Provides a facility for distributing updates and handling licences and renewal reminders for your own WordPress plugins
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.
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…
| WordPress | 5.5+ requiredTested up to 7.0 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
…and 2 more changes
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