Shiny Updates

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Shiny Updates

by Konstantin Obenland

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Description

Shiny Updates is a WordPress Core Feature Plugin.

It replaces The Bleak Screen of Sadness™ (example) with a simpler and more straight forward experience when installing, updating, and deleting plugins and themes.
Progress updates for these actions don’t add a benefit, they are disruptive and confusing. Shiny Updates deals with these details behind the scenes, leaving users with clear actions and results.

Development for this plugin takes place at GitHub.
To report bugs or feature requests, please use Github issues.

Testing

We need help testing the user flows! Please install the Shiny Updates plugin, run the tests below, and share your feedback in the #feature-shinyupdates channel in Slack or create an issue on GitHub.

Update core

  1. If you have any themes or plugins that need updating, update them. If you don’t have any that need updating, you can edit the them and change the version number to something older. Once saved, they will show as needing an update.
  2. Update one specific item, a theme or a plugin.
  3. Try updating all items in the table.
  4. Share your feedback. Or if you found a bug, create an issue on GitHub.

Questions

  1. What were the noticeable differences in the new install/update/activate/delete process compared to the old one without Shiny Updates?
  2. How did installing and activating a plugin or theme go? Was it difficult or easy? Was it faster or slower than expected?
  3. Do you have any further comments or suggestions?
  1. Existing plugin install process, showing The Bleak Screen of Sadness.

    Existing plugin install process, showing The Bleak Screen of Sadness.

  2. Plugin install process with Shiny Updates activated.

    Plugin install process with Shiny Updates activated.

Amazing!

By Cadu de Castro Alves (cadudecastroalves) on June 2, 2017

This is far and away the better installation process experience. Looks like any modern app store. Or, in this case, "Plugin Store". Worthy of all 5 stars. Looking forward to see it merged into the core! Congratulations!

Perfect

By Anselm (aurban) on September 3, 2016

Perfect

Really loved this plugin!

By Lu Is (kalimanmx) on September 3, 2016

What a nicer experience with plugins!

Thanks for this awesome plugin. This should be the regular way to use the plugin section!

I can't understand any rating below 5 stars.

NO roll-back?

By wpvince on September 3, 2016

I was really hoping this would have ability to roll-back an install or update.
Never mind, I'll keep dreaming ...

Great job

By Mosche (mosche) on September 3, 2016

I really like this plugin. It saves a lot of time.
I do miss the ability to immediately activate a plugin once it's installed.
But it's definitely faster. To install new plugins.
Keep up the good work.

Nice

By paulnl on September 3, 2016

Nice and should be in the core.

Not sure if it shows errors if an install goes wrong, does it?

Need more features

By John (DPINC) on September 3, 2016

Overall it is good but need email notification and individual theme/plugin enable/disable updates

Love to see this in core

By Yakti-R (yakti-ruud) on September 3, 2016

The user experience is just so much better.

Wow!

By XPOL555 on September 3, 2016

This should be a wordpress integrated feature!

Needs to be in core

By Mitch Menghi (menkom) on September 3, 2016

Why isnt this in core, who wants to see the ugly installation screen ? the only thing i would be worried about and hopefully is considered if there is a problem with installation does it give a valuable error ? other than that we must get rid of the ugly install screen's

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