Andy Fragen

Peter Westwood

Colin Stewart

Paul Biron

Maura Teal

This plugin provides an easy way to get involved with beta testing WordPress.
Once installed it will enable you to upgrade your website to the latest Nightly, Beta, or Release Candidate at the click of a button using the built in upgrader.
By default once enabled it switches your website onto the point release update channel.
For the more adventurous there is the option to switch to the bleeding edge (trunk) of development.
Don’t forget to backup before you start!
Please enable auto-updates for this plugin to ensure future changes are properly handled with core updates.
<h3>Extra Settings</h3>
There is a setting to Skip successful autoupdate emails. It functions to disable sending emails to the admin user for successful autoupdates. Only emails indicating failures of the autoupdate process are sent.
There is a setting to Skip bundled plugins and themes. It functions to disable the installation of any plugins or themes that are bundled with the Core update.
PRs are welcome on <a href="https://github.com/afragen/wordpress-beta-tester" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.

WordPress Beta Tester

This plugin works great, as advertised.

A lot of people complain that you can't revert the DB changes. I bet (hope) that they are not plugin developers. The plugin warns you about this. You are meant to keep a backup of your site first. If you are testing in a container such as docker or a VM, then it's even easier.

This highlights the issue that user reviews are not always reliable. A lot of users click on plugins and run arbitrary code on their sites without even reading the readme, then they come here and complain. Makes you wonder if there should be a feature on this site for users to rate the usefulness of reviews. Oh well, I'm getting side-tracked!

Anyway, thanks for a great plugin.


Must-have for any theme or plugin developer

When I activated my plugins page returns 503: Server runs out of time. Deactivated this plugin and all back to normal. Not recommended for 4.8.3!

Not recommended for 4.8.3

Great plugin to install beta releases for testing plugins and themes.
It would be helpful to see information about version numbers which will be installed.


Great for testing beta releases but missing information about version numbers


This is just brilliant. It allows anyone to test out the beta and see if everything works - Nice work here! I only found out about this from the WPBUILDS podcast - needs more promotion - its fantastic! 


What a fantastic facility!


As a plugin developer, I need this extension to be able to test my plugin against future versions before the officiale release.


Mandatory for a plugin developer!


Seems to work as expected. Great tool to test plugins before release and ensure they are compatible with the next Wordpress release. So thank you for the plugin. 


Great tool


Perfect for developers to test plugins with new versions of WP. 


Working great

Allows you to easily upgrade for testing the next versions of WordPress.

Automattic

Claudio Sanches

Ron Rennick

Boro Sitnikovski

Mike Jolley (a11n)

Gerhard Potgieter

Peter Fabian

Claudiu Lodromanean

Rodrigo Primo

WooCommerce Beta Tester allows you to try out new versions of WooCommerce before they are officially released.
Use with caution, not on production sites. Beta releases may not be stable.
After activation, you’ll be able to choose an update channel:
<ol>
<li>Beta – Update to beta releases, RC, or stable, depending on what is newest.</li>
<li>Release Candidate – Update to RC releases or stable, depending on what is newest.</li>
<li>Stable – No beta updates. Default WordPress behavior.</li>
</ol>
These will surface pre-releases via automatic updates in WordPress. Updates will replace your installed version of WooCommerce.
Note, this will not check for updates on every admin page load unless you explicitly tell it to. You can do this by clicking the “Check Again” button from the WordPress updates screen or you can set the <code>WC_BETA_TESTER_FORCE_UPDATE</code> to true in your <code>wp-config.php</code> file.
You can get to the settings and features from your top admin bar under the name WC Beta Tester.

WooCommerce Beta Tester

Great plugin

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yep, that just happened

10 Star Review!

It's an invaluable time-saver during testing and development. Thanks a bunch!

Perfect for development and testing

Easily update to prerelease versions of WooCommerce for testing and development purposes.

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