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WP Auto Updates

by uri · Uncategorized

Easily Enable WP Auto Updates for WordPress Core Plugins and Themes.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
47 Health · D
Maintenance 16/100
Rating quality 65/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 55 average across 14,276 Uncategorized plugins

Removal-risk signals

28/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

54 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 24/100
WP compatibility 68/100
Rating quality 49/100
Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 920 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-32% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

32

now · peak 139

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

WP Auto Updates · #40494 Automatic Safe Updat · #22927 Updatepilot Update L · #46618 Hide Updates · #3000

Downloads per 1k installs · 30d

Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base

Estimated active installs

wp.org reports only “10+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
10–20 ≈19

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,374 observations

Details

Version
0.6.5
Last updated
2.5y ago
Added
2020-06-12 · 6 yrs on WP
Requires WP
4.6
Tested up to
6.4.8
Requires PHP
5.6

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2024-07-11 20+ → 10+ down after 38 days in tier
  2. 2024-06-03 10+ → 20+ up after 37 days in tier
  3. 2024-04-27 20+ → 10+ down after 3 days in tier
  4. 2024-04-24 10+ → 20+ up after 102 days in tier
  5. 2024-01-13 20+ → 10+ down after 91 days in tier
  6. 2023-10-14 30+ → 20+ down after 55 days in tier
  7. 2023-08-20 40+ → 30+ down after 266 days in tier
  8. 2022-11-27 30+ → 40+ up after 4 days in tier

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WP Auto Updates: 10+ active installs, 0.0★ (0 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wp-auto-updates