Companion Auto Update
Manage all updates on your WordPress site. Stay in the know with several optional e-mail notifications and logs. For free.
4.8(105 reviews)
·50K+ active installs·Updated 2 weeks agoAs of April 2026, Companion Auto Update is a WordPress auto plugin with 50K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 105 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.2M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.3.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 90% this week. Top alternative: Auto Upload Images.
4.8/5105 reviews
50K+active installs
4.2M+total downloads
10 yearssince 2016
Overview
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
Main features
- Auto-updating for plugins, themes, core and tran…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Great plugin
by dashmore·10 months ago
Delaying the updates has really improved the reliability of our site.
Thanks for this plug-in
by sankari·1 year ago
Nice options and reliable support.
GREAT
by Hermann Matthias·2 years ago
good idea, and good running, I love this plugin
Great plugin
by bhtvdmeer·2 years ago
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.
Wonderful plugin albeit a past hiccup
by TekGirlyMama·3 years ago
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.
Download Trends
Today: 502Yesterday: 567This week: 4KPeriod total: 173K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.3.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v3.9
96.8%
Other
3.2%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
3.9.4
📅 Release date: March 21, 2026
- 🐞 Fixed: Fatal error on plugin activation
Contributors
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