github.com/thingsym/wp-auto-updater/issues

Contribute guidlines

If you would like to contribute, here are some notes and guidlines.

  • All development happens on the develop branch, so it is always the most up-to-date
  • The master branch only contains tagged releases
  • If you are going to be submitting a pull request, please submit your pull request to the develop branch
  • See about forking and pull requests

Test Matrix

For operation compatibility between PHP version and WordPress version, see below Github Actions.

WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • auto update
  • automatic updates
  • background updates
  • core updates
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 7.0

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 7.0.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.0
Minimum requirementsWordPress 5.9 · PHP 7.4
Update activity4 Jun 20265mo ago

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