Leaving WordPress.org: Here’s Why and What It Means for Paid Memberships Pro Users

On October 17, 2024 we emailed [email protected] and asked them to close the Paid Memberships Pro listing in the WordPress.org Plugins Repository. They complied.

Going forward, every official Paid Memberships Pro plugin update will be served directly from our own license server, rather than through the WordPress.org Plugins Repository. For over nine years, we have been serving updates for our free and premium plugins through our own license and update server. We are now extending this process to include the core Paid Memberships Pro plugin.

Over time, we plan to serve updates for all of our plugins currently hosted on the .org repo, except for a few that are co-maintained with others.

Our decision to leave the .org repo was made after careful consideration and months of planning. We are doing everything we can to make this transition as seamless as possible for our current and future users. Still, there are a lot of questions around this, which this post will address.

If either the core Paid Memberships Pro plugin or the new PMPro Update Manager Add On is active on your site, you should be able to update from the Updates or Plugins page of your WordPress dashboard as you always have. Go to Dashboard > Updates and click the “check again” link on the Updates page if you don’t see the update in the list.

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