UUPD

Universal Updater for WordPress Plugins & Themes

UUPD is a simple, flexible, and GitHub-friendly update framework for WordPress developers. It lets you host your own plugin updates using JSON — on GitHub, static sites, or custom PHP endpoints.

🔗 View on GitHub

🚀 Try It Yourself

Download the working test plugin below. Install it in WordPress, and it will automatically update when a new release is pushed via GitHub:

⬇ Download Example Plugin

Update metadata is served from:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stingray82/example-plugin/main/uupd/index.json

📦 How It Works

Include includes/updater.php in your plugin
Generate an index.json with metadata
Point your plugin’s updater to the JSON URL
Push updates using GitHub Releases or ZIPs

🧠 Why Use UUPD?

No dependence on WordPress.org
CDN-friendly — works with GitHub Pages, raw.githubusercontent, Cloudflare, etc.
No account needed, no central registry — just your code

Created by Really Useful Plugins. Open-source & GPL-2.0-or-later licensed.