PrecisionWP

<p>Managing a WordPress site can be frustrating—even for experienced users. Simple changes like limiting post revisions, enforcing strong passwords, or disabling file editing often require digging into code or editing configuration files, which can be intimidating and risky for non-developers. WordPress’s default settings don’t always provide the flexibility or control site owners need, leaving many wishing for an easier way to customize, secure, and optimize their sites without technical headaches.</p>
<p><strong>AdminEase</strong> by PrecisionWP brings together the most-requested admin features—like update automation, security hardening, performance tweaks, and notification controls—into one intuitive toolkit. With AdminEase, even non-technical users can fine-tune their WordPress site’s behavior, boost security, and streamline maintenance, all from a user-friendly dashboard. No coding required—just point, click, and relax while your site runs smoother and safer.</p>
<h4>Key Benefits</h4>
<p>✓ <strong>No Coding Required</strong> – User-friendly interface for all skill levels<br />
✓ <strong>Enhanced Security</strong> – Protect your site from common vulnerabilities<br />
✓ <strong>Better Performance</strong> – Optimize WordPress for speed and efficiency<br />
✓ <strong>Complete Control</strong> – Toggle features on/off anytime without risk<br />
✓ <strong>Time Saver</strong> – Manage dozens of settings from one dashboard</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<h4>Updates and Notifications</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Auto Update Core</strong>: Enable/disable automatic WordPress core updates.</li>
<li><strong>Auto Update Plugins</strong>: Enable/disable automatic plugin updates.</li>
<li><strong>Auto Update Themes</strong>: Enable/disable automatic theme updates.</li>
<li><strong>Auto Update Translations</strong>: Enable/disable automatic translation updates.</li>
<li><strong>Update Notification Emails</strong>: Receive emails when core, themes, or plugins are auto-updated.</li>
<li><strong>New User Admin Notification Email</strong>: Notify admin on new user registration.</li>
<li><strong>User Password Change Admin Notification Email</strong>: Notify admin when a user changes their password.</li>
<li><strong>Comment Admin Notification Email</strong>: Notify admin on new comments.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Security</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Disable File Edit</strong>: Prevent editing theme/plugin files from the admin panel.</li>
<li><strong>Disable File Mods</strong>: Prevent all file modifications in WordPress, including installing, updating, and deleting plugins and themes.</li>
<li><strong>Disable XML-RPC</strong>: Block XML-RPC access to reduce attack surface, with IP allowlist.</li>
<li><strong>Disable REST API</strong>: Block REST API access, with IP allowlist.</li>
<li><strong>Disable Embeds</strong>: Stop automatic embedding of external content.</li>
<li><strong>Hide WordPress Version</strong>: Remove version info from source code and feeds.</li>
<li><strong>Password Protect Site</strong>: Protect your entire website with a password, featuring customizable themes, role-based bypasses, IP whitelisting, device remembering, and auto-disable scheduling.</li>
<li><strong>Block Access to .htaccess/.htpasswd</strong>: Protect sensitive server files.</li>
<li><strong>Disable Pingbacks</strong>: Prevent XML-RPC pingback abuse.</li>
<li><strong>Block Author Scans</strong>: Prevent username enumeration.</li>
<li><strong>Block Directory Browsing</strong>: Stop public directory listing.</li>
<li><strong>Disable Script Concatenation (Admin)</strong>: Prevent certain DoS attacks in admin.</li>
<li><strong>Block Specific Countries (GeoIP)</strong>: Restrict site access by country.</li>
<li><strong>Block Specific Bots</strong>: Control which bots can access your site</li>
<li><strong>CORS Headers</strong>: Enable Cross-Origin Resource Sharing to allow trusted websites to access your site’s resources safely.</li>
<li><strong>Hide PHP Version</strong>: Remove X-Powered-By header to hide PHP version information from headers.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Performance</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>WP Memory Limit</strong>: Set the memory limit for WordPress.</li>
<li><strong>WP Max Memory Limit</strong>: Set the maximum memory for admin tasks.</li>
<li><strong>Max Execution Time</strong>: Set PHP script timeout.</li>
<li><strong>Autosave Interval</strong>: Customize how often WordPress auto saves your work.</li>
<li><strong>Disable WP Cron</strong>: Replace WP-Cron with a real server cron job for reliability.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Posts</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Empty Trash Days</strong>: Set the number of days to keep deleted posts in trash.</li>
<li><strong>Post Revisions</strong>: Limit or disable post revisions to save database space.</li>
<li><strong>Disable Gutenberg Editor</strong>: Disable the block editor and revert to the classic editor.</li>
<li><strong>Drag and Drop Ordering Posts</strong>: Rearrange posts via drag-and-drop.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Taxonomies</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Drag and Drop Ordering Taxonomies</strong>: Rearrange taxonomies via drag-and-drop.</li>
<li><strong>Improved Taxonomy Meta Box</strong>: Enable lazy loading for taxonomy terms to improve performance.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Users</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Disable User Registration</strong>: Block all new user registrations.</li>
<li><strong>Force Strong Passwords</strong>: Enforce password complexity rules (length, case, numbers, symbols).</li>
<li><strong>Auto-Logout User</strong>: Auto-logout users after inactivity (customizable per role and time).</li>
<li><strong>Hide Admin Bar</strong>: Hide the admin bar for specific users.</li>
<li><strong>Redirect After Login/Logout</strong>: Customize where users go after logging in or out</li>
</ul>
<h4>Debug</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>WP Debug</strong>: Enable WordPress debug mode.</li>
<li><strong>WP Debug Log</strong>: Log errors to a file.</li>
<li><strong>WP Debug Display</strong>: Show/hide errors on the site.</li>
<li><strong>Maintenance Mode</strong>: Prevent all users from accessing the site but not the admin area.</li>
<li><strong>Network Viewer</strong>: Enable the Network Viewer to log all incoming HTTP connections to your site in real-time. This feature helps you monitor traffic, detect suspicious activity, and understand how visitors interact with your site.</li>
<li><strong>Debug Log Viewer</strong>: View the debug log directly from the admin panel.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Media</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Upload Max File Size</strong>: Set maximum upload file size.</li>
<li><strong>Allow SVG Uploads</strong>: Enable SVG file uploads with security checks.</li>
<li><strong>Allow Custom File Extension Uploads</strong>: Enable additional file types beyond WordPress defaults</li>
<li><strong>Media Infinite Scrolling</strong>: Enable infinite scrolling for media library.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Automatic Installation</h4>
<ol>
<li>Log in to your WordPress admin panel</li>
<li>Go to Plugins > Add New</li>
<li>Search for “AdminEase”</li>
<li>Click “Install Now” and then “Activate”</li>
<li>Navigate to the AdminEase menu to configure your settings</li>
</ol>
<h4>Manual Installation</h4>
<ol>
<li>Download the plugin zip file</li>
<li>Log in to your WordPress admin panel</li>
<li>Go to Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin</li>
<li>Choose the downloaded zip file and click “Install Now”</li>
<li>Activate the plugin</li>
<li>Navigate to the AdminEase menu to configure your settings</li>
</ol>
<h4>After Activation</h4>
<ol>
<li>Go to the AdminEase menu in your WordPress admin</li>
<li>Explore the organized tabs (Updates, Security, Performance, etc.)</li>
<li>Enable the features you need</li>
<li>Save your settings</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Important:</strong> We recommend testing on a staging site first and always maintain backups before making configuration changes.</p>
<h3>Important Disclaimer</h3>
<p>This plugin modifies core WordPress functionality and behaviors. While we strive to maintain compatibility and stability:</p>
<ul>
<li>The plugin’s features may work differently or not at all depending on your server configuration, hosting environment, and installed plugins</li>
<li>Some features may be restricted on certain hosting providers or server setups</li>
<li>We strongly recommend testing the plugin on a staging environment before using it on a production site</li>
<li>Always maintain regular backups of your website before making any changes</li>
</ul>
<h3>Server Compatibility Notice</h3>
<p>Different server configurations may affect the plugin’s functionality:</p>
<ul>
<li>Shared hosting environments might have restrictions that prevent certain features from working</li>
<li>Some features may require specific PHP extensions or server modules</li>
<li>Server-level email configurations might affect notification control features</li>
<li>.htaccess modifications require Apache or compatible web servers</li>
</ul>
<p>If you experience any issues, please check with your hosting provider about server limitations.</p>


AdminEase

AdminEase boosts your WordPress admin with tools for updates, security, performance, and user management - no coding required.

thingsym

<p>WP Auto Updater plugin enables automatic updates of WordPress Core, Themes, Plugins and Translations. Version control of WordPress Core makes automatic update more safely.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Automatically update WordPress Core</li>
<li>Automatically updates Themes, Plugins and Translations</li>
<li>Set up a schedule automatic updates</li>
<li>Disable automatic updating of each Themes and Plugins</li>
<li>Record update history</li>
<li>Update notification</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Important</strong>: before updating, please back up your database and files.</p>
<h4>Auto Update Scenario</h4>
<p>First of all, we will make an <strong>Auto Update Scenario</strong> which decide the policy of WordPress automatic updates.</p>
<p>You can choose from the following five automatic updates of WordPress Core.</p>
<ul>
<li>Minor Version Update</li>
<li>Major Version Update</li>
<li>Minor Only Version Update</li>
<li>Previous Generation Version Update</li>
<li>Manual Update</li>
</ul>
<h4>Minor Version Update</h4>
<p><strong>Minor Version Update</strong> enable minor updates. Minor updates is default behavior in WordPress for security updates. The transition of the version number is as follows: update from 4.8 to 4.8.1, 4.8.2 …</p>
<h4>Major Version Update</h4>
<p><strong>Major Version Update</strong> enable major updates. The transition of the version number is as follows: update from 4.7 to 4.8, 4.9 …</p>
<h4>Minor Only Version Update</h4>
<p><strong>Minor Only Version Update</strong> enable major updates and minor updates <strong>except version x.y.0</strong>. It make sense to take a “skip” approach to avoid introducing new vulnerabilities into the latest major version release.</p>
<p>Update the WordPress Core version (eg. x.y.1 or later) with security fixed. Not automatically update the latest major version of x.y.0. The transition of the version number is as follows: update from 4.7.z to 4.8.z, 4.9.z … skiped 4.7.0, 4.8.0, 4.9.0 …</p>
<h4>Previous Generation Version Update</h4>
<p><strong>Previous Generation Version Update</strong> enable major updates and minor updates <strong>except the latest major version</strong>. It make sense to take a “wait and see” approach to ensure the latest major version release is stable before.</p>
<p>With the installed WordPress Core version as 4.6.z. If the latest WordPress Core version released to 4.8.0, automatically update it to version 4.7.z. It will be always automatically updated to the previous generation WordPress Core version with probably security fixed.</p>
<h4>Manual Update</h4>
<p><strong>Manual Update</strong> disable automatic updates. You update WordPress Core manually on the Dashboard Updates Screen.</p>
<p><strong>Automatic updates</strong> and <strong>manual updates</strong> are available for themes, plugins and Translations.<br />
It is also possible to disable automatic updating of each Themes and Plugins.</p>
<h4>Scheduled automatic updates</h4>
<p>Next we will set up a schedule for automatic updates.<br />
The update interval can be selected from the following four.</p>
<ul>
<li>Twice Daily (12 hours interval)</li>
<li>Daily</li>
<li>Weekly</li>
<li>Monthly</li>
</ul>
<p>You can also set the day, the day of the week, the hour and the minute of the Update Date.</p>
<p>At the time of automatic update, Automatically updates WordPress Core, Themes, Plugins and Translations to be updated.</p>
<h4>Support</h4>
<p>If you have any trouble, you can use the forums or report bugs.</p>
<ul>
<li>Forum: <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-auto-updater/" rel="ugc">https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-auto-updater/</a></li>
<li>Issues: <a href="https://github.com/thingsym/wp-auto-updater/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/thingsym/wp-auto-updater/issues</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Contribution</h4>
<p>Small patches and bug reports can be submitted a issue tracker in Github. Forking on Github is another good way. You can send a pull request.</p>
<p>Translating a plugin takes a lot of time, effort, and patience. I really appreciate the hard work from these contributors.</p>
<p>If you have created or updated your own language pack, you can send gettext PO and MO files to author. I can bundle it into plugin.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/thingsym/wp-auto-updater" rel="nofollow ugc">VCS – GitHub</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-auto-updater/" rel="ugc">Homepage – WordPress Plugin</a></li>
<li><a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-auto-updater" rel="nofollow ugc">Translate WP Auto Updater into your language.</a></li>
</ul>
<p>You can also contribute by answering issues on the forums.</p>
<ul>
<li>Forum: <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-auto-updater/" rel="ugc">https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-auto-updater/</a></li>
<li>Issues: <a href="https://github.com/thingsym/wp-auto-updater/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/thingsym/wp-auto-updater/issues</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Contribute guidlines</h4>
<p>If you would like to contribute, here are some notes and guidlines.</p>
<ul>
<li>All development happens on the <strong>develop</strong> branch, so it is always the most up-to-date</li>
<li>The <strong>master</strong> branch only contains tagged releases</li>
<li>If you are going to be submitting a pull request, please submit your pull request to the <strong>develop</strong> branch</li>
<li>See about <a href="https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/" rel="nofollow ugc">forking</a> and <a href="https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests/" rel="nofollow ugc">pull requests</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Test Matrix</h4>
<p>For operation compatibility between PHP version and WordPress version, see below <a href="https://github.com/thingsym/wp-auto-updater/actions" rel="nofollow ugc">Github Actions</a>.</p>


WP Auto Updater

No problems.
The option to set a time, also when the interval is a week, is very useful.

Works good


The Schedule updates works better than premium plugin "Easy Update Manager"


Great plugin!!


I'm start using this plugins to all websites I manage.


Works nicely

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