WordPress Tookit 4.7 is the third major WordPress Toolkit update in 2020. It’s also the first update developed and released by a team working completely remotely due to the current lock down. We’re happy to announce that we were still able to deliver as planned. Read on to learn what was added in this release.
Update of Paid Plugins & Themes
Most WordPress agencies and web developers are using paid plugins and themes in their projects. Same goes for WordPress admins who’re at least semi-serious about their site. The main problem with such plugins and themes was that they’re not hosted on wordpress.org. Thus, WordPress Toolkit couldn’t detect their updates and install them. This deficiency led to a miserable user experience where you could update a bunch of plugins and themes via WordPress Toolkit. But for the rest, you had to go through WordPress itself. The Smart Updates feature also couldn’t update such plugins and themes, hence limiting its usefulness.
I’m not exaggerating when I say that this was the main known showstopper on the critical user path in WordPress Toolkit. This is why I’m very happy to announce that we have removed this showstopper in WordPress Toolkit 4.7. If you can see and install the plugin or theme update in WordPress itself, you can do the same in WordPress Toolkit now. Let’s take a closer look.
Here’s how these updates are displayed in WordPress itself:
WordPress Toolkit displays these updates in the same way it displays updates for plugins and themes from wordpress.org:
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