Core Essentials

<p>Easy Updates Menu is a lightweight plugin that enhances your WordPress admin interface by adding a convenient “Updates” submenu item under the Plugins menu. This submenu only appears when there are plugin updates available, making it easier to quickly access and manage pending updates.</p>
<p>We’ve all dealt with slow servers and clunky setups when running maintenance on sites. How frustrating is it to log in to the dashboard, click on ‘Installed Plugins’, then click ‘Updates’? It eats up precious time. With Easy Updates Menu, you can simply log in to the dashboard, click “Updates,” and start updating without the hassle.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Adds a dynamic submenu item: Plugins <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Updates</li>
<li>Shows the number of available updates in the menu</li>
<li>Only visible when plugin updates are available</li>
<li>Direct access to the updates view</li>
<li>Respects WordPress user capabilities</li>
</ul>
<h4>How It Works</h4>
<p>The plugin automatically checks for available plugin updates and adds a submenu item when updates are found. Clicking the submenu takes you directly to the plugins update screen, streamlining your update workflow.</p>
<h4>User Permissions</h4>
<p>The submenu is only visible to users with the ‘update_plugins’ capability, maintaining proper WordPress security practices.</p>


Easy Updates Menu

Adds a dynamic 'Updates' submenu item under the Plugins menu when updates are available.

Nahid Ferdous Mohit

<p>Make sure your theme and plugins are tested before updating WordPress.</p>
<h3>Backstory</h3>
<p>Recently, WordPress 5.3 came out which included quite a good number of outstanding improvements. I was excited and updated few of my installations only to find out that some of them ran into fatal errors.  Upon investigation, I discovered some plugins which were conflicting simply because they were not tested and incompatible with the update. I wondered, only if there was a plugin which could warn me about plugins or themes that might have not been tested, just before I tried to run updates.</p>
<p>Thus, I decided to build <strong><em>Safe Updates</em></strong>, a small nifty WordPress plugin which lets you know if there are any plugin or theme on your installation that might have not been tested with the target WordPress version before you try to update.</p>
<h3>Use Cases</h3>
<p>The use case of this plugin is very straight-forward. It just gives you an idea about untested plugins or themes that may be untested with the updated WordPress versions and helps you be cautious for conflicts and errors.</p>
<h3>Core Features</h3>
<p>The core features of this plugin include:</p>
<ol>
<li>Display active plugin(s) that might have not been tested with the target WordPress version.</li>
<li>Show if the current theme has not been tested with the target WordPress version.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Notes</h3>
<p>Some notes to consider while using this plugin:</p>
<ol>
<li>The interface only shows up when a core update is available.</li>
<li>A plugin/theme author might choose <strong>not to</strong> disclose the WordPress version up to which it might have been tested up to. In such a case, a plugin/theme might still be incompatible with the targetted update, but <strong><em>Safe Updates</em></strong> might not show it if its author didn’t disclose its tested up to version.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Installation</h3>
<p>Installation of the <strong>Safe Updates</strong> plugin is very simple. Follow along with the installation procedure in the dedicated <a href="#installation" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Installation</strong> tab</a>.</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<ol>
<li><a href="#installation" rel="nofollow ugc">Install</a> and activate the plugin</li>
<li>Go to <em>WP Admin <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Dashboard <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Updates</em>.</li>
<li>If a WordPress update is available, this plugin will add an interface above the <strong>“Update”</strong> button which shows if any of your theme or plugins have not been tested with the target WordPress version.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>If the above usage steps don’t answer your question(s), if you want to report an issue or if something is not working as expected, please create a topic in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/safe-updates/" rel="ugc">Support Forum</a> or <a href="https://github.com/nfmohit/safe-updates/issues/new/choose" rel="nofollow ugc">create an issue on GitHub</a>.</p>
<h3>Contribute</h3>
<p>If you want to contribute to the plugin by reporting issues, implementing new features and so on, <a href="https://github.com/nfmohit/safe-updates" rel="nofollow ugc">here’s its development repository on Github</a>.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>The interface design of this plugin is heavily inspired by the <a href="https://github.com/wpmudev/shared-ui" rel="nofollow ugc">Shared UI</a> from <a href="https://premium.wpmudev.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPMU DEV</a> (Yes, you got that right! I currently work there, we’re a wonderful company and <a href="https://incsub.com/careers/" rel="nofollow ugc">we’re hiring</a>!)</p>
<h3>Sponsor</h3>
<p>You can sponsor this project and support my open-source development by <a href="https://www.patreon.com/nfmohit" rel="nofollow ugc">becoming a Patron</a>!</p>


Safe Updates

Make sure your theme and plugins are tested before updating WordPress.

Easy Updates Menu vs Safe Updates