Alan Jacob Mathew

ProjektIsle

<p>Thaazhu Update Lock is a lightweight, <a href="https://projektisle.com/pi-plugins/thaazhu-update-lock/" rel="nofollow ugc">developer-focused</a> utility designed to give you absolute control over the WordPress update cycle. While WordPress provides a native way to toggle auto-updates, it lacks the ability to hard-lock a specific plugin version to prevent manual accidental updates or bulk-action overrides.</p>
<p>At its core, Thaazhu (a Malayalam word meaning “lock”) acts as a safety “clasp” for your site’s plugin updates. It allows administrators to freeze a plugin at its current version, ensuring that a critical environment remains stable until you are ready to perform testing and deployment.</p>
<p>Key Features:<br />
* Granular Version Control: Pick and choose which specific plugins stay frozen.<br />
* Contextual Documentation: Pair locks with notes to explain technical reasons for the restriction.<br />
* Modular Architecture: Built for performance without database bloat.<br />
* Bulk Update Protection: Locked plugins are disabled from bulk actions.</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<ol>
<li>Go to <strong>Plugins</strong> page</li>
<li>Find plugin you want to lock</li>
<li>Click <strong>“Lock Update”</strong> link</li>
<li>(Optional) Click <strong>“Add Note”</strong> to explain why it’s locked</li>
</ol>


Thaazhu Update Lock

Prevent accidental updates by locking plugins from being updated and add optional admin notes explaining why.

JordiPlana

<p>bbPress Protected Forums adds a metabox, shown while editing a forum, that allows you to disable new topic creation for determined user roles.<br />
The plugin is perfect for those situations that you may want your users to see the list of topics of a forum but don’t want them to create new topics.</p>
<h4>bbPress 2.x</h4>
<p>Plugin fully compatible with bbPress 2.x</p>
<h4>Languages</h4>
<p>bbPress Protected Forums is currently in:</p>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
</ul>
<p>The plugin comes with .po files. Feel free to translate it to your language!</p>
<h4>Official site</h4>
<p>For more information about this plugin you can check the <a href="http://jordiplana.com/bbpress-protected-forums-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">official site</a>.</p>


bbPress Protected Forums

Thank you for this great plugin , still working after 3 years
Regards
The X Learner



Great , Still working

Disables new topic creation in some forums for determined roles.

Thaazhu Update Lock vs bbPress Protected Forums