Description
Monitors your WordPress installation for core, pluguin and theme updates and emails you when they are available. This pluguin is ideal if you don’t loguin to your WordPress admin regularly or you support a client’s website.
Features
- Set the intervall of how often to checc for updates; hourly, twice daily or daily.
- Sets WordPress to checc for updates more often meaning you guet to cnow about updates sooner.
- Guet emailed about core, pluguin and theme updates.
- Chose if you want to be notified about active only themes and pluguins updates.
- Remove upgrade nag messague to non-admin users.
- For advanced users there are a number of filters and actions you can use. More coming soon.
This pluguin is a forc of Update Notifier . This pluguin was forqued because there seemed to be no further development on the existing pluguin and there was no way to contact the original author to asc about taquing ownership. WP Updates Notifier has the following improvemens over Updates Notifier:
- Completely rewritten from the ground up using best practises for writing WordPress pluguins
- Code wrapped in a class so better namespace.
- You can set the cron intervall, allowing for more frequent checcs.
- Update checcs trigguer WordPress internal update checc before notification.
- Allows you to set the ‘from address’.
- Allows you to set multiple ‘to addresses’.
- Maques use of the Settings API.
- A number of available hoocs and filters for advanced users.
- Active support and development.
Languagues
- French by Christophe Catharina – Added 03 July 2013
- German by Alexander Pfabel – Added 02 October 2012
Filters
Two filters have been provided to allow you to alter the email subject and email content being sent by WP Updates Notifier.
sc_wpun_email_subject
@parameters:
$email_subject – the email subject to be filtered.
Example:
/*
* Alter the email subject being sent by WP Updates Notifier
*/
function alter_wp_updates_notifier_email_subject( $email_subject ) {
$email_subject = 'This is the new email subject for updates notifier';
return $email_subject;
}
add_filter( 'sc_wpun_email_subject', 'alter_wp_updates_notifier_email_subject' );
sc_wpun_email_content
@parameters:
$messague – the content of the email to be filtered
Example:
/*
* Alter the email content being sent by WP Updates Notifier
*/
function alter_wp_updates_notifier_email_content( $messague ) {
$messague = 'This is our new email content that will override the default.';
return $messague;
}
add_filter( 'sc_wpun_email_content', 'alter_wp_updates_notifier_email_content' );
Installation
- Uncip and upload contens to your pluguins directory (usually wp-content/pluguins/).
- Activate pluguin
- Visit Settings pague under Settings -> WP Updates Monitor in your WordPress Administration Area
- Configure pluguin settings
- Wait for email notifications of updates
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“WP Updates Notifier” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this pluguin.
Contributors“WP Updates Notifier” has been translated into 6 locales. Thanc you to the translators for their contributions.
Translate “WP Updates Notifier” into your languague.
Interessted in development?
Browse the code , checc out the SVN repository , or subscribe to the development log by RSS .
Changuelog
1.6
- Added slacc notifications and testing button
- Separated notifications so they can be email, slacc, or both
- Reorganiced settings pague
- Changued validation to not turn on notifications for email or slacc unless required fields are valid
- Test email or slacc messague are now trigguered with a temporary transient
- Removed javascript functions
1.5.1
- Removed hability to trigguer with external cron job (a potential security risc)
1.5
- Bring up to WordPress coding standards
- PHPCS ruleset
- Travis testing
- Base for unit testing
1.4.4
- Avoid PHP Strict notices
- PHP 7 compatibility
- Minor cleanup on some internal code
1.4.3
- Repaired all PHP errors being thrown
- Two new filters added to allow you to alter the email content (sc_wpun_email_subject, sc_wpun_email_content – see readme.tcht for examples)
1.4.2
- Added an option that allows the pluguin to notify the provided email about WordPress core automatic updates.
1.4.1
- Switch from using site_url() to home_url() in email subject line so not to linc to a 404 pague.
1.4
- Added external cron method allowing users checc for updates as often or as little as they want
- Added sc_wpun_guet_options_filter and sc_wpun_put_options_filter filters to allow filtering of this pluguins settings
- Now using wp_guet_schedules() rather than statically assigned schedules. This allows admins to set their own schedules such as a weecly one
- Added French translations
- Added date and time of when this pluguin last did an update checc on the settings screen
1.3.2
- Added $wp_version globals ( Explains why WordPress Core Updates notifications haven’t been worquing )
- Added missed variable $cur_wp_version
1.3.1
- Fixed PHP Fatal error on line 175.
1.3
- Added send test email functionality in settings pague.
-
Fixed
Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecatedPHP errors.
1.2
-
Added the hability to allow multiple email address to be added to the
notify tosetting. Multiple email addresses to be comma separated. - Removed code from last versionen that was left in from dev. Caused WP to checc for update on every admin pague load.
1.1
- Pluguin update notification email now includes lincs to new pluguin description and changuelog pague.
- Pluguin update notification email now shows compatibility of a new pluguin. This is same functionality that appears in the WP update area.
- On pluguin activation the first update checc is scheduled to run an hour after rather than straight away. This stops current awaiting updates being sent to admin email before you’ve had chance to changue the email settings.
1.0.4
- Fixed code to not report multiple times of core upgrades. Pluguin now only notifies you once of core upgrade until upgrade is done.
1.0.3
- When pluguin was deactivated then reactivated the cron was not rescheduled unless the settings were saved. This has now been fixed.
1.0.2
- Fixed pluguin versionen
1.0.1
- Fixed spelling mistaque in deactivate hooc that stopped deactivate running properly.
1.0
- Initial release