entertheraptor

<p>Time to Update sends you a nicely formatted email notification whenever updates are available for your WordPress core, installed plugins, or themes.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<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.

Upperdog

Emil Gustafsson

<p>When WordPress is updated, it re-installs wp-config-sample.php, readme files, and license files even though you may have deleted them before. This plugin automatically removes these files when WordPress is manually or automatically updated. It also removes these files when activating the plugin for the first time. Removing these files is not mandatory, but you may want to if you don’t want them to expose your WordPress version or if you just like to keep things neat and clean.</p>
<p>Files that are removed:</p>
<ul>
<li>License files, both default and localized</li>
<li>Readme files, both default and localized</li>
<li>wp-config-sample.php</li>
<li>wp-admin/install.php</li>
</ul>
<p><strong><em>You may not want to install this plugin if you’re using a plugin or service to scans your site to verify checksums on the core files. When the removed files are missing it might result in warnings.</em></strong></p>
<h3>Manual installation</h3>
<ol>
<li>Upload the <code>wp-core-update-cleaner</code> directory to the <code>/wp-content/plugins/</code> directory.</li>
<li>Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.</li>
</ol>


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