Matt Biscay

Sky Changelog Notifier enhances WordPress automatic update notification emails by including the actual changelog for each updated plugin or theme. This keeps you informed about what changed in each update without having to visit the WordPress.org repository.
Key Features:
<ul>
<li>Automatically fetches and includes changelogs in update notification emails</li>
<li>Works with both plugin and theme updates</li>
<li>Adds emoji indicators (✅🚀❌) to plugin details modal showing version status</li>
<li>Fetches from tagged versions for accuracy, with automatic fallback to trunk</li>
<li>Comprehensive caching for optimal performance</li>
<li>WP-CLI support for testing</li>
<li>Full compatibility with Easy Updates Manager (EUM) and other notification plugins</li>
<li>Locale-agnostic email insertion — works on any localized WordPress site</li>
</ul>
How It Works:
When WordPress automatically updates plugins or themes, this plugin:
<ol>
<li>Fetches the changelog from the plugin/theme’s readme.txt file</li>
<li>Extracts the specific version’s changelog</li>
<li>Appends it to the update notification email</li>
<li>Caches results for 1 hour to improve performance</li>
</ol>
Plugin Modal Enhancement:
When viewing plugin details in the WordPress admin, you’ll see: 
* ✅ Green checkmark – Your version matches the latest 
* 🚀 Rocket – You’re ahead (development version) 
* ❌ Red X – Update available
Compatibility:
Works seamlessly with: 
* Easy Updates Manager 
* Easy Theme and Plugin Upgrades 
* Other update management plugins 
* Uses high priority (999) on standard WordPress filters 
* Hooks into <code>automatic_updates_complete</code> for EUM and similar plugins that bypass WordPress email filters 
* Locale-agnostic insertion using structural markers instead of translatable strings
<h3>Development</h3>
Development happens on GitHub: https://github.com/skyminds/sky-changelog-notifier

Sky Changelog Notifier

Adds changelogs to WordPress automatic update notification emails for plugins and themes.

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This plugin completely disables the theme, plugin and core update checking system in WordPress. The plugin prevents WordPress from 
checking for updates including cronjobs, and prevents any notifications from being displayed.
It’s very important that you keep your WordPress theme, core and plugins up to date! If you don’t, your blog or website could 
be susceptible to security vulnerabilities or performance issues.
If you use this plugin, make sure you keep yourself up to date with new releases of your active WordPress version, plugins 
and themes and update them as new versions are released (simply by deactivating this plugin for a short time).
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Set yourself up a separate Wordpress instance with the free MainWP plugin, and use that for managing all your site updates automatically, manually, or a mix from there instead.




I've been working with Wordpress for about 15 years. This is the way. 💪


Very site should use this with a separate MainWP instance for updates 🥰

Disables the theme, plugin and core update checking, the related cronjobs, plugin/theme update health checks and notification system.

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