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title: Releasing Beta Versions of a WordPress Product
description: "PaddlePress PRO allows site administrators to distribute beta versions of their software without extra effort. To release a beta version, you first need to tag a download item with \"-beta\" suffix. For example, if you are distributing your products under…"
url: "https://handyplugins.co/docs/releasing-beta-versions-of-a-wordpress-product/"
updated: "2024-05-12"
category: PaddlePress Pro
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# Releasing Beta Versions of a WordPress Product

PaddlePress PRO allows site administrators to distribute beta versions of their software without extra effort.

To release a beta version, you first need to tag a download item with "-beta" suffix. For example, if you are distributing your products under "sample-slug". You have to use "sample-slug-beta" for beta distributions.

Secondly, you have to pass the "beta" parameter to true for [API calls](https://handyplugins.co/paddlepress-pro/docs/software-licensing-api/). Our sample updater for the WP [plugin](https://github.com/HandyPlugins/paddlepress-sample-plugin/blob/master/paddlepress-sample-plugin.php#L40) and [theme](https://github.com/HandyPlugins/paddlepress-sample-theme/blob/master/updater/theme-updater.php#L21) supports this feature. Just ask your users if they want to opt-in the beta updates and pass that value to the updater class.

## Versioning

Beta versions should have a greater version number than stable releases in order to provide auto-updates.

## Permission

You have to grant the same membership access in order to provide auto-updates to beta downloads.