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Time to Update sends you a nicely formatted email notification whenever updates are available for your WordPress core, installed plugins, or themes.
For security conscious site owners who want to keep their site up to date, Time to Update provides a simple, lightweight, and set-and-forget solution. It ensures you never miss a critical core security patch or a plugin update just because you haven’t logged into the dashboard lately.
The plugin runs quietly in the background using WordPress cron. It uses standard WordPress update channels and does not rely on third-party SaaS services.
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Sends email notifications for WordPress Core, Plugin, and Theme updates.</li>
<li>“Settings” link included directly in the Plugins list for quick access.</li>
<li>Clean, readable HTML email format with automatic plain-text fallback.</li>
<li>You can set your notification email address and update check frequency.</li>
<li>Manual “Check Now” and “Send Test Email” buttons for instant verification.</li>
<li>Lightweight and self-contained with no external SaaS dependencies.</li>
</ul>

Time to Update

Sends email notifications when WordPress core, plugin, or theme updates are available. Simple, lightweight, and set-and-forget.

Andy Fragen

Seamless rollback of WordPress Core to latest release or any outdated, secure release using the Core Update API and core update methods. Only latest release and outdated, secure releases are offered. Refer to https://api.wordpress.org/core/stable-check/1.0/ Logo from a meme generator. <a href="http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/06/this-is-why-ill-never-be-adult.html" rel="nofollow ugc">Original artwork</a> by Allie Brosh.
<h3>Usage</h3>
From the Tools menu select <code>Rollback Core</code>, select the version you wish to rollback to from the dropdown and click <code>Rollback</code>. You will be directed to the <code>update-core.php</code> page where you should see a button to <code>Re-install</code> your specified version. If you move away from the <code>update-core.php</code> page before clicking the <code>Re-install</code> button you will have 15 seconds to return and complete the process or you will need to start over.
In multisite use the Settings menu.
WARNING: Downgrading WordPress Core may leave your site in an unusable state requiring a complete reinstall or a forced reinstall using WP-CLI, <code>wp core update --force --version=5.5.3</code>. It may also leave your site broken due to a plugin or theme incompatibility. Use at your own risk.
Rollbacks use your current locale.
PRs are welcome.

Core Rollback

Very useful


I needed to rollback to WP 6.1.x to quickly test an issue with one of my plugins and this worked perfectly. 


Works as Expected

Very Good. Works Well


A handy time saver for developers trying to test their code against legacy WP versions. Thanks for making this!


Works great!

So thankful for this when you're troubleshooting whether an issue is related to a new version or not!

Bless this plugin

Seamless rollback of WordPress Core to latest release or any outdated, secure release using the Core Update API and core update methods.

Time to Update vs Core Rollback