A smoother experience for managing plugins and themes.
As of April 2026, Shiny Updates is a WordPress admin plugin with 20 active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 14 reviews. It has been downloaded 30K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 9 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Loginizer.
Shiny Updates is a WordPress Core Feature Plugin.
It replaces The Bleak Screen of Sadness™ (example) with a simpler and more straight forward experience when installing, updating, and deleting plugins and themes.
Progress updates for these actions don’t add a benefit, they are disruptive and confusing. Shiny Updates deals with these details behind the scenes, leaving users with clear actions and results.
Development for this plugin takes place at GitHub.
To report bugs or feature requests, please use Github issues.
We need help testing the user flows! Please install the Shiny Updates plugin, run the tests below, and share your feedback in the #feature-shinyupdates channel in Slack or create an issue on GitHub.
Update core
| WordPress | 4.6+ requiredTested up to 4.6.30 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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