Contributors: rtCamp, up1512001, danish17, AnuragVasanwala, aviral-mittal, rishavjeet, vishal4669, SushantKakade
Tags: OnePress, WordPress, Plugin Manager, CI/CD, WordPress Automation, WordPress Plugins
This plugin is licensed under the GPL v2 or later.
OneUpdate is a centralized plugin management solution designed for enterprises managing multiple WordPress sites through CI/CD workflows (like GitHub Actions). It streamlines plugin updates, installation, and management across multiple environments (development → staging → production) by automatically creating pull requests for all changes.
OneUpdate is a centralized plugin manager for WordPress. From a single governing site, you can:
- Install, update, and downgrade plugins (with access to the latest 5 versions).
- Activate, deactivate, and uninstall plugins across multiple sites.
- Manage public plugins from WordPress.org and private plugins uploaded securely to your S3 instance.
This makes it easier to keep plugins consistent, secure, and up to date across all your WordPress environments.
Managing plugin updates in a network of standalone sites in enterprise environments, where updates need to flow through multiple environments (develop → preprod → production), is a highly inefficient process. This can also lead to tech drift — brand sites diverging to such a level that managing them requires separate teams and effort.
OneUpdate solves this by:
- Centralizing Management: Single governing to manage plugins on all brand sites
- Automating PR Creation: Automatically creates pull requests for all environments
- Maintaining Git History: Uses single branch from base branch to prevent commit conflicts
- Enterprise-Ready: Built specifically for CI/CD-based WordPress deployments
- Reduced effort: Significantly reduce plugin management effort and time
- Streamlined workflows: Centralized management while maintaining site autonomy
- Stack consolidation: Helps brands converge on to a common stack of plugins, increasing compatibility and reusability
- Cost reduction: Ultimately, reduced efforts and reduced time = cost reduction
- Intuitive Plugin Browser: Admin interface with advanced search and filtering options
- Real-time Status Monitoring: Up-to-date information about plugin version and status
- Scalable Architecture: Handles both public (available on WordPress.org) and private plugins
- Dual Architecture Support: Works with WordPress multisite and standalone installations
- Secure API Integration: REST API with unique authentication keys for safe operations
- Bulk Operations: Update all plugins across multiple sites simultaneously
- Version Control: Install specific versions from the latest 5 available releases
- Site-Specific Actions: Activate, deactivate, install, or uninstall on selected sites
- Private Plugin Support: Upload and manage proprietary plugins
- Automated PR Creation: Generate pull requests for all changes across environments
| Requirement | Version |
|---|---|
| WordPress | >= 6.5 |
| PHP | >= 7.4 |
| Tested Up to | >= 6.8.2 |
| Stable Tag | 1.0 |
| Prerequisites | CI/CD managed sites (GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket) |
For detailed installation instructions, system requirements, and step-by-step configuration guides, please see our comprehensive Installation and Setup Guide.
Navigate to OneUpdate → Plugin Manager in your WordPress admin to access the centralized management interface.
- Click the 3 dot menu next to any plugin
- Select "Activate on sites" or "Deactivate on sites"
- Choose target sites and confirm
- Select "Change version/update" from the plugin menu
- Choose from the latest 5 available versions
- Select target sites for the update
- Select "Uninstall from sites" from the plugin menu
- Choose sites for plugin removal
- Confirm the action
Public Plugins:
- Click "Add Plugin" button
- Select "Public Plugin"
- Search any WordPress.org plugin
- Choose version and target sites
Private Plugins:
- Click "Add Plugin" → "Private Plugin"
- Upload plugin ZIP file
- Select installation sites
- Note: Uploaded files expire after 1 hour
- Use "Update All" to update all available plugins
- Applies only to WordPress.org plugins with available updates
- Filter by Status: Active, inactive, or update available
- Filter by Site: View plugins for specific sites
- Filter by Type: Public or private plugins
- Search: Search by plugin name and description
OneUpdate is actively developed and maintained by rtCamp.
- Repository: github.com/rtCamp/OneUpdate
- Contributing Guide: docs/CONTRIBUTING.md
- Development Guide: docs/DEVELOPMENT.md
We welcome contributions! Please read our contributing guidelines before submitting pull requests.
- Setup Phase: Install OneUpdate on governing site and all brand sites, then register brand sites with the governing site
- Plugin Management: Administrator manages plugins through the governing site dashboard
- Source Integration: Plugins are sourced from WordPress.org (public) or S3 (private)
- Automation: GitHub Actions workflows automatically create pull requests across all environments
- Deployment: Changes flow through your CI/CD pipeline (dev → staging → production)
Plugins are managed using a combination of GitHub Actions and WordPress REST APIs with comprehensive security checks.
Yes, plugins installed directly via GitHub will be tracked on the governing site, even if not added through OneUpdate.
There are no hard limits on the number of plugins you can manage from the governing site.
Yes, you can remove plugins from specific sites directly through the dashboard.
Private plugin uploads expire after 1 hour for security purposes. You'll need to re-upload if you want to use them after expiration.
- Verify governing site configuration
- Check network connectivity between sites
- Confirm REST API permissions
- Search functionality covers plugin names and descriptions only
- Author names and other properties are not searchable
- Ensure GitHub workflows are properly configured:
oneupdate-pr-creation.ymloneupdate-pr-creation-private.yml
- Verify GitHub PAT token permissions
- Check repository access rights
- API Connection Failures: Verify authentication keys and network connectivity
- S3 Upload Errors: Check S3 credentials and bucket permissions
- Workflow Failures: Review GitHub Actions logs for specific error details
- Issues & Bug Reports: GitHub Issues
- Feature Requests: GitHub Discussions
- Documentation: Project Wiki
This project is licensed under the GPL v2 or later - see the LICENSE file for details.
Made with ❤️ by rtCamp