Companion Auto Update keeps growing and with that growth more and more suggestions keep coming in on what features you’d like to see in this plugin. And we love it! Your feedback is what made this plugin what is and what it’ll become so keep ’em coming!
But, not all features can be added at once, some require a lot of work and testing. So we figured we’d add a little list of features we’re working on.
It’s not 100% guaranteed that all of these will make it to the final version but we’ll do our best!
Open tasks
Customize the email trough hooks
We’ll be adding a few hooks and filters to the actual emails so you can add or change the emails completely.
Rollback feature
While this plugin may be all about updating, sometimes you may want to downgrade. We want this to be an option within this plugin.
Updating of paid plugins and themes
Right now only plugins and themes in the free WordPress repository will be updated, we want this to work with (most of the) paid plugins too.
Semantic version updating
Have the option to choose between auto-updating for all versions or only minor versions (just like how you can select between the Major and Minor updates for WordPress updates)
E-mail enhancements
If you will add the plugin’s version number, when sending the email check if this version is the latest, and if not – add a text to encourage folks to update it with a link to the plugin’s download page
Scheduled
Completed
E-mail enhancements
1. Link to the plugin’s main page at wordpress.org (to promote the plugin)
2. Link to the plugin’s support page at wordpress.org
Better handling of plugins with an unknown WP version
Plugins that have an unknown value at “Tested up to WordPress version xx” should be handled a bit better. Not sure how yet though.
More intervals for notifications
Select a different interval for different types of notifications
Alert about old software
Sometimes a plugin developer will stop updating the plugin. After a while this plugin can become a massive security risk. When we introduce this feature you’ll be notified of such plugins.
Userrights
We’ll work on a feature to allow certain parts of the plugins settings to certain userroles.
Statuspage items to the Site Health
Add items of the status page (errors etc.) to the default WordPress Site Health check page.
Better e-mails: Pending updates
First, it would be useful to include a link to the Update section of the WP dashboard instead of a link to the site base url:
{baseurl}/wp-admin/update-core.php instead of {baseurl}
This way, an admin can go directly to the list of pending updates.
Second, I wonder if it is possible to include a list of plugins/themes to be updated? Right now, the notification email only says “There are one or more plugin updates waiting…“. It would be helpful to know which ones are pending.
Theme selection
Just like with plugins we want you to be able to select certain themes to not update automatically
Note: this feature is broken in a later version of the plugin, we’ll try to get it back a.s.a.p.
