{"id":17536178,"date":"2024-03-28T19:19:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T19:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/plugin-updates-61\/"},"modified":"2024-03-28T19:19:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T19:19:36","slug":"plugin-updates-61","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/plugin-updates-61\/","title":{"rendered":"Plugin updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seems like getting plugins to consistently update has been an issue ever since the auto-update feature has been available. I understand that the issues can range from various incompatibilities to just plain bad timing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Problem is, when they fail, I don&#8217;t know how many attempts were made if all failed were attempted again, or if ANY were attempted again and what the timing was on ANY of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With security being a priority, it seems there would be some kind of report available &#8211; that can be turned on or off &#8211; that can be emailed and\/or viewed in the management interface, that would provide these and other details.<br \/><br \/>Can this current plugin auto-update capability get some additional features a webmaster can set\/use to help push updates through that might get delayed for any given reason and help her\/she\/him\/he\/they\/them\/those\/it better understand and debug why the fails?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Set a time period to try updates again &#8211; this might help when too many updates were attempted at the same time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Set how many times to retry the failed updates &#8211; maybe setting the delay time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Set the order of which updates go first, then second, etc., as in do the Theme updates first, then the plugin updates, then the WP version update.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Send an alert after attempting to complete multiple updates with a list of those that still failed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Other settings?<br \/><br \/>I&#8217;ve noticed that some plugins are being removed from the repository. I also see the warnings that some plugins have not been updated in recent times. I remove these plugins as these are clearly potential issues at best. This surely reflects on the importance of doing better on updates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-17536178","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/17536178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/17536178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17536178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}