Plugin Update Checker - Automatic update badges for all your plugins

MarkusMichalski

I'm lazy 😆
I don't want to manually visit GitHub repositories to check if there's a new version of my installed plugins. So I built a plugin that does it for me.

Plugin Update Checker automatically queries the GitHub Releases API for every installed plugin and shows a clickable update badge right in the plugin list (Admin Panel > Manage > Plugins).

Important: This works for ALL plugins that have a GitHub URL in their plugin.php - not just plugins I developed. If the plugin author set a 'url' => 'https://github.com/...' in the metadata and publishes GitHub Releases, you'll see the badge.

Git Repository of the plugin: https://github.com/markus-michalski/osticket-plugin-update-check

KevinTheJedi

MarkusMichalski

Just to note, this isn't going to work too well with core plugins. Plugin versions are seldom updated so even if there is a new plugin your mods won't help much; only if we force a new version every release.

Cheers.