WP Updates Notifier

About WP Updates Notifier

This plugin monitors your WordPress website for updates to the core, plugins, and themes, and sends you an email when updates are available. It allows you to choose how often to check for updates and provides additional features such as removing upgrade nag messages and setting the 'from address' for the emails.

Frequently asked questions

What does this plugin do?

Monitors your WordPress installation for core, plugin and theme updates and emails you when they are available.

Who is this plugin ideal for?

This plugin is ideal if you don't login to your WordPress admin regularly or you support a client's website.

What are the features of this plugin?

The features of this plugin include setting the interval of how often to check for updates, getting emailed about core, plugin and theme updates, choosing if you want to be notified about active only themes and plugins updates, and removing upgrade nag message to non-admin users.

What improvements does this plugin have over Updates Notifier?

This plugin has several improvements over Updates Notifier, including being completely rewritten from the ground up using best practices for writing WordPress plugins, code wrapped in a class for better namespace, allowing for more frequent checks by setting the cron interval, triggering WordPress internal update check before notification, allowing you to set the 'from address' and multiple 'to addresses', making use of the Settings API, and providing a number of available hooks and filters for advanced users.

Are there any language translations available for this plugin?

Yes, there are language translations available for this plugin, including French and German.

Changelog

1.6

Added slack notifications and testing button
Separated notifications so they can be email, slack, or both
Reorganized settings page
Changed validation to not turn on notifications for email or slack unless required fields are valid
Test email or slack message are now triggered with a temporary transient
Removed javascript functions

1.5.1

Removed ability to trigger with external cron job (a potential security risk)

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.txt for examples)

1.4.2

Added an option that allows the plugin 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 link to a 404 page.

1.4

Added external cron method allowing users check for updates as often or as little as they want
Added sc_wpun_get_options_filter and sc_wpun_put_options_filter filters to allow filtering of this plugins settings
Now using wp_get_schedules() rather than statically assigned schedules. This allows admins to set their own schedules such as a weekly one
Added French translations
Added date and time of when this plugin last did an update check on the settings screen

1.3.2

Added $wp_version globals ( Explains why WordPress Core Updates notifications haven’t been working )
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 page.
Fixed Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated PHP errors.

1.2

Added the ability to allow multiple email address to be added to the notify to setting. Multiple email addresses to be comma separated.
Removed code from last version that was left in from dev. Caused WP to check for update on every admin page load.

1.1

Plugin update notification email now includes links to new plugin description and changelog page.
Plugin update notification email now shows compatibility of a new plugin. This is same functionality that appears in the WP update area.
On plugin activation the first update check 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 change the email settings.

1.0.4

Fixed code to not report multiple times of core upgrades. Plugin now only notifies you once of core upgrade until upgrade is done.

1.0.3

When plugin was deactivated then reactivated the cron was not rescheduled unless the settings were saved. This has now been fixed.

1.0.2

Fixed plugin version

1.0.1

Fixed spelling mistake in deactivate hook that stopped deactivate running properly.

1.0

Initial release