If you don’t check your admin panel on your WordPress install very often (maybe because you prefer to use remote publishing) or you want to make sure that your clients’ WordPress installations are updated, then this is the plugin for you. You don’t have to login to your admin panel regularly, suscribe to an RSS feed, or do anything apart from installing this plugin to be notified when an update to WordPress is released.
All you have to do is install Update Notifier and forget it until you receive an email telling you to update.
To change Update Notifier’s options, go to the Update Notifier submenu under the main Settings menu. From there you can add a secondary email address which will also receive update notifications and you can activate update notifcations for themes and plugins.
Installation
- Download and unzip
- Upload update-notifier folder to wp-content/plugins/
- Activate the plugin in your admin panel
- (Optional) Go to Update Notifier submenu in the Settings menu and set your preferred settings for Update Notifier
- Wait for an email when the next version of WordPress is released
Frequently Asked Questions
I have the plugin enabled on my WordPress installation, but I’m not receiving emails when a new update is released. Why?
Make sure that the admin email address (see General Settings in WordPress) is set correctly to your email address.
Otherwise, have you tried looking in your spam folder? To prevent Update Notifier emails going into your spam you should set up a filter making sure that emails with the subjects: “Time to update WordPress”; “It’s time to update your plugins”; and “It’s time to update your themes”, aren’t placed in your spam folder.
I am receiving notifications telling me to upgrade from version 'abc', but I have the latest version installed.
You probably have a plugin installed which is changing the global $wp_version variable.
For example the WP Security Scan plugin changes the internal version to 'abc', to disable this comment out line 53 of securityscan.php://add_action("init",mrt_remove_wp_version,1);
Hopefully this is a non-issue from Update Notifier 1.3 (at least I'm having no problems)