"Safe WP Updates" by WP Boom

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1. ★★★★★ myaffee

   1.6y ago

   WordPress updates can be such a pain, particularly with the number of sites I have to maintain, because you never know if some plugin or theme update is going to break a site and lead to a fire drill of trying to fix or restore the site. This plugin makes the whole process so much easier because I can quickly spawn a dev site, run the updates there and then compare live to dev to see if anything changed or broke. This is a game changer for those of us who have to maintain a bunch of sites.

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2. ★★★★★ gunnybond

   1.6y ago

   Even without subscribing to the WP Boom service (which is very useful), the ability to clone my live site as a dev site – complete with config changes, without having to fuss over the details, is so useful and saves me so much time. Once I am done with the cloned site I can simply delete it. The WP Boom service has a free tier that lets me take screenshots of all the pages on my live site AND my dev site. I can even compare future screenshots to help me ascertain if anything changed since the original screenshot. If the page broke because of a plugin or theme update, the plugin displays this by providing you with a percentage that indiciates the differences, along with a magenta mask to highlight those changes. This topic was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by gunnybond.

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Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Test Email Redirector 100+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags C
• Wowholic CORE 60+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags B
• Coral – Remote Images 10+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D
• M Missing Content 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D
• Back To The Theme 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D
• Development Assistant 10+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags B

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"Safe WP Updates" by WP Boom: — active installs, 5.0★ (2 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-09-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/safe-wp-updates-by-wp-boom