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Opened 11 years ago

Closed 9 years ago

Last modified 7 years ago

#24111 closed enhancement (maybelater)

Inform user when plugin was updated (how many dates ago was the update released)

Reported by: daedalon's profile Daedalon Owned by:
Milestone: Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version:
Component: Upgrade/Install Keywords: needs-patch
Focuses: administration Cc:

Description

On wp-admin/update-core.php when there are new plugin updates, it would be useful to mention when the update was released. This would make life easier for admins who have a policy of only installing updates of certain maturity, eg. at least 7 days old. Such policies are used to ensure updating only to versions that don't introduce critical bugs.

Currently the age of the update is shown only by clicking to open update details in modal window, which then needs to be closed. So in order to check for the respective ages of 7 updates, admin needs to click back-and-forth 14 times to decide which plugins to update. Because everyone hates breaking a stable site, this effort required leads to some admins to go through the list less often, and then run less up-to-date plugins, which can cause problems in itself.

Current output of plugin list:

Contact Form 7
You have version 3.3.3 installed. Update to 3.4. [View version 3.4 details.]
Compatibility with WordPress 3.5.1: 100% (according to its author)

Suggested output:

Contact Form 7
You have version 3.3.3 installed. Update to 3.4. [View version 3.4 details.]
Compatibility with WordPress 3.5.1: 100% (according to its author). This update was released 9 days ago.

Change History (4)

#2 @nacin
10 years ago

  • Component changed from Plugins to Upgrade/Install
  • Focuses administration added

#3 @chriscct7
9 years ago

  • Keywords needs-patch added
  • Milestone Awaiting Review deleted
  • Resolution set to maybelater
  • Status changed from new to closed

Closing as maybelater. Complete lack of interest on the feature on the ticket over the last 2 years. Feel free to reopen when more interest re-emerges (particularly if there's a patch)

This ticket was mentioned in Slack in #meta by sergey. View the logs.


7 years ago

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