Title: WordPress version updates &amp; plugin compatibility
Last modified: June 7, 2021

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# WordPress version updates & plugin compatibility

 *  [jcornell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jcornell/)
 * (@jcornell)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-version-updates-plugin-compatibility/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/).
      Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress
      topic

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-version-updates-plugin-compatibility/#post-14528726)
 * >> 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/website-rob/)
 * (@website-rob)
 * [4 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-version-updates-plugin-compatibility/#post-14531049)
 * 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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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Website Rob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/website-rob/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-version-updates-plugin-compatibility/#post-14531049)
 * Status: not resolved

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