WordPress Auto-updates 🤖

UPDATE: This feature plugin was merged in WordPress 5.5 on August 11, 2020 🚀

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

About 🔎

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

To test/contribute, just install this plugin and activate it on your WordPress installation.

The goal of this plugin is to test the UI of the feature, to help decision making. It uses WordPress Core hooks (with potentially some hacks when needed).

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

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 18:00 UTC.

Context ⏳

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.

Contributors ♥️

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this feature plugin!

Documentation 📚

Work in progress.

Screenshots 🖼

Plugins screen - Auto-updates activated

Plugins screen - Available updates

Themes screen - Enable auto-updates

Themes screen - Available update

Updates screen - Available updates

Site health screen - Auto-updates informations for themes and plugins

Email notification example

Changelog 🗓

0.8.1 🍄

May 18, 2020

Fix incorrect admin notice text when auto-updates are enabled for a plugin when JS is not enabled in the browser - #130
Prevent multiple simultaneous requests - #131
Strip plugins/themes that have been deleted from the site options just before they are updated - #132
Copy the plugin's site options to core's site options on self-deactivation - #133
fix typos and docs standards - #134

0.8.0 🐪

May 13, 2020

Self-deactivate the plugin after the functionality has been merged to core - #123
Remove auto-updates options when plugin is uninstalled - #125
Use ES5 in the JS, because the core build tools barf on let and const - #127
More pre-merge cleanup - #124
Add help tabs on update-core, plugins, and themes admin screens - #121
Cleanup - #119
I18n - Remove unnecessary concatenation - #117

0.7.0 🦢

May 6, 2020

PHPCBF fixes - #114
Remove constants from the feature plugin - #112
Various i18n fixes/optimizations - #109
Simplifies Ajax on both the JS and PHP sides - #103

0.6.0 🦋

April 22, 2020

Add Ajax to Plugin and Themes Screen - #61
Accessibility: Communicate AJAX enabling/disabling changes to screen readers - #85
Add Better Handling to Ajax Errors - #90
Prevent CSS from being enqueued on sub-site plugins & themes screens in multisite - #91

0.5.1 🦒

April 16, 2020

Add the plugin version when enqueueing styles, for cache busting - #79

0.5.0 🦚

April 15, 2020

Replace Disable strings with Disable auto-updates - #78
Update confirmation message wording - #77
Remove Automatic Updates column from the Network Admin > Sites > Edit > Themes screen - #76
Replace "Enable" string with "Enable auto-updates" - #75
Remove dashicons from the UI - #74
Fix documentation and comment standards - #73
Remove green and red colors on texts and links - #70
Don't display the Enable/Disable link in the Theme Details modal on a subsite in multisite - #68
Documentation: Improve DocBlocks - #62
I18n - Merge with similar string - #60
Add filters and constant to allow developers to disable plugins and themes autoupdate email notifications - #57
Switch disable link to red on Multisite Themes Screen - #54
Wrong kick off year in readme.txt - #42

0.4.1 🍺

April 2, 2020

Network > Sites > Edit > Themes screen doesn’t have the Autoupdates column - #50

0.4.0 🌹

March 30, 2020

This release brings full support for Themes auto-updates.

It also changes the plugin structure to allow self deactivation when the feature gets merged into WordPress Core.

Please note: the development repository was also migrated from @audrasjb’s personal GitHub account to WordPress.org official GitHub account.

Other changes:

Change plugin structure to ensure it can self-deactivate when the feature is merged into Core - #37
Handle both themes and plugins email notifications - #36
i18n: Merge similar translation strings - #35
Add and populate Automatic updates column, add and handle enable/disable auto-updates bulk actions to the multisite themes list table - #33
Avoid duplicate Updating… dialog - #32

0.3.0 🦉

March 16, 2020

Add functions to handle plugins updates notification emails - #54
Remove update time text after manual update - #43
Ensure "Automatic Updates" column is not added if no content would be output in the column - #57
Specific messages for delayed or disabled cron events - #58
Prevent mis-match between count in Auto-updates Enabled view and the number of plugins displayed for that view by applying 'all_plugins' filter before computing that count. - #59

0.2.1 🐜

March 11, 2020

Prevent "PHP Notice: Undefined index: plugin_status" when adding the autoupdates_column - #47
Add plugin_status query arg to the enable/disable links in the Automatic Updates column - #48

0.2.0 🐝

March 6, 2020

Remove auto-updates column from mustuse and dropins screens - #39
Ensure the the enable/disable bulk actions appear in the dropdown and are handled in multisite - #38
Remove dashicon from "Enable" text in plugins auto-updates column - #36
Replace "Automatic Updates" with "Auto-updates" in filters - #35
Display only filters with at least one available plugin - #33
Remove setting from site option when deleting plugin - #32
Populate site health with plugins auto-updates informations - #24
In multisite, only add the "Automatic Updates" column on the plugins-network screen - #21
Add auto-update-enabled and auto-update-disabled views on the plugins screen - #18

0.1.5 🐣

February 26, 2020

Fix fatal error on PHP 7+
Fix legacy notice classes
Various tiny enhancements
Replace required PHP version

0.1.4 👻