MainWP Child establishes a secure link between your WordPress sites and your self-hosted MainWP Dashboard, simplifying site management.
- Installs
- 700,000+
- Rating
- 5.0 (71)
- Updated
- 2 days ago
Companion Auto Update
Manage all updates on your WordPress site. Stay in the know with several optional e-mail notifications and logs. For free.
- Active installs
- 40,000+
- #814 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 4.2M
- 4,232,707
- Downloads, 30 days
- 6.2K
- 1.5K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.8 / 5
- 105 reviews
- Last updated
- 7 months ago
- Mar 21, 2026
- Version
- 3.9.4
- 92 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | March 21, 2026Updated in the last year |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 6.9.11Older than WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 5.3.0 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.4 or newer |
| First published | May 23, 2016 |
| Support, last two months | 0 of 3 threads resolved (0%) |
Reviews
4.8 / 5 from 105 reviews
| 5 stars | 94 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 5 |
| 3 stars | 1 |
| 2 stars | 2 |
| 1 star | 3 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
Companion Auto Update is a powerful and completely free plugin that allows you to manage all the updates on your WordPress site. Our aim is to give you the best control over these updates and stay in the know at all times.
We understand that you might not always be able to check if your WordPress site has any updates that need to be installed. Especially when you maintain multiple websites keeping them up-to-date can be a lot of work. This plugin can help you with that. We’ll keep your site up-to-date and keep you posted about what’s happening and notify you when we need your help with something.
If you have a feature suggestion or idea you’d like to see in the plugin, we’d love to hear about it! Suggest a Feature
Main features
- Auto-updating for plugins, themes, core and translation files
- Set at what time you wish to update
- Filter plugins and themes to not be updated
- E-mail notifications about old software, pending updates and completed updates
- An update log with all updates
- Option to delay automatic updates with an x number of days
Full control over everything
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
Check our website for the FAQ
https://codeermeneer.nl/documentation/auto-update/faq-auto-updater/
What features can I expect to see in the future?
Your feedback is what made this plugin what is and what it’ll become so keep the feedback coming! To see what features you’ve suggested and what we’re working on read our blogpost here
What’s the difference between WordPress 5.5 and this plugin?
WordPress 5.5 was released recently and it packs tons of new features. One of those features is auto-updates for plugins and themes. Something Companion Auto Update does too.
So obviously, some of you wondered what the difference would be between the default WordPress method and the one offered by Companion Auto Update and I figured I’d quickly write a blog about it, explaining the differences.
Latest changelog entry
📅 Release date: March 21, 2026
- 🐞 Fixed: Fatal error on plugin activation
Screenshots
Full control over what to update and when to recieve notifications 
Disable auto-updating for certain plugins and/or themes 
Advanced scheduling options for updating and notifcations 
Keep track of updates with the update log
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin. The author takes donations at their donate page.