Title: Companion Auto Update
Author: Papin Schipper
Published: <strong>мај 23, 2016</strong>
Last modified: март 21, 2026

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# Companion Auto Update

 By [Papin Schipper](https://profiles.wordpress.org/papin/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/companion-auto-update.3.9.4.zip)

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 * [Reviews](https://mk.wordpress.org/plugins/companion-auto-update/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://mk.wordpress.org/plugins/companion-auto-update/#installation)
 * [Development](https://mk.wordpress.org/plugins/companion-auto-update/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/companion-auto-update/)

## Description

Companion Auto Update is a powerful and completely free plugin that allows you to
manage all the updates on your WordPress site. Our aim is to give you the best control
over these updates and stay in the know at all times.

We understand that you might not always be able to check if your WordPress site 
has any updates that need to be installed. Especially when you maintain multiple
websites keeping them up-to-date can be a lot of work. This plugin can help you 
with that. We’ll keep your site up-to-date and keep you posted about what’s happening
and notify you when we need your help with something.

If you have a feature suggestion or idea you’d like to see in the plugin, we’d love
to hear about it! [Suggest a Feature](https://codeermeneer.nl/contact/)

#### Main features

 1. Auto-updating for plugins, themes, core and translation files
 2. Set at what time you wish to update
 3. Filter plugins and themes to not be updated
 4. E-mail notifications about old software, pending updates and completed updates
 5. An update log with all updates
 6. Option to delay automatic updates with an x number of days

#### Full control over everything

Full control, that’s what this plugin is all about. With this plugin you can enable(
or disable) automatic updating for plugins, themes, WordPress core updates (both
minor and major can be changed separately) and for translation files. Don’t want
to run the updater for all plugins? Don’t worry, just disable auto updating for 
the plugins you’d like to skip and we can even notify you when there’s an update
for these plugins so you can go and update them yourself.

#### Scheduling

By default we’ll check for updates twice a day but you can change this to several
different options if you’d like. When choosing to update on a daily basis you can
even select at what time you’d like it to run. Besides the updaters you can also
schedule te notifications, want to update every hour but only recieve notifications
once a day? No problem!
 Sometimes developers will push an update that will cause
errors on your site, they’ll often fix it within a day but if the updater has run
in the mean time it can cause all kinds of issues. Now you can choose to delay updates
with an x number of days to prevent this from happening.

#### Know what’s happening

We want you to know what’s happening on your website. This plugin offers settings
for various email notifications. We can send you an email when an update is available,
when a plugin has been updated or when wordpress has been updated.
 But if you don’t
want to recieve emails about this you can still log in and view the changelog to
see what happened.

## Screenshots

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 * Full control over what to update and when to recieve notifications
 * [[
 * Disable auto-updating for certain plugins and/or themes
 * [[
 * Advanced scheduling options for updating and notifcations
 * [[
 * Keep track of updates with the update log

## Installation

How to install Companion Auto Update

#### Manual install

 1. Download Companion Auto Update.
 2. Upload the ‘Companion Auto Update’ directory to your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.
 3. Activate Companion Auto Update from your Plugins page.

#### Via WordPress

 1. Search for ‘Companion Auto Update’.
 2. Click install.
 3. Activate.

#### Settings

Settings can be found trough Tools > Auto Updater

## FAQ

### Check our website for the FAQ

[https://codeermeneer.nl/documentation/auto-update/faq-auto-updater/](https://codeermeneer.nl/documentation/auto-update/faq-auto-updater/)

### What features can I expect to see in the future?

Your feedback is what made this plugin what is and what it’ll become so keep the
feedback coming! To see what features you’ve suggested and what we’re working on
[read our blogpost here](https://codeermeneer.nl/blog/companion-auto-update-and-its-future/)

### What’s the difference between WordPress 5.5 and this plugin?

WordPress 5.5 was released recently and it packs tons of new features. One of those
features is auto-updates for plugins and themes. Something Companion Auto Update
does too.
 So obviously, some of you wondered what the difference would be between
the default WordPress method and the one offered by Companion Auto Update and I 
figured I’d quickly write a blog about it, explaining the differences.

[You can read this blogpost here](https://codeermeneer.nl/blog/wordpress-5-5-versus-companion-auto-update/)

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Great plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-40515/)󠁿

 [dashmore](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dashmore/) мај 19, 2025

Delaying the updates has really improved the reliability of our site.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/736ef6bf7a08566f980d432d4152cb43cdfaa8965ea7e20281d078870a9e02fc?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Excellent plugin, amazing work and support, thank you!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-plugin-amazing-work-and-support-thank-you/)󠁿

 [guilamu](https://profiles.wordpress.org/guilamu/) февруари 4, 2025

Edit : bugs are pilling up and support is MIA.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Thanks for this plug-in](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thanks-for-this-plug-in-3/)󠁿

 [sankari](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sankari/) јуни 14, 2024

Nice options and reliable support.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[GREAT](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-16009/)󠁿

 [Hermann Matthias](https://profiles.wordpress.org/matthy99/) декември 1, 2023

good idea, and good running, I love this plugin

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Great plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-36935/)󠁿

 [bhtvdmeer](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bhtvdmeer/) мај 29, 2023

Great plugin. You need to check your site from time to time because automatic updating
can go wrong if a host is not very stable. But that is not the fault of this plugin.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/57fda0966174f6269a75ec77d5fff96c6191f06f1c49392044946e3c78ebf87d?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Wonderful plugin albeit a past hiccup](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wonderful-plugin-albeit-a-past-hiccup/)󠁿

 [TekGirlyMama](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tekgirlymama/) февруари 7, 2023

Just wanted to thank the plugin author, Papin, for all his time and great work o
this free plugin. I hope he goes on maintaining it. It was not updated since wp6.0.3
but it works PERFECTLY well, so I assume no need for Papin to unnecessarily waste
his time. WP now has auto updates, but sans all the features and fine-tuning this
plugin enables.

 [ Read all 105 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/companion-auto-update/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Companion Auto Update” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Papin Schipper ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/papin/)
 *   [ QreativeWeb ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/qweb/)

“Companion Auto Update” has been translated into 17 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/companion-auto-update/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “Companion Auto Update” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/companion-auto-update)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/companion-auto-update/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/companion-auto-update/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/companion-auto-update/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/companion-auto-update/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 3.9.4

📅 Release date: March 21, 2026

 * 🐞 Fixed: Fatal error on plugin activation

#### 3.9.3 (June 10, 2025)

 * Improved security
 * Declared support for WP6.8

#### 3.9.2 (June 11, 2024)

 * Fixed some more undefined variables
 * Declared support for WP6.5

#### 3.9.1 (March 8, 2024)

 * Fixed: Undefined variable $totalNum

#### 3.9.0 (February 2, 2024)

 * Fixed: Fatal error during Cron
 * Fixed: PHP deprecated error for PHP 8 and up

#### 3.8.9 (January 9, 2024)

 * Fixed error: Call to undefined function is_plugin_active()

#### 3.8.8 (December 19, 2023)

 * Fixed a few minor bugs
 * Made some performance improvements
 * We now require at least WordPress 5.3

#### 3.8.7.1 (September 28, 2022)

 * Tweak: Extended function_exists check with get_plugins() for the fatal error 
   when trying to send update emails

#### 3.8.7 (September 12, 2022)

 * Fix: Fatal error when trying to send update emails

#### 3.8.6 (August 11, 2022)

 * Tweak: Code optimization for better performance

#### 3.8.5 (March 17, 2022)

 * New: Added more checks on the status page and added an explanation to some of
   them.
 * New: Added an list of delayed updates on the status page to help with troubleshooting.
 * Tweak: Made some improvements to the update delay feature.
 * Tweak: Added a notice to explain that update delay does not work with WordPress
   update currently.
 * Tweak: Improved code on the status page to be more reliable.

#### 3.8.4 (February 2, 2022)

 * Tweak: Fixed a few styling errors with WP5.9

#### 3.8.3 (December 9, 2021)

 * New: Plugin update e-mails now have an option to link to a few important pages
 * Fix: Error: Undefined index: dbupdateemails
 * Fix: Error: A non-numeric value encountered

#### 3.8.2 (July 1, 2021)

 * Fix: Error: Call to undefined function get_plugin_updates()

#### 3.8.1 (June 4, 2021)

 * New: Be notified when we need your help updating to a new database version [Feature Request](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-839/)
 * Tweak: Made some under the hood performance improvements

#### 3.8.0 (January 14, 2021)

 * New: Better handling of plugins with an unknown WP version
 * New: More intervals for notifications
 * Fix: Call to undefined function errors

#### 3.7.1.1 (November 2, 2020)

 * Fix: Type in wp_next_scheduled

#### 3.7.1 (October 30, 2020)

 * Fix: PHP Warning: strtotime() expects parameter 2 to be integer, string given

#### 3.7 (September 8, 2020)

 * New: Delay updates with an x number of days
 * New: Be notified of plugins that have not been tested with the latest 3 major
   releases of WordPress.
 * New: Choose to see more info in the emails (like the time at which the update
   happened)
 * Fix: “Contact for support” button will work again
 * Fix: Fixed a few PHP errors
 * Tweak: Made improvements to the “Fix it” button for the “All automatic updates
   are disabled” error.
 * Tweak: You can now choose to ignore the “Search Engine Visibility” and “Cronjobs”
   warnings
 * Tweak: Reports on the Site Health page will only show a summary and point to 
   the status page for more information and possible fixes
 * Tweak: Removed cronjob check and Search Engine Visibility check from site health
 * Tweak: E-mails are now fully translatable
 * Tweak: Renamed Core notifications to WordPress notifications
 * Tweak: WordPress plugin and theme update notifications are now disabled

Also: Check out what features we’re working on at [our blogpost](https://codeermeneer.nl/blog/companion-auto-update-and-its-future/)

#### 3.6 (August 12, 2020)

 * New: Added an “after core update” hook [More info](https://codeermeneer.nl/documentation/codex-auto-updater/)
 * New: Select which userroles can access settings. (Defaults to only administrators)
 * Tweak: Added Theme and Core update method the log
 * Tweak: Few WordPress 5.5 improvements

#### 3.5.5 (August 5, 2020)

 * Fix: Added better multisite support
 * Tweak: We’ve added a bunch more checks to the status page and you can now see
   more passed checks.
 * Support for WordPress 5.5

#### 3.5.4.1 (June 20, 2020)

 * Fix: Sometimes the hour settings for intervals wouldn’t show up

#### 3.5.4 (June 19, 2020)

 * New: See translations in the update log
 * New: We’ve added a few checks to WordPress’ Site Health page
 * Fix: Error with Companion Auto Update Database Update
 * Fix: Schedule interval duplicates

#### 3.5.3 (June 5, 2020)

 * New: We’re working on a better update log. You should see the Update method (
   Manual/Automatic) in the log now. (Only works for Plugins right now)
    Please 
   report any issues with this feature over at our sticky post: [Problems with the Update method in the new update log?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-the-update-method-in-the-new-update-log/)
 * Fix: Not able to see checks in boxes (reverted back to before it all went wrong)
 * Fix: Error date_default_timezone_set(): Timezone ID +00:00 is invalid
 * Tweak: The status tab will no longer show turned-off settings as an error
 * Tweak: Made some improvements to the “Update pending” emails, you can now see
   a list of all pending updates and go directly to the update page.

#### 3.5.2 (April 1, 2020)

 * Fix: Not able to see checks in boxes

#### 3.5.1 (March 25, 2020)

 * Tweak: You seem to like the new dashboard, we’ve fixed a few issues regarding
   the responsiveness of the design. We’ve also tweaked the icons to be a bit more
   transparant.
 * Tweak: We’ve added the release notes link to Plain text emails
 * Tweak: Fixed a few typos
 * Tweak: Various minor security improvements

#### 3.5.0 (March 5, 2020)

 * New: In version 3.4.6 we’ve changed to HTML emails rather than plain text, in
   this version you can opt to change it back to plain text emails
 * Fix: We’ve ‘fixed an issue where on occasion nothing would update
 * Tweak: Made some improvements to the “Fix it” button for the AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED
   error
 * Tweak: We’ve changed the dashboard, moved both the settings page and de support
   page to the dashboard. Please let us know if you like this change or not.
 * Bug: We’ve had to (temporarily) disable the theme filter because it was causing
   issues on some installations. We’ll try to get it working again in a future update.

[View full changelog](https://codeermeneer.nl/stuffs/auto-updater-changelog/)

## Meta

 *  Version **3.9.4**
 *  Last updated **4 недели ago**
 *  Active installations **50.000+**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.9.4**
 *  PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
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## Ratings

 4.8 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Papin Schipper ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/papin/)
 *   [ QreativeWeb ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/qweb/)

## Support

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