Matt Radford

Stop WordPress sending anything but essential data during the update check.
By default, WordPress sends the following data during the version update check:
<ul>
<li>Current WordPress version</li>
<li>Language</li>
<li>PHP version</li>
<li>MySQL version</li>
<li>If multisite in enabled</li>
<li>Number of websites the WordPress install is running (this will be 1 unless it is a multisite)</li>
<li>Number of users</li>
<li>The WordPress database version during initial installation</li>
</ul>
The WordPress dashboard does not currently provide a way to opt-out of this data collection, but WordPress 4.9 introduced the ability to change whether this data is sent.
This plugin ensures only essential data – current WordPress version and language – are sent during the update check.
There are no options to configure with this plugin.

Update Privacy

Great plugin, very well written. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for sharing

Stop WordPress sending anything but essential data during the update check.

simshaun

There’s not much to this plugin. It’s a couple barebones filters that turn off the plugin and theme autoupdate emails.
On WordPress 5.5.0, plugin/theme autoupdate emails are turned off regardless of whether or not they failed.
Since WordPress 5.5.1, emails indicating update failures are allowed through.

Disable Plugin Autoupdate Emails

Getting too many "plugin updated" or "theme updated" emails since WordPress 5.5? This turns them off.

Update Privacy vs Disable Plugin Autoupdate Emails