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Simba Plugin Updates Manager

Provides a facility for distributing updates and handling licences and renewal reminders for your own WordPress plugins

By David Anderson / Team Updraft·Licences·Free
5(5 reviews)
·40 active installs·Updated 1 week ago
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As of April 2026, Simba Plugin Updates Manager is a WordPress licences plugin with 40 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 5 reviews. It has been downloaded 21K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.5+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Actively maintained — updated within the last month.

5/55 reviews
40active installs
21K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015

Overview

This plugin enables you to host updates for plugins from your own WordPress site.

i.e. It provides a service for the availability and download of WordPress plugin updates – just like the wordpress.org plugin repository. This can be for free plugins, or licensed plugins – it includes a full licence manager (and a free class for using it is available).

This is the plugin updates server that has been providing millions of plugin updates to the users of the paid versions of the UpdraftPlus backup/restore/clone WordPress plugin since 2013 (and various other Team Updraft and Simba Hosting plugins).

A paid connector for WooCommerce is also available, allowing WordPress to automatically assign and renew licences when purchases are made; plus other features for coupons and renewal emai…

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Ratings & Reviews

55 reviews
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Compatibility

WordPress5.5+ requiredTested up to 7.0
PHP7.4+ required

Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.12.0 – 2025-09-06

  • FEATURE: Add an admin page for searching licences
  • TWEAK: Add filters on the list table (allowing editing of columns) and on the HTTP response code when no valid licence exists
  • TWEAK: Ensure validation error messages are formatted correctly
  • TWEAK: Indicate in response whether site has a direct entitlement
  • TWEAK: Avoid use of deprecated E_STRICT constant

…and 2 more changes

View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

David Anderson / Team UpdraftDavid Anderson / Team Updraft
Plugin Info
Version
1.12.0
Last Updated
Mar 25, 2026
WP Requires
5.5+
Tested Up To
7.0
PHP Requires
7.4+
Active Installs
40
Downloads
21K+
Added
Mar 11, 2015
Business
Free

Tags

licencesplugin updatesupdates serverwordpress updateswordpress plugin updates

Developer

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David Anderson / Team Updraft
16 plugins6.4M+ total installs
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