Description
This plugin provides an easy way to get involved with beta testing WordPress.
Once installed it will enable you to upgrade your website to the latest Nightly, Beta, or Release Candidate at the click of a button using the built in upgrader.
By default once enabled it switches your website onto the point release update channel.
For the more adventurous there is the option to switch to the bleeding edge (trunk) of development.
Don’t forget to backup before you start!
Please enable auto-updates for this plugin to ensure future changes are properly handled with core updates.
Extra Settings
There is a setting to Skip successful autoupdate emails. It functions to disable sending emails to the admin user for successful autoupdates. Only emails indicating failures of the autoupdate process are sent.
The Extra Settings tab may contain choices for testing new features in trunk that require constants to be set. A checked feature will add a constant to the user’s wp-config.php
file in the format as follows:
define( 'WP_BETA_TESTER_{$feature}', true );
Unchecking the feature will remove the constant.
This plugin resets the constants in wp-config.php
on plugin activation and removes them on plugin deactivation. Use the filter wp_beta_tester_config_path
to return a non-standard wp-config.php
file path.
If no settings are present there is no testing to be done that requires this feature.
PRs are welcome on GitHub.
Screenshots
Installation
- Upload to your plugins folder, usually
wp-content/plugins/
- Activate the plugin on the plugin screen.
- Navigate to Tools … Beta Testing to configure the plugin.
- Under Mulitsite, navigate to Settings … Beta Testing to configure the plugin.
- Visit Dashboard … Upgrade (Or Tools … Upgrade in versions before 3.0) and update to the latest Beta Release.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“WordPress Beta Tester” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors“WordPress Beta Tester” has been translated into 24 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
Translate “WordPress Beta Tester” into your language.
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
3.0.10 / 2021-01-11
- re-write
WP_Beta_Tester::get_current_wp_release()
to check https://api.wordpress.org/core/stable-check/1.0/ - fix
WPBT_Core::get_next_versions()
if user on current release - tweak
WP_Beta_Tester::channel_switching_modification()
to work correctly with $wp_version <= $current_release and if on current release
3.0.9 / 2020-12-01
- add conditional for filter to fix
core_update_footer()
, fixed in r49708 - simplify some
preg_match()
calls - fix PHP warning
3.0.8 / 2020-11-28
- fix some PHP errors when using older versions of WP, for testing updates directly from these older versions like when using Core Rollback plugin
3.0.7 / 2020-11-24
- tweak to
channel_switching_modification()
3.0.6 / 2020-11-21
- improved flow between Bleeding edge and Point release
3.0.5 / 2020-11-18
- don’t show beta as a next version when on RC
3.0.4 / 2020-11-17
- fix to correctly downgrade from Bleeding edge to Point release nightlies.
- hide stream options other than Nightlies for Point release channel until new Updates API changes
- add settings for future Updates API above
- added
channel_settings_migrator()
for switching betweenBleeding edge
andPoint release
channels
3.0.1 – 3.0.3 / 2020-10-27
- fixed regex to get next versions
- really didn’t need to use
ReflectionClass
🤦♂️, thanks @pbiron - use
ReflectionClass
to get static variable$core_update_constant
fromclass WP_Beta_Tester
intoclass WPBT_Core
3.0.0 / 2020-10-23
- major refactor for new core update API, thanks @dd32!
- now requires PHP >5.6
- allows for overrides when using the
WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE
constant - update on-screen help
2.2.13 / 2020-09-05
- enclose
WPConfigTransformer
in try/catch
2.2.12 / 2020-08-10
- fix intermittent PHP warning #21
- deactivate and die if user attempting to run with
wordpress-develop
2.2.11 / 2020-08-01
- minor cleanup
2.2.10 / 2020-05-01
- sanitize, escape & ignore
- move multiline boolean operator to front of line, new guidelines in WPCS
- fix
correct_versions_for_downgrade()
for being on current release version
2.2.9 / 2020-03-24
- delete development RSS feed transient after core upgrade
2.2.8 / 2020-03-17 🍀
- add Dev Notes and Field Guide links to dashboard
- add text/link for bug reporting to trac
- add help tabs to screen
- arbitrarily changed settings page id from
wp_beta_tester
towp-beta-tester
😏
2.2.7 / 2020-03-02
- update trac link in callout for closed or reopened tickets on the milestone
- only show Beta Tester Settings page link in callout with appropriate privileges, using
manage_network_options
andmanage_options
- menu to Settings page also checks privileges as above
2.2.6 / 2020-02-25
- removed extra
</li>
in dashboard callout, 4th time’s the charm 😭
2.2.5 / 2020-02-25
- less greedy regex for matching release posts in RSS for dashboard callout
2.2.4 / 2020-02-25 🤦♂️
- added dashboard widget for network dashboard
2.2.3 / 2020-02-25
- add dashboard widget callout for testing
2.2.2 / 2020-02-22
- fix for strange Core API response where preferred version response contained the word ‘version’. We now grab the last word of that response
2.2.1 / 2020-02-20
- fix some i18n strings, thanks @pedro-mendonca
2.2.0 / 2020-02-19
- added support for updating to the beta/RC offer. Based on and with tons of help from @pbrion, thanks Paul 👏🏻
- fixed so a downgrade from ‘unstable’ to ‘point’ serves the correct download
- test and exit from Extra Settings if
wp-config.php
is not writeable
2.1.0 / 2019-09-17
- add extra setting to skip successful autoupdate emails
- add description to checkbox settings
- composer update
2.0.4
- add update version information to settings page text
2.0.3
- a11y fixes for settings tabs
- update
wp-cli/wp-config-transformer
2.0.2
- a11y fixes for checkbox, thanks @audrasjb
2.0.1
- fix for incorrect last updated message
2.0.0
- near complete re-write to use more OOPy practices
- put distinct process into separate classes
- allows for multiple settings tabs for addtional settings
1.2.6
- remove extraneous code
- add GitHub Plugin URI header
1.2.5
- fixed error message for downgrading version, thanks @andreas-andersson
1.2.4
- don’t use $GLOBALS
1.2.3
- updated a few strings and correct typos
- run through WPCS linter
- fixed translation strings to include HTML in context and properly escape with
wp_kses_post()
- fixed link to settings page under Multisite
1.2.2
- change wording from blog to website
1.2.0
- Escape output
- Indicate that Bleeding edge nightlies are trunk
- new screenshot
- code improvements from linter
1.1.2
- Remove anonymous function for PHP 5.2 compatibility.
1.1.1
- fixed PHP notice for PHP 7.1
- made URL scheme agnostic
1.1.0
- Fixed to work properly under Multisite.
1.0.2
- Update tested up to version to 4.7.
- Fix the location of the settings screen in Multisite (moved under Settings in Network Admin).
- Minor text fixes.
1.0.1
- Update tested up to version to 4.5.
- Fix PHP7 deprecated constructor notice.
- Change text domain to match the plugin slug.
- Update WordPress.org links to use HTTPS.
- Remove outdated bundled translations in favor of language packs.
1.0
- Update tested up to version to 4.2.
- Update screenshot.
- Fix a couple typos.