WordPress Updates – Changelog Icons

  • Having a site running with e.g. 50 plugins installed it’s a full time job to regularly go through all the updates and look into each plugin’s changelog if this update is important or not.

    For example, often I just want to know if there is a security venerability or bug fix available but I don’t care about new features or tweaks.

    Updating plugins is generally risky therefore I suggest the following feature:

    Let developers display with e.g. an icon or a color if this update is important or not or what type of update it is.

    If a plugin update has e.g. a bug fix, some tweaks and a dozen new features: display 3 separate icons next to the version number.
    If a there is an important security for for a plugin: highlight it in the update list e.g. with a red background and maybe even create an alert on the dashboard.

    What do you think about this time saving feature?

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  • The problem that I’d have with this is… who would decide waht’s important and not important? What if the author thinks that a security hole that they’ve found isn’t important becasue it hasn’t been reported to them yet, or another author that thinks that a small feature change is amazingly important because it will help people to upgrade to the latst version.

    You’d still be looking at everything to see what has actually been updated and what the changes are. The icons would be more of an overview at best.

    On top of there’s a whole lot of users out there that won’t understand the difference between “Bug fixes”, “Security Update” and ‘Tweaks”. I know that you’re coming from more of a power-user point of view, but doing this would really just add in confusion for a standard user.

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