As of yesterday, UpdraftPlus has passed three million downloads at wordpress.org – slightly under 6 months since we passed two million. The million before that took just over 8 months, so we’re still accelerating.
Download numbers are slightly artificial, as you can force more downloads by making more frequent releases. But, if you look at active installs – we’re still at the top in that too, with over half a million currently active sites.
Much more is planned, and we want to grow further still – so you’ve got every reason to keep it UpdraftPlus.
David Anderson (founder, lead developer, UpdraftPlus)
Congratulations on your downloads. You have worked very hard and deserve all your success.
On my WP dashboard the following sales/ad line is at the top of the page all the time.
The only one of my plugins to do this.
‘Your paid access to UpdraftPlus support has expired. To regain your access, please renew.’
I thought that if we had the pro version purchased prior to Sept /13 we would not see ads.
I feel very fortunate to have purchased at that time.
Thanks again for the great software and your continued improvement of the WP plugin.
Hi Brian,
Thank you for being with us since the early days and for your kind words!
If you purchased before Aug 2013 (I forget the exact date within that month), then at that time we sold all purchases bundled with a) lifetime access to updates to new versions and b) 12 months access to our personal support – https://updraftplus.com/lifetime-updates-policy/ . The dashboard notice you’re seeing says that your access to support has expired (which implicitly indicates that your access to updates hasn’t – you still have it). If you don’t want to see the message any more, and don’t want to keep clicking on the “Dismiss” icon and have it appear again after a few weeks, then add this as a piece of admin CSS:
.updraftupdatesnotice { display: none; }
e.g. Here’s one plugin for adding admin CSS: https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-admin-css/
Or, to not use a plugin, create a folder wp-content/mu-plugins and add a file wp-content/mu-plugins/no-upd-expiry-notices.php with these contents:
<?php
add_action('admin_footer', 'my_admin_footer');
function my_admin_footer() { echo '<style type="text/css"> .updraftupdatesnotice { display: none; } </style>'; }
Best wishes,
David