Gary Pendergast

If writing your own code to link Automatic Updater to your backup solution is outside of your expertise, then I would strongly recommend VaultPress to take care of it all automatically.

I won’t be adding code to handle specific external themes or plugins.

These themes and plugins can hook into the normal WordPress update functions – if they do that, Automatic Updater will pick that up and update them.

Alternatively, Automatic Updater has the filters auto_updater_plugin_updates and auto_updater_theme_updates – both of these provide an array of the plugins/themes to be updated – a premium theme or plugin would just need to add their own element to the array when an update is available, to be included in the update process.

There’s a filter available called auto_updater_plugin_updates, which passes an array of all the plugins it intends to update. It’s the same array as $plugins->plugins in the example you gave, so it should just be a matter of unsetting the array element with your plugin_basename() as the key.

Let me know how this goes!

Hey Tristan,

So, here’s how it will all work:

As @westi said, when you use Beta Tester, it will switch you over to the nightly builds. You currently have the option of using the 3.4.x nightly builds, or the 3.5 nightly builds. I agree that we shouldn’t be only upgrading between each Beta release – this will only produce outdated or duplicate bug reports. The nightly builds are reasonably stable once we get to beta phase, there are rarely any massive changes site-breaking changes occurring at this stage.

So, Automatic Updater will do the following, if you’re on a nightly stream:
– Every 24 hours, it will install the latest nightly of the stream you’re currently on.
– When the stable version of that stream is released, it will download and install it as part of the nightly process.
– If you still have Beta Tester activated, it will continue to install updates from that stream.
– If Beta Tester is deactivated, it will go back to only installing stable updates again, until you reactivate Beta Tester again.

I’ve committed this, I’ll be releasing Automatic Updater 0.6 shortly.
http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/612226/automatic-updater

There seems to be something weird going on with the Beta Tester plugin, it isn’t finding the 3.5 betas. Ie:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-beta-tester-i-use-342-but-cannot-upgrade-to-35-beta

Similarly, when I use it on 3.5b1, it’s not finding 3.5b2, only the nightlies.

I’ll have a chat to @westi and see what’s going on.

Glad to hear you like it! I’ll run some tests with the Beta Tester plugin and see how it goes – let me know if you run into any problems, of course. 🙂

That’s a bit weird – it’s doing text-only emails, so I’m not sure how markup got in there.

Could you post a screenshot of the email? If you’re able to grab the email source from your client, can you also put it on http://pastebin.com/ and post the link?