Updatronix

Core, plugins, and themes need regular updates, but WordPress forgets they ever happened. Updatronix remembers. It keeps a running record of every update on your website, and hands you more control over the update process: what updates, when, and how.

Updatronix is a precision plugin built on the native WordPress update engine instead of swapping it out. Your settings are written to WordPress’s own options, your auto-update choices keep working even if you remove the plugin one day. I built it for the people who look after WordPress sites for a living, it fits the way you already work.

Built for every user in their diversity of needs

• Solo site owners: Keep your site up to date and sleep at night. You’ll always know what changed.
• Freelancers: When a client asks what you’ve been up to, the answer is right there.
• Developers: Real control over auto-updates and scheduling, plus the full detail behind every event.
• Agencies: The same update policy you trust, running on every client site, each with its own log.

Features

Four tabs, one per concern.

Update logs

Every core, plugin, theme, and translation update is logged with full details. If something breaks after updates, you have a trusty starting point instead of a guess.

• The before and after version, what set it off, and how it ended.
• Filter by category, date, action, or user when the list gets long.
• Open any entry to read the details, including the exact error WordPress threw.

Need to hand it off? Export the log just as you’ve filtered it. Handy for briefing your team when something breaks, sending a maintenance report for a client, or sharing context with someone you’ve called in to help.

Auto-updates

WordPress 5.5 made auto-updates available across the dashboard. The controls then got scattered across half a dozen screens. This tab pulls them onto one page: how core updates itself, which plugins and themes update on their own, whether translations come along.

• Set core to every release, security and minor only, or fully manual.
• A switch for each plugin and theme, and one for translations.
• If a wp-config.php constant is overriding something, you’ll see which one.

Schedule

WordPress checks for updates twice a day. Usually that’s fine. When it isn’t, this feature hands you the timing, and lets a new release age a little before it reaches you.

• Pick how often WordPress checks (hourly, twice daily, daily, or weekly) and the time of day.
• Hold automatic installs after a release shows up.
• Skip the bad ones. If a plugin ships a broken update and then a quick fix, a short hold means you get the fix and miss the mess.
• A notice appears on the Updates, Plugins, and Themes screens whenever a hold is active.

Settings

How long the log sticks around, who gets the update emails WordPress sends, and the master switch for those emails when you’d rather not see them at all.

• Set up log retention policy.
• Send WordPress update emails to the desired recipient.
• Per-event filters: core, plugin and theme, debug summary, technical alerts.
• One switch silences every WordPress update notification email, recovery mode excepted, to prevent self-lockout.

Updatronix 3000

Somewhere in a neon-lit server room, the next version is booting.

Updatronix 3000 is the Pro edition coming soon. Extending Updatronix, with additional features for developers, power users, and agencies.

• Developer tools. Hooks, functions, and a REST API to plug Updatronix into your own pipeline. Push events to your own dashboards, trigger backups, automate maintenance reports, imagine whatever you want, and improve your workflow with a solid foundation.
• Update Shield. Checks PHP compatibility, flags abandoned plugins, version control protection.
• Update Flow. You are the expert, you know your stack: set the exact order your plugins update in.
• White Label. Your name on it, not mine. Clients see your agency, and the engine stays out of sight.

Coming soon. One payment, one license, one site, with updates for life. I’m not a fan of subscriptions, so there won’t be one. You buy it, you own it.

Privacy

Nothing leaves your site. No analytics, no telemetry, no third-party calls. Updatronix reads from WordPress, writes to your site’s storage, and that’s the whole network footprint. Delete the plugin and the log table goes with it, along with the settings.

Accessibility

Updatronix aims to be fully accessible to all of its users. If you run into a problem open a support thread on the plugin page and it’ll get fixed.

Multisite Support

Updatronix supports multisite networks. Network-activate it once, and a Super Admin manages settings, update history, schedule, and email controls from the Network Admin dashboard: everything shared across every site, with one unified update log.