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WP Auto Updater

WP Auto Updater

Site Management WordPress Updates Management

WP Auto Updater is a WordPress plugin for WordPress Updates Management. It ranks #17 of 41 in that group by active installs and was last updated 5 months ago.

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Slug wp-auto-updater

7K Active installs As the directory reports it, rounded to a band
4.6 Rating out of 5 From 10 ratings
21 Releases Since 28 September 2017
Jun 2026 Last release 5 months ago

Maintenance check

Is WP Auto Updater still maintained?

Yes - by every measure the directory publishes, it is actively maintained.

  • Updated recently. The last release was 5 months ago.
  • Slightly behind on testing. Tested up to 7.0.8, while current plugins are tested on 7.1.
  • Well rated. 4.6 out of 5 from 10 ratings.

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Standing

More installed than 94.4% of the directory

Ahead of 45,074 of the 47,734 plugins that report an install count at all. An install figure on its own says nothing; this is what it is worth.

94.4% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count
45,074 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one
2,659 Plugins ahead of it More active installs, or the same published band
How to read that

The directory rounds install counts hard and publishes them as bands, so two plugins showing the same number are not necessarily level. The percentile is computed over the plugins that report a count at all, which excludes the quarter of the directory sitting on the reporting floor.

Details

The record

Everything the directory publishes about this plugin, as it was last read.

Current version
1.7.4
Requires WordPress
5.9
Tested up to
7.0.8
Requires PHP
7.4
Added to the directory
28 September 2017
Last updated
4 June 2026
Contributors
1
Author
thingsym

Its own tags

  • auto-update
  • Automatic updates
  • background updates
  • core updates
  • updates

Free text typed by the plugin author. The statistics page explains why they are not a taxonomy.

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