Use the Beta Tester Plugin. Be sure to set it to use bleeding edge nightlies, so that you get the pre-releases. Also: once a new major version is final-released, be sure to change the Plugin’s settings back.
What you’re doing at the moment is okay, but there are far far better ways to do it. The problem of man in the middle attacks here is that to insert yourself between wordpress.org and a server at a data centre is no easy task, so this scenario is very unlikely. However If you abandon … Read more
WordPress will check twice a day ( 12 hours ). This time can drift because WordPress doesn’t use traditional server cronjobs but cheap cronjobs which rely on user actions to trigger them such as viewing a page. So it could be 13 hours for when the updates are trigger but it still won’t run automatically, … Read more
Can I see an estimate or a guess-timate for a WordPress 5.0 release? 5.0 won’t be released until Gutenberg is done, and “this year” is as specific as anyone’s gotten for that. At some stage it was supposed to be early this year, but it’s already April and there’s still a fair bit to go. … Read more
I have not found a way to change the frequency that is why I use WP-CLI for updating WordPress, plugins, themes and language files. Anyway I prefer to do it scheduled on a defined time e.g. nightly. With a Cronjob you can execute as many times a day you want. I use this commands: cd … Read more
Blocking the server from your hosts to prevent auto updating won’t hide notifications in the back office. You have to add some code in your functions.php file. The answer you are looking for is perfectly explained here You should add these 3 portions of code at the bottom of you functions.php file : The first … Read more
I would formulate your requirements like this: repository should capture complete and precise state of site updates should be tested locally and pushed to production database update events should run in production reliably Sticking with Git alone that would indeed mean that you need to install updates locally and commit them into repository. As for … Read more
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/42345 After a lot of digging and following segfaults in strace and parsing out apache core dumps (and enlisting some outside help from a much more knowledgeable Linux guy) I dug this up on WordPress’s site. The short answer to the problem is that there is an issue with PHP5 and libssh2 that was introduced … Read more
There is no native mechanism for WP to check for updates from non-official resources. Some plugins/theme have such functionality of their own for themselves. If you want to implement such checks for arbitrary plugins/themes (coded without such in mind) it is not impossible, but will take loads of custom code and handling different possible sources … Read more
Create a local repository in Git (or SVN) for the plugin, and each time an update happens: merge the changes into your adjusted version, test it in your local copy of the production site, then push your updated code to your site. But much better would it be to send your improvements to the plugin … Read more