Give users the option to automatically install language updates & translations

[NekoJonez]

Currently, we can set plugin & theme updates automatically. I think it would be good to also give users the chance to have language packs and updates to translations get updated automatically.

Since now they go along with updates to themes or plugins.

And what if a website doesn't get a few days of no plugin/theme updates...? Then the user needs to manually go update.

So, I think it would be nice if we add a little checkbox or something that users can click if they want to receive automatic language/translation updates without having to wait until it goes along with a theme or plugin update.

This could help with updates when typo's where fixed or bugs that were caused by e.g. a wrong variable in a translation.

[ocean90]

Thanks for the suggestion! This is actually already handled by WordPress core and the API. Translation and language-pack updates auto-install by default and don’t wait for a plugin/theme/core update.

The behavior is independent of the plugin/theme auto-update toggles; it only stops if background updates are disabled wholesale (DISALLOW_FILE_MODS, AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED, VCS checkout, or no working cron).