Title: Automatic Updates for Themes and Plugins
Last modified: September 30, 2016

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# Automatic Updates for Themes and Plugins

 *  [Info Broker 1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/info-broker-1/)
 * (@info-broker-1)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-updates-for-themes-and-plugins/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m currently using WordPress 4.6.1 which has part (or most?) of this plugin 
   already embedded in the Core. What is NOT happening is that I still have to individually
   update Themes and Plugins.
 * Will “Automatic” Shiny Updates become part of the next release of WordPress, 
   or will I still have to install an additional Automatic Updates Plugin to achieve
   that goal?
 * Which current Automattic Updates Plugin is the one that is the most compatible
   with Shiny Updates (and you would recommend with WordPress 4.6.1)?

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Pascal Birchler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swissspidy/)
 * (@swissspidy)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-updates-for-themes-and-plugins/#post-8303051)
 * There was once a UI in the plugin to enable automatic updates, but it was decided
   it’s not something that should have a UI.
 * Automatic updates might find their way back into Shiny Updates and eventually
   WordPress core, but first we should improve the manual process as much as possible.
 * If you want to enable automatic updates now, it’s as easy as putting these 3 
   lines of code in a custom (must-use) plugin or your theme’s functions.php file.
 *     ```
       add_filter( 'allow_major_auto_core_updates', '__return_true' );
       add_filter( 'auto_update_plugin', '__return_true' );
       add_filter( 'auto_update_theme', '__return_true' );
       ```
   

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 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Pascal Birchler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swissspidy/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-updates-for-themes-and-plugins/#post-8303051)
 * Status: not resolved