Comments on: WordPress Upgrade Notifications by Email

By: Maskil

Maskil — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:40:57 +0000

Here’s another plugin offering similar functionality:

Lions Go Roar – Update Notifier
http://lionsgoroar.co.uk/wordpress-plugins/update-notifier/

I haven’t seen the need yet, as I’m working in my WP Dashboard at least once a day, but it’s nice to know developers are thinking along these lines.

By: jon

jon — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:00:52 +0000

Only just noticed this post today. I released an WordPress update notifier plugin myself two days ago… http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/update-notifier/

I’m planning on including (optional, you must opt-in) notification for plugin (and themes too, I guess) updates as well.

By: mercime

mercime — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:38:37 +0000

I remember way back 2.2 or 2.3 where there was a plugin – Upgrade Pre-flight Check – which checked readiness of theme and plugins currently used for issues that may cause problems during upgrading to latest WP version and issued warnings … something like that could be included in WP upgrade script. Therefore, user has informed options – find a new plugin/theme or tweak the plugin/theme. If I code this, it would take me at least a year

By: Greyholme

Greyholme — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:16:06 +0000

An auto-upgrader would be nice. Especially if it went through the plugins and updated those as well. Maybe its just me, but when I see the little numbers next to plugins I feel burdened to update all the plugins on all my blogs. Its tedious

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:46:59 +0000

The idea of automatic upgrade really doesn’t sit well with me. While I appreciate the intent, and there certainly are a lot of people out there with older installs of WordPress just begging to be hacked, I just can’t get over my wariness of giving a script my full ftp credentials.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:17:10 +0000

Yeah that’s ok – I didn’t mean there was a problem with your plugin. I simply meant that it’s *a* shame that the 2 can’t work together (not shame on your plugin!).

By: Donncha

Donncha — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:50:52 +0000

Changing the version number isn’t a real security feature anyway. If a bot attacks your site they’re going to try the attack first and won’t care about the version.

By: konradk

konradk — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:35:36 +0000

Chris, to check if installed wp is up to date, plugin needs to compare version numbers. if wp security scan changes variable with version number to ‘abc’ it’s not shame to my plugin but to wp security scan wp sec scan should change it on some higher level, before to print it in head section, not to change variable to all wp engine instance…

By: Brian Meagher

Brian Meagher — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:12:52 +0000

I’d also like to see this in core. An email notifying of WordPress updates/upgrades available.

As for plugins, even a simple email saying “check your plugins, one or more need attention/upgrading…” would be great.

Brian

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WordPress Upgrade Notifications by Email — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:31:58 +0000

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