WordPress Beta Tester
Allows you to easily upgrade for testing the next versions of WordPress.
4(47 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 4 months agoAs of April 2026, WordPress Beta Tester is a WordPress beta plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 4/5 rating from 47 reviews. It has been downloaded 543K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.9+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Downloads are up 31% this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: Elementor Beta (Developer Edition).
4/547 reviews
2.0K+active installs
0%resolved
17 yearssince 2009
Overview
This plugin provides an easy way to get involved with beta testing WordPress.
Once installed it will enable you to upgrade your website to the latest Nightly, Beta, or Release Candidate at the click of a button using the built in upgrader.
By default once enabled it switches your website onto the point release update channel.
For the more adventurous there is the option to switch to the bleeding edge (trunk) of development.
Don’t forget to backup before you start!
Please enable auto-updates for this plugin to ensure future changes are properly handled with core updates.
Extra Settings
There is a setting to Skip successful autoupdate emails. It functions to disable sending emails to the admin user for successful autoupdates. Only emails indicating failures of the autoupdate process…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Working great
by Stefano Lissa·5 months ago
Perfect for developers to test plugins with new versions of WP.
Great tool
by NETT.PRO·12 months ago
Seems to work as expected. Great tool to test plugins before release and ensure they are compatible with the next WordPress release. So thank you for the plugin.
Mandatory for a plugin developer!
by Georges·1 year ago
As a plugin developer, I need this extension to be able to test my plugin against future versions before the officiale release.
What a fantastic facility!
by Andrew Palmer·1 year ago
This is just brilliant. It allows anyone to test out the beta and see if everything works – Nice work here! I only found out about this from the WPBUILDS podcast – needs more promotion – its fantastic!
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by JUAN DIEGO JACOBO HERNANDEZ·2 years ago
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Download Trends
Today: 175Yesterday: 280This week: 1KPeriod total: 40K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.9+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
Version Adoption
v4.0
75.4%
v3.6
12.0%
Other
6.5%
v3.5
6.1%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
4.0.0 / 2025-11-07
- refactor to use
core_version_check_query_argsfilter for simplicity and compatibility - remove checks on
WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE - update to require WordPress 4.9
Contributors
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