WP Updates Notifier
Sends email to notify you if there are any updates for your WordPress site. Can notify about core, plugin and theme updates.
4.2(35 reviews)
·30K+ active installs·Updated 6 years agoAs of April 2026, WP Updates Notifier is a WordPress admin plugin with 30K+ active installations and a 4.2/5 rating from 35 reviews. It has been downloaded 236K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 6 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Loginizer.
4.2/535 reviews
30K+active installs
236K+total downloads
15 yearssince 2011
Overview
Monitors your WordPress installation for core, plugin and theme updates and emails you when they are available. This plugin is ideal if you don’t login to your WordPress admin regularly or you support a client’s website.
Features
- Set the interval of how often to check for updates; hourly, twice daily or daily.
- Sets WordPress to check for updates more often meaning you get to know about updates sooner.
- Get emailed about core, plugin and theme updates.
- Chose if you want to be notified about active only themes and plugins updates.
- Remove upgrade nag message to non-admin users.
- For advanced users there are a number of filters and actions you can use. More coming soon.
This plugin is a fork of Update Notifier. This plugin was forked because there seemed to be no further developme…
Ratings & Reviews
4.235 reviews
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Recent Reviews
Essential plugin to manage many sites
by WebePc Gianluca Molina·6 years ago
A unique plugin of its kind but which I consider very useful and fundamental if you have to manage many websites (as in my case) in order to have a “memory” of the plugins to be updated!
EXCELLENT!
Out-of date and not fully working
by kudlav·8 years ago
It’s ok for theme and plugins notifications, but notification about core updates does’t work for more than one year!
This plugin probably won’t recieve an update anymore.
- This topic was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by kudlav.
Simple and effective
by rgallini·9 years ago
I get notified whenever a plugin needs to be updated. Perfect!
Just Works
by Mel - Jett Web Development·9 years ago
Simple, no excess fluff. I like the email notifications, points to Details, Changelog on each plugin, states compatibility.
Thanks
Works great!
by Anonymous User·9 years ago
Should be installed by default in WordPress!
Download Trends
Today: 14Yesterday: 13This week: 127Period total: 7K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.1+ requiredTested up to 5.3.21 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.6
90.5%
v1.4
9.3%
v1.3
0.2%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.6
- Added slack notifications and testing button
- Separated notifications so they can be email, slack, or both
- Reorganized settings page
- Changed validation to not turn on notifications for email or slack unless required fields are valid
- Test email or slack message are now triggered with a temporary transient
…and 1 more changes
Contributors
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