Chip Bennett

@Ryan Hellyer –

Opt-in for existing sites makes a lot of sense I think. Perhaps a dialog box could pop open prompting them to confirm they want to switch, as otherwise a lot of existing sites will never gain that new feature.

In my ideal world, this would be handled by a wp-config constant definition, with values of FALSE, 'core', or 'all', that defaults to “false”:
if ( ! defined( 'AUTOMATIC_UPDATES' ) ) { $automatic_updates = false };

On new installations, that can be pre-configured in wp-config, like so:
define( 'AUTOMATIC_UPDATES', 'core' );

That way, on existing installations, if the constant isn’t added, then the value remains at FALSE.

And anyone who wants to opt-in to automatic updates for core, Themes, and Plugins can use the third value:
define( 'AUTOMATIC_UPDATES', 'all' );

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