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WordPress Beta Tester

by Peter Westwood on WordPress.org

Allows you to easily upgrade for testing the next versions of WordPress.

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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.

PRs are welcome on GitHub.

Active installations2K+
Weekly downloads
192-6.34%
Version3.6.4
Last updated7/11/2025
WordPress version3.1
Tested up to6.8.1
PHP version5.6
Tags
advancedbetatesting
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