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25 December - 2018 By Paal Joachim 8 Comments
Last updated on: January 10, 2019

Selecting to auto update WordPress, themes and plugins in Core.

Back in 2016 Shiny Updates project had a goal to make things nicer and easier to use. This made the plugin and theme adjustments easier to handle. We also began some talks about Automatic Core, themes, plugins and translation update adjustments, but this aspect was thought outside the scope of Shiny Updates as the time. It was put on freeze.

There is now a fresh breeze again to add Automatic Updates into WordPress Core.
As brought about in Matt’s 9 priorities for 2019.

I have made a few wireframes based on the following projects.

Automatic Updater plugin by Pento. One of the WordPress Core Developers.

Update Control WordPress Plugin

 

 

In addition I also helped improve the user interface for the Easy Updates Manager plugin.

Easy-Updates-Manager-WordPress-plugin

 

My wireframe suggestion would be to add automatic updates to Core as well as selecting specific themes or plugins to update manually. The below is meant as inspiration for how it could look.

WordPress-Updates-main-screen

Going to the plugin tab one could select which plugins to autoupdate and which to manually update.

 

WordPress-Updates-Plugins-Screen

 

Simplifying.

One check box to turn on Automatic WordPress Updates.
Then check boxes for turning on each individual section such as Core, Plugins, Themes and Translations.

Automatic-Updates-WordPress-less-details

 

Click All Updates – Plugins – Themes or Translations to open up a more detailed overview.

Automatic-Updates-WordPress-more-details

 

I also made a WordPress trac ticket: core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/45783 (The reason to why I added a ticket is that this is the official way to get something adjusted or added to WordPress. It begins with a ticket so that the Core developers get information about it.)

 

Shiny Updates:

make.wordpress.org/core/2016/06/02/proposal-more-shiny-updates
make.wordpress.org/core/tag/shiny-updates

My automatic updates plugin article.

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Paal Joachim Romdahl

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Comments

  1. wuxiaworld says

    5 November - 2020

    Thank you very much for your themes and plugins in Core. This is a good topic

    Reply
  2. tunnel rush says

    31 August - 2020

    very good! thank for sharing!

    Reply
  3. hamitarh says

    24 January - 2019

    very good

    Reply
  4. bermou says

    10 January - 2019

    very very useful about auto update word press, thank you

    Reply
  5. Joshua Wold says

    27 December - 2018

    This is a wonderful exploration into updates. Glad to see forward progress on this! The interface ideas are a great start, and something worth moving forward on.

    I do want to take a step back though and ask a question about updates. In thinking through this a bit I’m concerned that it might add a bit of cognitive load, as in… making decisions that I might not need to make.

    Here’s a scenario I can imagine (and I welcome insights on this!)

    1. I go to my WordPress site and login
    2. I see there’s a new WordPress version, I update
    3. I’m redirected to the updates page where I see the new interface with options to turn on auto updates in the future.
    4. I have a few paths I can take at this stage. If my website is regularly backed up, and it isn’t too highly trafficked, I might just turn it all on.

    If neither of those are the case though, I’d probably only want security updates turned on. The problem though, is I still go into WordPress every few weeks and update things without thinking, so this really isn’t much of a shift.

    So, maybe simplifying the interface above to have a “turn on all auto updates” button. And then another button “advanced options”, or something, that allows me to be more granular.

    This definitely needs a bit more thought, so consider these some initial questions 🙂

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    • Paal Joachim says

      27 December - 2018

      Very good thoughts Joshua!
      I will think on this and add another wireframe simplifying the initial cognitive load on the user.

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      • Joshua Wold says

        27 December - 2018

        Awesome! Look forward to seeing it 🙂

        Reply
        • Paal Joachim says

          10 January - 2019

          For anyone coming across these comments. The wireframes where I simplified the features are added to the post.

          Reply

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