Easy Updates Manager Premium 9.0.19

Easy Updates Manager is a lightweight yet powerful WordPress plugin designed to give site owners granular control over the entire WordPress update system. While WordPress itself offers automatic updates (especially for minor security releases), this plugin takes that functionality to the next level by allowing you to decide what, when, and howeverything on your site gets updated.

In short, it’s a central command center for all your updates—core software, plugins, themes, and translations.

The main benefit of Easy Updates Manager is the flexibility it provides, which is especially vital for sites with complex setups or those managed by developers.

Customized Automation: You can quickly set a global preference to either enable all automatic updates or disable all automatic updates with a single click.

Granular Control: The real power is in the details. You can selectively enable or disable auto-updates for individual plugins and specific themes. This is incredibly useful if you have a custom-developed plugin that you know shouldn't update automatically, while still allowing commercial plugins to stay current.

Core Updates: You get to choose how WordPress core updates are handled—manually, automatically for minor releases (the default), or automatically for all major releases.

Logging: The plugin includes a built-in log that tracks every update that has occurred, including the old and new version numbers. This is a lifesaver for debugging because if a new update breaks your site, you know exactly what changed and when, helping you roll back to a stable version.

Notifications: It allows you to configure email notifications to alert you when updates happen or when they are available, keeping you informed without constantly logging into your dashboard.

While core WordPress updates are much better than they used to be, the default system is still a "one-size-fits-all" approach. Easy Updates Manager offers a solution to common pain points:

Preventing Breakage: The biggest fear with auto-updates is that an incompatible plugin or theme update will break your site. By letting you disable auto-updates for critical components, the plugin acts as an essential safety net, allowing you to test those key updates on a staging site before deploying them live.

Centralized Management: For those managing WordPress Multisite networks or multiple client sites, this plugin provides a unified, clear interface to manage updates across all properties efficiently.

Proactive Security: By making it so easy to enable automatic updates for everything that isn't prone to conflict, you ensure your site's security patches and bug fixes are applied immediately, reducing vulnerability.

The Easy Updates Manager plugin essentially allows you to strike the perfect balance between the convenience of automation and the security of granular control.

If you'd like to see the plugin in action, you can check out this guide:

How to Enable & Disable WordPress Automatic Updates. The video explains how to use the Easy Updates Manager plugin to control your WordPress updates.

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