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WP Composer Auto Updates WP Registry grade A. No security issues foundWP RegistryNo security issues foundOpen the reportA

WordPress MU-Plugin to enable maintenance and security updates when the site uses version control and DISALLOW_FILE_MODS.

★ 8stars
v2.0.0latest · 2mo ago

Install

Download source zip No release zip yet

This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.

Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:

wp plugin install https://github.com/benoitchantre/wp-composer-auto-updates/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
No built-in updater. New versions won't appear under Dashboard → Updates. Install new releases yourself, or let Git Updater track the repository.

WordPress MU-Plugin to enable maintenance and security updates when the site uses version control and DISALLOW_FILE_MODS.

When DISALLOW_FILE_MODS is not set or false, WordPress will behave as if there was no VCS: plugins and themes can be installed or updated from the dashboard. In this scenario, composer.lock will get out of sync. It can be used to hand-off a project to a client.

Installation

This package can be installed in the mu-plugins directory with composer/installers. As WordPress only load php files inside mu-plugins directory, it needs to be included required by a file or autoloaded using roots/bedrock-autoloader or similar solutions.

Example of a composer.json to manage a WordPress site with Composer:

{
  "require": {
    "php": ">=7.2",
    "benoitchantre/wp-composer-auto-updates": "^2.0",
    "composer/installers": "^1.0",
    "johnpbloch/wordpress": "^5.5",
    "roots/bedrock-autoloader": "^1.0"
  },
  "extra": {
    "wordpress-install-dir": "public/wp",
    "installer-paths": {
      "public/wp-content/mu-plugins/{$name}": [
        "type:wordpress-muplugin"
      ],
      "public/wp-content/plugins/{$name}/": [
        "type:wordpress-plugin"
      ],
      "public/wp-content/themes/{$name}/": [
        "type:wordpress-theme"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Releases

5 releases.

Tag
Published
v2.0.0 latest
Aug 13, 2026 2mo ago
Feb 8, 2023 3 years ago
May 22, 2021 5 years ago
May 22, 2021 5 years ago
May 22, 2021 5 years ago

These releases are tags only. The author does not attach a packaged zip, so there are no download counts to report.

A grade

Security

WP Composer Auto Updates 2.0.0 · audited by WP Registry

No security issues found.

Audited release
2.0.0
Findings
none
Worst severity
—
Content hash
8951b5362be8d8da8d6642ba…

WP Registry hashes the installable build and reports on that exact bytes-for-bytes copy. Embargoed findings are withheld until they are disclosed, so a clean verdict means nothing public is outstanding. WP Manifest does not audit code itself.