wprobot / rollback-auto-update

Rollback protection from a plugin update that results in a PHP fatal or error

Rollback Auto Update

• Contributors: afragen, costdev
• Author: WP Core Contributors
• License: MIT
• Requires at least: 5.9
• Requires PHP: 5.6
• Stable tag: main

Rollback protection from a plugin auto-update whose activation would result in a PHP fatal or error. This is part of the Rollback Update Failure feature project.

Description

Rollback protection from a plugin auto-update whose activation would result in a PHP fatal or error. This is part of the Rollback Update Failure feature project.

The Rollback Update Failure plugin must be installed and active.

Testing

To test you must have a plugin that is capable of being updated and whose update contains a PHP fatal error or warning upon activation.

The simplest way to test is to download, install, and activate this plugin and Git Updater. Then install the test plugin, Rollback Fatal Plugin, via WP-CLI with the following command.

wp plugin install https://github.com/afragen/rollback-fatal-plugin/archive/refs/heads/main.zip

If you wish to download the zip directly, you will need to unzip, rename the containing folder to remove the -main, re-zip, and then install via the Upload Plugin screen.

Once installed you will need to change the version number to 0 and comment out the code. After doing this you can activate the plugin, but you can leave it disabled. Set it to Enable auto-updates in the Plugins page.

If the test plugin is active and if the Rollback works, your site should not show a WSOD after the auto-update as the previous, commented plugin will still be the active plugin. You will still show a plugin update.

Plugins bulk update alphabetically based on the slug. Any plugin supposed to update after the fatal will not receive an auto-update until the fatal is fixed.

An email will be sent to the site admin upon an auto-update failure.