Excluding Plugins for Updates, Allowing Automatic WordPress Core Minor Updates when using git, Booster for WooCommerce Issues

This all started out simply checking on an issue and updating plugins, nothing major should happen right?

Unfortunately this site the person who owns it doesn’t want to pay for plugin updates unless they need to. So I had to implement some code to hide the plugins that would essentially never get updated. Otherwise it would consistently say 10 plugins would need to be updated.

Same site, git is used for tracking some custom plugins. Unfortunately WordPress will give this message and not process minor updates which might include WordPress security updates.

The easy fix is to use the automatic_updates_is_vcs_checkout filter.

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