Scott Cariss

<p>Automatic upgrades on live sites are, we think most people would agree, a Bad Idea. You can’t test them before they go live; they’ll play havoc with your version control system, if you’re using one; and if they fail or screw up, your live site is broken. Bad. Idea.</p>
<p>Enter Staunch. Staunch makes you stick to best practice for upgrades, by preventing even admins and superadmins from running WordPress’s automatic upgrade processes on your live site.</p>
<p>When you want to upgrade WordPress, you can do so on a local or development install of your site; after you’ve tested it and made sure everything’s okay, you can then deploy the site as you usually would — through version control, FTP, or something else.</p>


Staunch

A WordPress plugin to prevent automatic updates on your live sites.

Hudson Atwell

<p>Provides easy way to ‘roll back’ and ‘roll forward’ plugin versions that support version tagging.</p>
<p>Please note that this plugin cannot reverse database upgrade routines that have been implemented. You will want to contact and ask the plugin developer if it is safe to roll back a version.</p>
<h4>Highlights</h4>
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<li>Roll back plugin versions for plugins that support version tags.</li>
<li>Roll forward plugin versions for plugins that support version tags.</li>
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<h4>About the Plugin</h4>
<p>This plugin was built in response to an ongoing conversation hosted on <a href="http://wpchat.com/t/looking-for-good-resources-on-starting-a-beta-team-and-gaining-in-quality-assurance/549/6" title="Looking for good resources on starting a beta team and gaining in quality assurance" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Chat </a> covering quality control & plugin development.</p>
<h4>Developers & Designers</h4>
<p><a href="https://github.com/atwellpub/wordpress-plugin-version-control" title="Follow & Contribute to core development on GitHub" rel="nofollow ugc">Follow Development on GitHub </a><br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/atwellpub" title="See our latest development commits on Twitter" rel="nofollow ugc">Follow Development on Twitter </a></p>


Plugin Version Switching

Provides easy way to 'roll back' and 'roll forward' plugin versions that support version tagging.

Staunch vs Plugin Version Switching