UpdraftPlus is on a diet: future downloads of paid versions of UpdraftPlus will be around 35% smaller to download, and for their installed size on your webserver.

How is this being managed? Via 1) removing all the bundled translations (i.e. all the various languages that UpdraftPlus is translated into) from the plugin, and 2) using WordPress’s mechanism (in recent WordPress versions) for downloading only the needed translations, when needed (and not downloading all the translations for languages you’re not using).

This means that each UpdraftPlus install will need around 12 MB less disk space, and take less time to download and install. This is handy especially on some hostile web hosting company setups, that severely limit your disk input/output (i.e. data transfer) rate, in case you have to work on a client site that has those!

Web hosting companies will be happy about this for another reason; on one server I was allowed to check, there were 128 copies of UpdraftPlus installed on the various websites (it’s a popular plugin!). Every little helps in an industry with tight margins!

David Anderson (lead developer, Team Updraft)

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