How to Force WordPress Plugins to Auto-Update

Today’s article will be a really short one but might be useful to some WordPress users.

In WordPress 3.7, WordPress had introduced automatic background updates feature to auto-update minor versions of WordPress core. This feature is enabled by default and users got nothing to do to enable it. Besides for WordPress core, this auto-update feature can also be enabled for plugins.

To auto-update all plugins in your site, you may use auto_update_plugin filter. Simply copy and paste the following snippet into your theme’s functions.php file or even better, site functionality plugin.

<?php

//* Force auto-updates for WordPress plugins

add_filter( 'auto_update_plugin', '__return_true' );

This feature can be useful and recommended if you’ve a site that you rarely log in and update. This snippet will auto-updates all plugins installed on your site once the newer versions are available.

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