Title: Update a plugin without publishing it on wordpress.org/plugins (for plugin devs)
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Update a plugin without publishing it on wordpress.org/plugins (for plugin devs)

 *  [Ivan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ivan_blendering/)
 * (@ivan_blendering)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-a-plugin-without-publishing-it-on-wordpressorgplugins-for-plugin-devs/)
 * Hi all,
 * If i am a plugin creator and i want to share my plugin with my grand-mother. 
   How would i set about making it update automaticaly (i mean with a warning message
   saying ‘update available for plugin…”) so that users using my plugin would not
   have to upload my plugin files to their server each time there is a change/update?
 * One way would be with [https://wordpress.org/plugins/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/)
   where i upload the new update and all of the users using the plugin will receive
   a message for updating… But the problem is that i don’t want to make my plugin
   public, a bit like the payed plugins.
 * Do you have any idea how they (payed plugins) in order to make it happen ?
 * Thank you very much for reading,
    Hope you help me,
 * Ivan

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