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Easy Updates Manager

4.8 out of 5 stars. 4.8 725 reviews

Manage all your WordPress updates, including individual updates, automatic updates, logs, and loads more. This also works very well with WordPress Mul …

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v9.0.22 300,000+ installs WP 5.1+ PHP 5.6+

By David Anderson / Team Updraft · Read the readme on WordPress.org

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What you get inside

8 screens

  • Single site install settings page location

  • Multisite install settings page location

  • General Tab with main options

  • Plugins tab with individual options allowed

  • Themes tab with individual options allowed

  • Logs feature

  • Premium logs feature

  • Advanced tab

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Single site install settings page location

Single site install settings page location

About this plugin

Easy Updates Manager is a light yet powerful plugin that allows you to manage all kinds of update- both on your single site install, or in WordPress Multisite. With a huge number of settings for endless configuration, Easy Updates Manager is an obvious choice for anyone wanting to take control of their website updates.

Free Features Include

  • Disable all updates with one click
  • Enable automatic updates with one click
  • Deeply customize your automatic update settings
  • Use logs to determine what and when something is updated
  • Hide plugin and theme updates (if custom developed)
  • Select which plugins and themes can be automatically updated
  • Disable core, plugin, theme, and translation updates
  • Force Updates to check that automatic updates are working
  • Integrate with UpdraftPlus
  • Configure email notification settings
  • And much more…

Go Premium

Visit easyupdatesmanager.com to upgrade to our premium features.

Premium features include:

  • Safe mode: ensures updates are compatible with your WordPress version and your server’s PHP version
  • Schedule for automatic updates: runs the updates when you want them to avoid any downtime
  • External logging – Get alerts when new updates have been logged
  • Anonymization – Control what is sent to the WordPress API
  • Delayed updates – Delay automatic updates in the case of hotfixes and frequent releases
  • Auto backups: integrates with UpdraftPlus and take a backup before your site is updated
  • UpdraftCentral: fully integrates with UpdraftCentral
  • Log clearing schedule: keeps your logs table under control and deletes entries according to your own schedule
  • Import/Export settings: exports your settings from one site to another for quick configuration
  • Email notification of updates: gives you weekly or monthly reports of pending updates
  • White label: disables notices and customizes what the client sees
  • Check plugins: runs a check of plugins that have been removed from the WordPress Plugin Directory
  • Webhook: integrates with third-party services to run automatic updates via cron or even Zapier
  • Export logs: exports logs for printing, or downloads a CSV or JSON file for a date range
  • Version control protection: prevent updates from occurring to plugins and themes under version control

For more information on Easy Updates Manager Premium, check out our website at easyupdatesmanager.com.

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Questions

Do you support older WordPress versions?

Version 6.x.x should support WP versions 4.0 and up. Version 4.7.0 should support WP versions 2.3 – 4.0.

Since WordPress is constantly changing, this plugin will always strive to support the latest version of WordPress. As there are many security vulnerabilities reported, please always keep WordPress as up-to-date as possible.

Unfortunately, we do not support older versions of WordPress or the non-current release of this plugin.

How do I change the WordPress update notification e-mail?

Go to the General tab in our settings. You can enter a single email address, or multiple if you comma-separate them.

Automatic Updates

Check out our video on how the automatic updating works in WordPress.

https://vimeo.com/291084023

How Do I Enable Logging?

Check out our video on how logs work.

Does Easy Updates Manager work with third-party plugins and themes?

Since third-party providers use custom update mechanisms, we cannot always guarantee that they will work with Easy Updates Manager. Most will, but there are a number of common mistakes that plugin authors can make.

Additional Information and FAQ

For additional information and FAQs for Easy Updates Manager check out our website.

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