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A plugin that uses WordPress Automatic Updater to send data to an API that updates the "composer.json", add changes and commit. It works for plugins and core.

Installation and usage

1. Install the plugin with composer :

{
      "type": "package",
      "package": {
        "name": "yeswedev-team/auto-composer-update",
        "version": "3.0.0",
        "type": "wordpress-plugin",
        "dist": {
          "type": "zip",
          "url": "https://github.com/yeswedev-team/auto-composer-update/archive/refs/tags/{%VERSION}.zip"
        },
        "require": {
          "guzzlehttp/guzzle": "^7.8"
        }
      }
}

1. Add the WP_CURRENT_PATH, GIT_REPOSITORY, GIT_BRANCH, UPDATE_REPOSITORY (true or false) and API_UPDATE_WORDPRESS environment variable, which points to the path of the WordPress project
2. In your WordPress configuration, check the presence of these lines on the environment you want
   1. Config::define('AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED', false);
   2. Config::define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');
   3. Config::define('WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE', true);
   4. Config::define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', false);
3. Ensure that all maintainers can push on the branch concerned.
4. Go to back-office and enable the plugin.
5. Wait for WordPress Automatic Updater or use CLI to trigger it : wp eval 'do_action("wp_maybe_auto_update");'

Help

When the update fail, WordPress may add a '.lock' into the wp_options table, normally it will expire before the next trigger of the WordPress Automatic Updater, but you can also remove it manually : DELETE FROM 'wp_options' WHERE 'option_name' LIKE '%.lock%'; to be sure.