WordPress Auto-updates

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A feature plugin to integrate Plugins & Themes automatic updates in WordPress Core.

Author:The WordPress Team (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:5.3
WordPress version tested:5.4.6
Plugin version:0.8.1
Added to WordPress repository:19-02-2020
Last updated:29-10-2020
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
Rating, %:100
Rated by:10
Plugin URI:https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-autoupdates
Total downloads:38 715
Active installs:50+
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UPDATE: This feature plugin was merged in WordPress Core on August 11, 2020, with WordPress 5.6.

The purpose of this plugin is to prepare a future Plugins & Themes automatic updates feature.

Please note that the code of this plugin is not meant to land in WordPress Core “as it is”, its code will be completely reworked for core merge. This plugin is meant to discuss auto-updates principles and user interface.

In 2018, Matt Mullenweg posted 9 projects for Core to focus on in 2019. We didn’t ship as many as hoped, but we made a lot of progress. Plugins and Themes Automatic Updates were one of those 9 projects. This project is now milestoned to WordPress 5.5 and this feature plugin is here to help move towards this achievement.

For full details, see the Feature Plugin proposal published on Make/Core.

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This project is currently driven by Jb Audras & Paul Biron and it’s being developed on GitHub.

Interested in contributing to this plugin? Feel free to join us in #core-auto-updates channel on Make WordPress Slack Team. We’ll host weekly meetings on Slack every Tuesdays at 17:00 UTC.


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