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Make sure your theme and plugins are tested before updating WordPress.
Backstory
Recently, WordPress 5.3 came out which included quite a good number of outstanding improvements. I was excited and updated few of my installations only to find out that some of them ran into fatal errors. Upon investigation, I discovered some plugins which were conflicting simply because they were not tested and incompatible with the update. I wondered, only if there was a plugin which could warn me about plugins or themes that might have not been tested, just before I tried to run updates.
Thus, I decided to build Safe Updates, a small nifty WordPress plugin which lets you know if there are any plugin or theme on your installation that might have not been tested with the target WordPress version before you try to update.
Use Cases
The use case of this plugin is very straight-forward. It just gives you an idea about untested plugins or themes that may be untested with the updated WordPress versions and helps you be cautious for conflicts and errors.
Core Features
The core features of this plugin include:
- Display active plugin(s) that might have not been tested with the target WordPress version.
- Show if the current theme has not been tested with the target WordPress version.
Notes
Some notes to consider while using this plugin:
- The interface only shows up when a core update is available.
- A plugin/theme author might choose not to disclose the WordPress version up to which it might have been tested up to. In such a case, a plugin/theme might still be incompatible with the targetted update, but Safe Updates might not show it if its author didn’t disclose its tested up to version.
Installation
Installation of the Safe Updates plugin is very simple. Follow along with the installation procedure in the dedicated Installation tab.
Usage
- Install and activate the plugin
- Go to WP Admin Dashboard Updates.
- If a WordPress update is available, this plugin will add an interface above the “Update” button which shows if any of your theme or plugins have not been tested with the target WordPress version.
Support
If the above usage steps don’t answer your question(s), if you want to report an issue or if something is not working as expected, please create a topic in the Support Forum or create an issue on GitHub.
Contribute
If you want to contribute to the plugin by reporting issues, implementing new features and so on, here’s its development repository on Github.
Credits
The interface design of this plugin is heavily inspired by the Shared UI from WPMU DEV (Yes, you got that right! I currently work there, we’re a wonderful company and we’re hiring!)
Sponsor
You can sponsor this project and support my open-source development by becoming a Patron!
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Install
Automatic Installation
- Go to your WordPress Dashboard Plugins Add New.
- Search for “Safe Updates”.
- Click on “Install”.
- Once installed, click on “Activate”.
Manual Installation
- Download the plugin .zip folder using the download button on this page.
- Go to your WordPress Dashboard Plugins Add New.
- Click on the “Upload Plugin” button.
- Upload the downloaded .zip file.
- Activate it.
Usage
- Install and activate the plugin
- Go to WP Admin Dashboard Updates.
- If a WordPress update is available, this plugin will add an interface above the “Update” button which shows if any of your theme or plugins have not been tested with the target WordPress version.
FAQ
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Is this plugin free?
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Definitely! Safe Updates is free and always will be.
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“Safe Updates” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
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1.0.2
- Fixed issue where notices were showing up if the component was tested further than the target version
1.0.1
- Tested up-to WordPress 5.4
- Fixed issue which was causing the interface to show up even when an update was not available
- Updated developer tools
1.0
- Initial Release