Description

Advanced Automatic Updates adds extra options to WordPress’ built-in Automatic Updates feature. On top of security updates, it also supports installing major releases, plugins, themes, or even regular SVN checkouts!

If you’re working on a WordPress Multisite install, it will properly restrict the options page to your Network Admin.

While this will be useful for the vast majority of sites, please exercise caution, particularly if you have any custom themes or plugins running on your site.

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Installation

The Good Way

In your WordPress Admin, go to the Add New Plugins page
Search for: advanced automatic updates
Advanced Automatic Updates should be the first result. Click the Install link.

The Old Way

Upload the plugin to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

The Living-On-The-Edge Way

(Please don’t do this in production, you will almost certainly break something!)

Checkout the current development version from https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/automatic-updater/trunk/
Subscribe to the RSS feed to be notified of changes

FAQ

Why is the debug email going to the admin email address, instead of the override email address?: The debug email doesn’t provide a filter to allow changing the email address it’s being sent to. This will hopefully change in a future release of WordPress, you can follow progress in this ticket.

Reviews

inakijm December 30, 2020

Te despreocupas de estar entrando continuamente al blog para actualizar los plugins. Se actualizan solos. Muy recomendable.

al3x22 May 5, 2020

This is one of my favorite plugins. It is very simple and easy to use. I can only recommend it!

martonlente September 25, 2019

After I couldn't get the popular Easy Updates Manager plugin working, I looked for an alternative, and then found Advanced Automatic Updates. The plugin perfectly works, and even updates premium themes' plugins (not only WordPress.org plugins). Sadly the email update notifications doesn't work just yet, and having a log of completed updates would also be useful.

vermaakpetrus September 14, 2019

It worked beautifully, so happy with this!!

kotyarashop September 5, 2019

Works

suissforex April 30, 2019

This plugin doesn't work!! this is the third time I find all my plugins need updates

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Contributors & Developers

“Advanced Automatic Updates” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Gary Pendergast

“Advanced Automatic Updates” has been translated into 9 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “Advanced Automatic Updates” into your language.

Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

1.0.2

ADDED: Strictly disallow activation on versions of WordPress earlier than 3.7
CHANGED: Update filter name for redirecting debug emails (only available in WordPress 3.8+)

1.0.1

CHANGED: Fresh installs now disable Major updates by default, to match Core behaviour
UPDATED: German (de_DE) translation. Props Alexander Pfabel
UPDATED: Japanese (日本語) (ja) translation. Props Tai
UPDATED: Italian (it_IT) translation. Props Stefano Giolo
UPDATED: Dutch (nl_NL) translation.
FIXED: Fresh installs had Minor updates disabled

1.0

With the release of WordPress 3.7, Automatic Updater is now know as Advanced Automatic Updates!

ADDED: Options to enable Major and Minor Core updates
ADDED: Warning in wp-admin when AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED is set
ADDED: Turkish (tr_TR) translation. Props Tufan Tunç
CHANGED: Debug Email option now allows enabling only for dev upgrades (default)
UPDATED: Language POT file
FIXED: PHP notice in PHP 5.4+ with WP_DEBUG enabled

0.9.1

UPDATED: Language POT file
UPDATED: German (de_DE) translation. Props Alexander Pfabel
UPDATED: Dutch (nl_NL) translation.
FIXED: If the svn up output was empty, don’t send an update email
FIXED: Removed pass-by-reference, it’s too old school for @wonderboymusic
FIXED: The settings link was incorrect in Multisite

0.9

ADDED: Warning when Better WP Security is hiding update info
ADDED: Warning when the user can’t update directly, but hasn’t defined S/FTP login details
ADDED: AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED wp-config option, for forcing updates to never happen
ADDED: Sanity check to make sure the plugin isn’t accessed directly
CHANGED: For nightly build upgrade notification emails, include the build numbers
UPDATED: Tested up to WordPress 3.6
FIXED: Don’t send a notification email if the core upgrade didn’t change versions (ie, a nightly build with no changes)
FIXED: Settings page CSS wasn’t loading if the plugin was installed in a symlink directory
FIXED: Themes and plugins in non-writeable directories weren’t being highlighted correctly on the settings page
FIXED: Core upgrade retry emails were not showing the correct retry limit
FIXED: Nightly core upgrades can sometimes repeat more than once every 24 hours

0.8.5

FIXED: Disable email notifications option was being set, but not showing up as set
FIXED: Only write to the options table when options have actually change
FIXED: Funky email layout if svn up’ing multiple things in one go
FIXED: Possible PHP error caused by including some core class definitions multiple times

0.8.4

ADDED: A link to the SVN log browser for Core, when it updates
ADDED: Japanese (日本語) (ja) translation. Props Tai
UPDATED: Norwegian Bokmål (nb_NO) translation. Props Bjørn Johansen

0.8.3

FIXED: Bug preventing normal WordPress Core updates from occurring
FIXED: Theme and Plugin updates not properly skipping those marked for SVN updates

0.8.2

FIXED: SVN updates of WordPress core were not being triggered
FIXED: Particularly large SVN updates could cause notification email corruption
UPDATED: Dutch (nl_NL) translation.
UPDATED: German (de_DE) translation. Props Alexander Pfabel

0.8.1

UPDATED: Language POT file
FIXED: Some unnecessary characters appearing in Admin when SVN isn’t being used
FIXED: Sanity checking of normal updates marked for SVN updates

0.8

ADDED: SVN support for plugins and themes
ADDED: Retry limits, so broken updates won’t keep trying to install
ADDED: Option to only receive SVN update emails if something went wrong
FIXED: Some HTML tags in debug messages were being incorrectly stripped
FIXED: Don’t automatically enable Core updates on installs that seem to be coming from a repo

0.7.2

ADDED: WordPress MultiSite support
UPDATED: German (de_DE) translation. Props Alexander Pfabel
FIXED: Now works properly if installed in a symlink directory

0.7.1

UPDATED: Italian (it_IT) translation. Props Stefano Giolo
UPDATED: Dutch (nl_NL) translation.
FIXED: Override email setting wasn’t saving correctly

0.7

ADDED: Option to override where the update email is sent
ADDED: ‘auto_updater_notification_email_address’ filter, for the update notification email address
ADDED: Reminder in the notification email for users to mark the plugins/themes compatible
ADDED: Option to disable notification emails
CHANGED: Notification emails now send as HTML emails (for greater flexibility of information to include)
UPDATED: Language POT file
FIXED: Some strings were formatted incorrectly for translation
FIXED: Escape all strings appropriately before displaying
FIXED: SVN updates would cause hourly emails, regardless of an update occurring or not

0.6.3

ADDED: Taiwan Traditional Chinese (Taiwan 正體中文) (zh_TW) translation. Props Pseric
ADDED: Italian (it_IT) translation. Props Stefano Giolo.

0.6.2

UPDATED: Norwegian Bokmål (nb_NO) translation. Props Bjørn Johansen

0.6.1

UPDATED: German (de_DE) translation. Props Alexander Pfabel

0.6

ADDED: Support for nightly builds
ADDED: Dutch (nl_NL) translation.
UPDATED: Language POT file

0.5

ADDED: SVN support for core – if you’re running WordPress from SVN, you now have the option to keep it up-to-date!
ADDED: Norwegian Bokmål (nb_NO) translation. Props Bjørn Johansen
ADDED: Link to the Settings page from the Plugin list
UPDATED: Language POT file

0.4.1

FIXED: Stop trying to update plugins and themes that are already updated

0.4

ADDED: German (de_DE) translation. Props Alexander Pfabel
ADDED: Version check on activation, for compatibility
UPDATED: Language POT file
FIXED: Typo in the Settings page
FIXED: Debug information in the notification email now has HTML tags stripped out
FIXED: Core version check was a little too strong, and could cause updates to be missed. Relaxed a little
FIXED: Checking to see if WordPress has found any updates will now occur much more frequently

0.3.2

ADDED: Language file for translators
FIXED: Translations should load properly now
FIXED: Don’t try to update WordPress to the same version (I’m mostly certain it’s actually fixed this time)
FIXED: Minor formatting change to the notification emails

0.3.1

FIXED: Don’t try to update WordPress to the same version (harmless, but unnecessary)
FIXED: A PHP warning in the Settings page
FIXED: A couple of typos

0.3

ADDED: Extra update checks, updates will now occur as soon as is humanly possible
ADDED: Much nicer notification emails when upgrades occur
ADDED: Option to display debug information in the notification email
FIXED: Use ouput buffering to ensure nothing is printed during upgrades

0.2

ADDED: Some useful filters and actions. See the Documentation for details
FIXED: s/automattic/automatic/g
FIXED: Support forums link

0.1

Initial release

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