[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #50623: Discoverability of plugin and themes autoupdates

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#50623: Discoverability of plugin and themes autoupdates
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 Reporter:  francina        |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement     |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Security        |    Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal          |   Keywords:  needs-design-feedback
  Focuses:  administration  |
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 The new auto updates feature for plugins and themes is very useful, but I
 found it was not easy to discover after updating to 5.5 beta. The feature
 doesn't have a place where it "pops" into users eyes. At least it didn't
 in mine.

 == Plugins

 - Great: Having everything in one column
 - Not so great: Not having a clear differentiator between plugins I opted
 in and plugins I have opted out.

 == Themes

 - Not so great: having to go into each single theme
 - Bad: having a text with the same color of the theme author name (and in
 smaller font) right under it.

 == Ideas

 - Have the design team review the UI
 - Have a call-out widget in the Dashboard
 - Have a call-out widget in the Updates screen
 - Have a call-out widget in the Theme screen, potentially with a button to
 bulk enable/disable
 - Turn the theme "Enable/Disable Auto-Updates" into a button in the lower
 part of the theme modal where "Activate/Live Preview/etc..." buttons live.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/50623>
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