Title: Several things Last modified: September 8, 2020 --- # Several things * [eitanc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eitanc/) * (@eitanc) * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/several-things/) * Hi, * I’m now at version 3.7.0. * 1. Why do I seen the message to manually update the plugin’s database? Why is this process manual? why can’t you run it as needed or scheduled by yourselves? as part of the plugin’s code? * 2. Please enable a more granular notification threshold regarding outdated objects( i.e. wp, plugins and themes) – meaning let the user choose for each object how to treat it – don’t alert about outdated, alert about outdated but let us set the threshold using various options like – not compatible with the current WP version and/or was not updated within the last X months/years. I guess this will be part of the filter page. * 3. Consider adding a warning/block feature if an update process *will* cause any of the above outdate thresholds, hence prevent the update process from making the site go into a possible unstable/incompatible state, and of course – email user about this warning/block * 4. The new date-time text in the email has this bug, the text of “‐”: ” Time of update: 08/09/2020 ‐ 16:00 “ Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * Thread Starter [eitanc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eitanc/) * (@eitanc) * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/several-things/#post-13376807) * Adding: In the email, for plugins (and I guess for other types) that are *not* in the WP plugins site you show: ” – Post Notification tested up to: ” Instead of an empty values put a system text like “This was not found in the WordPress web site, hence it may either be a non-public or it is not being actively developed anymore – which makes it a high risk for functional and/or security issues to your site, so you should consider disabling and deleting it from your site” * Thanks. * Thread Starter [eitanc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eitanc/) * (@eitanc) * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/several-things/#post-13378076) * Also, you send the outdated items email every few hours… this is bothering… please set a default of, say, once a week and let users change the recurrence schedule, or only once. Thanks. * [Marc Bernard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcfbe/) * (@marcfbe) * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/several-things/#post-13378567) * +1 * Thread Starter [eitanc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eitanc/) * (@eitanc) * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/several-things/#post-13378712) * Also notice – at the GUI you state “Be notified of plugins that have not been tested with your current version of WordPress.” but at the email the text is “ You have plugins on your WordPress site at [https://food.caspi.org.il](https://food.caspi.org.il) that have not been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress. The following plugins have not been tested with WordPress 5.5.1:” * There is a mismatch here, the meaning is not identical – “not been tested with your current version of WordPress” is not exactly “have not been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress”. Be accurate and match what the code is doing. * Plugin Author [Papin Schipper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/papin/) * (@papin) * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/several-things/#post-13392641) * Hi, * 1. We’ve tried doing this automatic but it was causing issues for a lot of users, doing it manually fixed the issues for everyone so we’ve left it at that. * 2. Sounds like a good plan, we’ll add it to the to-do list * 3. Sounds like a good plan, we’ll add it to the to-do list * 4. We’ll have it patched in the next update * 5. We’ve changed it to “Unknown” for the next update and will consider making it better in another update * 6. You can change how often emails will be sent at the Intervals section of the plugin * 7. Oops, missed that. We’ll have it patched in the next update - This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by [Papin Schipper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/papin/). * Thread Starter [eitanc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eitanc/) * (@eitanc) * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/several-things/#post-13392674) * Thanks. * 1. But this db update is manual – what do we lose if we don’t update it? I do not go very often into the admin pages * 6. Not the same. The general schedule intervals is for updating the plugins – something many of use will wish to do quite often, but knowing an object is not recent/compatible – is something we will wish to be reminded once or in far apart intervals. I suggest you will use a Hierarchy model – so the main interval will be the default, but at the page of “settings per object” – you will add an option for various exclusions/specific values, so there we will be able to set this * Thread Starter [eitanc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eitanc/) * (@eitanc) * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/several-things/#post-13392761) * Meaning – I don’t wish that just be because I wish that my plugins will be updated as soon as every 1 hour – I will also get an email every one hour that I have an outdated plugin. Sometime I know I have it and I wish to keep it for now, even if it is outdated. * I just need a way to either give this event a different notification schedule or exclude it entirely from this alert. Thanks. * Plugin Author [Papin Schipper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/papin/) * (@papin) * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/several-things/#post-13392783) * The db update is only important for using new features and in order to use new features you’ll have to set them up anyway so not updating the database will not break anything really. * Oh yeah that makes sense, I’ll add it to the to-do list but it won’t be part of the upcoming patch. * Thread Starter [eitanc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eitanc/) * (@eitanc) * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/several-things/#post-13392834) * Great, thanks. 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