WordPress Beta Tester

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.

There is a setting to Skip bundled plugins and themes . It functions to disable the installation of any plugins or themes that are bundled with the Core update.

PRs are welcome on GitHub .

1. 01Upload to your plugins folder, usually wp-content/plugins/
2. 02Activate the plugin on the plugin screen.
3. 03Navigate to Tools … Beta Testing to configure the plugin.
4. 04Under Mulitsite, navigate to Settings … Beta Testing to configure the plugin.
5. 05Visit Dashboard … Upgrade (Or Tools … Upgrade in versions before 3.0) and update to the latest Beta Release.