Aaron D. Campbell

sara cannon

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Pete Mall

Takes the awesome new background updates introduced in WordPress 3.7 and enables them for major updates (like 3.7 → 3.8).

Background Updates for Major Releases

Enables background updates for major releases.  No settings, just activate and enjoy.

cardinal90

Have you ever had a plugin update break your site? I have. And it wasn’t even a major update. I won’t be turning automatic updates for this plugin on in the future. On the other hand, some plugins may be safe to update regardless of version number.
WordPress plugin developer guidelines recommend using <a href="http://semver.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Semantic Versioning</a>. And while not everybody follows it, for many plugins a version number still tells something about possible impact.
With Precise Plugin Updater you choose what type of update is allowed for any single plugin:
<ul>
<li>All – allows any updates</li>
<li>Minor – preserves the first part of a version number</li>
<li>Patch – preserves the first two parts</li>
<li>None – turns automatic updates off</li>
</ul>
This is done on the plugins page itself with a simple interface, that doesn’t require page reload.
You may also set a default policy in the settings, and then override it individually.

Precise Plugin Updater

This automatic plugin updater gives you fine grained control. You may choose to allow any updates, only minor versions, only patch versions, or none.

Background Updates for Major Releases vs Precise Plugin Updater