Make sure your theme and plugins are tested before updating WordPress.
As of April 2026, Safe Updates is a WordPress safe plugin with 0 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 1.2K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Support WebP – Upload webp files in….
Make sure your theme and plugins are tested before updating WordPress.
Recently, WordPress 5.3 came out which included quite a good number of outstanding improvements. I was excited and updated few of my installations only to find out that some of them ran into fatal errors. Upon investigation, I discovered some plugins which were conflicting simply because they were not tested and incompatible with the update. I wondered, only if there was a plugin which could warn me about plugins or themes that might have not been tested, just before I tried to run updates.
Thus, I decided to build Safe Updates, a small nifty WordPress plugin which lets you know if there are any plugin or theme on your installation that might have not been tested with the target WordPress version before you…
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 5.5.18 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
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