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Easy Updates Manager

Manage all your WordPress updates, including individual updates, automatic updates, logs, and loads more. This also works very well with WordPress Mul …

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Open evidence

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92.8% of this page's analysis has direct source links.

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Download Momentum

180 days
205.2K 19.0K 979.4% 362.9K

Related Opportunities

5 markets
Needs sharper proof Disable Updates: Hosting operations and site health hosting operations and site health · final 67.8 · proof partial Needs sharper proof Update Control: Hosting operations and site health hosting operations and site health · final 64.7 · proof not collected Needs sharper proof Easy Updates Manager: Hosting operations and site health hosting operations and site health · final 60.5 · proof not collected Needs sharper proof Disable Updates Manager: Hosting operations and site health hosting operations and site health · final 59.9 · proof not collected Needs sharper proof Updates Manager: Hosting operations and site health hosting operations and site health · final 59.9 · proof not collected

Source Evidence

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complaint support · high severity · relevance 1.0
FluentToolkit 2.0 breaks compatibility with EUM

FluentToolkit 2.0 breaks compatibility with EUM: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor disable updates health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
Investigate Pain card complete hosting operations and site health Evidence linked to opportunity
FluentToolkit 2.0 breaks compatibility with EUM Hi there, Fluentkit (2.x) breaks the Easy Updates Manager plugin.
mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.95
Automatic update succeeds, but then gets rolled back. – Ninja Forms

Automatic update succeeds, but then gets rolled back. – Ninja Forms: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

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– Ninja Forms Often (perhaps always) when there is an update to Ninja Forms plugin, I get an email from Easy Updates saying that the update failed.
mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.95
Kadence Blocks pro does not auto update

Kadence Blocks pro does not auto update: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Could it be related to the PHP execution time of 300 seconds?
mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.95
Background Update Failed

Background Update Failed: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Background Update Failed I have Easy Updates Manager Version 9.0.19 Current version of WordPress is Current version: 6.7.1 I am hosting on DreamHost I have my “wp_con” set to “false in my wp-congfig.php file define(‘DISABLE_WP_CRON’, false) Under Easy Update Manager the “Update logs” are empty Nothing ever gets written to the log When I force the plugins to
mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.95
Your website may have problems automatically updating plugins and themes.

Your website may have problems automatically updating plugins and themes.: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Your website may have problems automatically updating plugins and themes.
mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.94
Suggestion and issues Easy Updates Manager 9.0.19

Suggestion and issues Easy Updates Manager 9.0.19: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Suggestion and issues Easy Updates Manager 9.0.19 Hi, I hope you are well and thank you very much for this essential, precious plugin!
mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.94
Automatic updates break site layout?

Automatic updates break site layout?: users show bugs, performance, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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When I let Easy Updates Manager update the plugins on this site, the layout breaks.
mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.94
Update plugin created bogus message

Update plugin created bogus message: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

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I received an email announcing an update to the ‘Yoast SEO’ plugin.
neutral support · high severity · relevance 0.7
Block auto update but not the update notification of avaiable update

Block auto update but not the update notification of avaiable update: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

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I start to use this plugin because a theme and a plugin update was broke my website.
praise review · high severity · relevance 0.54
Very usefull!

Very usefull!: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Very usefull, sometime the update of Mailpoet plugin cause a site crash, I prefer to keep it with manual update others are set to automatic update.

Competitor Context

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Disable Updates for WordPress Core, Plugins and Themes rising challenger · intel 73.2 · weakness 20.4
rising challenger
1 source link Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor updates health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source 1
Disable All WordPress Updates praise owner · intel 70.7 · weakness 30.8
praise owner
2 collected complaint signal(s) performance security 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source 1 source 2
WP Disable Automatic Updates praise owner · intel 58.9 · weakness 38.8
praise owner
stale update history 1 collected complaint signal(s) bugs compatibility 2 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor automatic updates health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source 1 source 2
WP Managed rising challenger · intel 58.8 · weakness 30.7
rising challenger
stale update history 1 source link Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor staging health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source 1
Ignore Or Disable Plugin Update rising challenger · intel 58.7 · weakness 14.6
rising challenger
1 source link Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity
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source 1
ACh Updates and Notices Manager rising challenger · intel 53.3 · weakness 30.9
rising challenger
stale update history 11 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source 1 source 2 source 3
Hide All Updates rising challenger · intel 50.3 · weakness 32.1
rising challenger
stale update history 4 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity
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source 1 source 2 source 3

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Collected Signals

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complaint FluentToolkit 2.0 breaks compatibility with EUM support · 2026-05-21T07:46:12+00:00 · high severity · disable updates

FluentToolkit 2.0 breaks compatibility with EUM: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: FluentToolkit 2.0 breaks compatibility with EUM Hi there, Fluentkit (2.x) breaks the Easy Updates Manager plugin.
bugs compatibility support setup hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor disable updates health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
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mixed Automatic updates break site layout? support · 2026-05-04T12:28:00+00:00 · high severity · disable updates

Automatic updates break site layout?: users show bugs, performance, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: When I let Easy Updates Manager update the plugins on this site, the layout breaks.
bugs performance support setup hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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mixed MPSUM_Utils::maybe_deactivate_free_version is very slow support · 2026-04-21T10:37:39+00:00 · medium severity · disable updates

MPSUM_Utils::maybe_deactivate_free_version is very slow: users show bugs, performance, pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: MPSUM_Utils::maybe_deactivate_free_version is very slow Per title – I have been tracing down slow page load times on our WP multisite install, we have quite a lot of plugins available, about 300+ or so.
bugs performance pricing support hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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praise Very usefull! (5 stars) review · 2026-04-13T16:54:46+00:00 · high severity · disable updates

Very usefull!: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Very usefull, sometime the update of Mailpoet plugin cause a site crash, I prefer to keep it with manual update others are set to automatic update.
bugs value hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor disable updates health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
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mixed PHP deprecation warning when auto-updating core WordPress version support · 2026-03-25T11:29:34+00:00 · medium severity · disable updates

PHP deprecation warning when auto-updating core WordPress version: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: PHP deprecation warning when auto-updating core WordPress version The following warnings are being triggered in the feedback() function in /wp-admin/includes/class-automatic-upgrader-skin.php when the core WordPress version auto-updates using this plugin: str_contains(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($haystack) of type string is deprecated trim(): Passing nu
bugs compatibility support setup hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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praise Amazing tool (5 stars) review · 2026-03-18T06:17:10+00:00 · medium severity · disable updates

Amazing tool: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Amazing tool Easy of use, lightweight, powerful features at no cost.
missing feature easy performance hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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neutral This string with esc_html_e also has echo support · 2026-03-15T07:32:55+00:00 · medium severity · disable updates

This string with esc_html_e also has echo: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: This string with esc_html_e also has echo : https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/stops-core-theme-and-plugin-updates/tags/9.0.20/includes/MPSUM_Admin_Core.php#L322 Thanks.
bugs compatibility support hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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neutral Enable/Disable All Updates from WP-CLI command support · 2026-03-12T15:24:52+00:00 · low severity · disable updates

Enable/Disable All Updates from WP-CLI command: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Enable/Disable All Updates from WP-CLI command I was wondering if there is a wp cli command for your plugin to toggle the Enable All Updates to ON and then back to Off while NOT altering any other plugin settings?
missing feature hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor disable updates health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
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mixed Update plugin created bogus message support · 2026-02-03T22:57:53+00:00 · high severity · disable updates

Update plugin created bogus message: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I received an email announcing an update to the ‘Yoast SEO’ plugin.
security bugs compatibility support hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor disable updates health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
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praise Works perfect (5 stars) review · 2026-01-26T07:46:42+00:00 · medium severity · disable updates

Works perfect: users praise reliable, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Works perfect Men like you do the job others can’t apparently do Men like you do the job others can’t apparently do
reliable quality hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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neutral Deprecated PHP support · 2026-01-09T05:36:46+00:00 · low severity · disable updates

Deprecated PHP: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Deprecated PHP Hello, I am using WordPress ver.
compatibility hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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praise Very helpful plugin (5 stars) review · 2026-01-05T10:15:43+00:00 · medium severity · disable updates

Very helpful plugin: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Very helpful plugin I used this on all my WordPress sites, and it’s nice that you can pick and choose which plugins you want auto-updated.
support hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor disable updates health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
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mixed Your website may have problems automatically updating plugins and themes. support · 2025-12-18T10:33:22+00:00 · high severity · disable updates

Your website may have problems automatically updating plugins and themes.: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Your website may have problems automatically updating plugins and themes.
security bugs compatibility missing feature hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor disable updates health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
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mixed Kadence Blocks pro does not auto update support · 2025-12-15T20:57:34+00:00 · high severity · disable updates

Kadence Blocks pro does not auto update: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Could it be related to the PHP execution time of 300 seconds?
security bugs compatibility missing feature hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor disable updates health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
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praise Great plugin! (5 stars) review · 2025-12-11T10:16:57+00:00 · medium severity · disable updates

Great plugin!: users praise easy, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Great plugin!
easy quality hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor disable updates health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
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mixed Automatic Updates Have Stopped Working support · 2025-12-08T20:13:00+00:00 · medium severity · disable updates

Automatic Updates Have Stopped Working: users show bugs, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Automatic Updates Have Stopped Working For the past couple of months, the updates have stopped working on about 15 of my sites.
bugs support setup value hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor disable updates health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
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mixed Plugin reported updated, but deactivated !! support · 2025-11-09T03:23:20+00:00 · medium severity · disable updates

Plugin reported updated, but deactivated !!: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: The Update manager updated one of my plugins (Oxygen page builder) and after the update the plugin became deactivated and the entire website stopped working.
bugs compatibility missing feature support hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor disable updates health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
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praise Great product (5 stars) review · 2025-11-04T17:24:28+00:00 · medium severity · disable updates

Great product: users praise easy, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Great product great product, easy to use great product, easy to use
easy quality hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor disable updates health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
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mixed Automatic update succeeds, but then gets rolled back. – Ninja Forms support · 2025-11-02T18:00:55+00:00 · high severity · disable updates

Automatic update succeeds, but then gets rolled back. – Ninja Forms: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: – Ninja Forms Often (perhaps always) when there is an update to Ninja Forms plugin, I get an email from Easy Updates saying that the update failed.
bugs compatibility performance missing feature hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor disable updates health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
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praise Its Just Great (5 stars) review · 2025-10-06T04:12:55+00:00 · medium severity · disable updates

Its Just Great: users praise reliable, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Its Just Great Works!
reliable quality hosting operations and site health Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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