WordPress version updates & plugin compatibility

  • jcornell

    (@jcornell)


    4 years, 10 months ago

    I am a one-person volunteer website support team for my non-profit organization. So I don’t have the labor or financial resources to do extensive website testing.

    My problem is with keeping WordPress versions up to date. Whenever a new version is available, my goal is to wait to install this new version until all the plugins we use are updated to show they have been tested as compatible with the new WordPress version. I’m not sure this has ever happened with all the plugins but sometimes I can contact plugin support for the ones that don’t say that and they confirm via message that it is compatible. However currently, I’m waiting on 2 plugins that have not confirmed compatibility before I update to WP 5.7.x and I’ve read somewhere that WP 5.8 is coming soon so I will have to start this cycle all over again.

    Is there another method of doing WordPress version updates in a more timely manner that would also allow me to keep my websites stable with limited resources?

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic
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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    4 years, 10 months ago

    >> my goal is to wait to install this new version until all the plugins we use are updated to show they have been tested as compatible with the new WordPress version <<

    That would be nice, but many plugin authors either don’t test or just neglect to update that field of their plugin when they publish updates. You can be reasonably certain that a plugin with a “large” number of users is compatible with the current versions of WP.

    Website Rob

    (@website-rob)

    4 years, 9 months ago

    If your Plugins are 1 Major version (1.x.x not 2.x.x) or a couple of Minor versions (1.5.4 not 1.7.0) then I wouldn’t worry about updating. Updating is much better these days and not as stressful as it used to be. 😉

    Set all your plugins to Automatic Updates although you might want to keep anything WooCommerce related set to manual. More importantly, do not set Major Updates to WordPress to automatic. Maybe it’s just me but I always prefer to do a current backup before Major Updates to WordPress Core.

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