WP Update Watcher

WordPress plugin that monitors installation for core, plugin and theme updates and emails the client when they are available.

Installation into a Bedrock site

Install

# 1. Get it ready (to use a repo outside of packagist)
composer config repositories.wp-update-watcher git https://github.com/pvtl/wp-update-watcher

# 2. Install the Plugin
composer require pvtl/wp-update-watcher

Activate / Configure

• Activate the plugin
• Settings > Update Watcher:
  • For now, please set the cron to Other Cron and manually setup a cron for once a month (to start 1 month after the site is launched)
  • Set the correct emails
  • Set the recipient's name
  • Only notify for active themes/plugins

[Maintainers Note] Publishing Updates

To update the plugin and make it available for updating via composer, follow these steps:

1. Push your changes to master branch
2. Check existing tags using git tag. This command will print the list of tags for this repository. In our case, git tags are plugin versions.
3. Create a new tag via git tag <tagname>. Example: If the current plugin version is 1.0.6 the next will be 1.0.7, so we need to run git tag 1.0.7
4. Push the tag to the repo git push origin <tagname>. In our case, git push origin 1.0.7