Arjan Olsder

<p>With every major WordPress Core Update, WordPress.org will be pushing out new versions of it’s own plugins and themes. What this plugin does is block that new content from downloaden onto your webserver.</p>
<p>There are a few good reasons you want this:<br />
* Avoid backups being unneededly big in size<br />
* Avoid longer backup creation and restore times<br />
* Lower the risk of getting hacked due to heaps of unused PHP code on your webserver</p>
<p>This is an UltraFast plugin. This means it will not use the database connection, it will not create a settings screen etc. Effectively it is only a single line of code we are adding to WordPress.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>Thanks go out to the public at the WordPress Meetup in Nijmegen for brining up this issue and solution.</p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>This file is part of WP Clean Updates.</p>
<p>WP Switch Clean Updates On is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.</p>
<p>WP Switch Clean Updates On is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. See the GNU General Public License for more details.</p>
<p>You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with WP Switch Clean Updates On. If not, see <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/</a>.</p>


Clean WordPress Updates

Clean WordPress Updates blocks new themes and plugins from being installed upon updating WordPress Core

Upperdog

Emil Gustafsson

<p>When WordPress is updated, it re-installs wp-config-sample.php, readme files, and license files even though you may have deleted them before. This plugin automatically removes these files when WordPress is manually or automatically updated. It also removes these files when activating the plugin for the first time. Removing these files is not mandatory, but you may want to if you don’t want them to expose your WordPress version or if you just like to keep things neat and clean.</p>
<p>Files that are removed:</p>
<ul>
<li>License files, both default and localized</li>
<li>Readme files, both default and localized</li>
<li>wp-config-sample.php</li>
<li>wp-admin/install.php</li>
</ul>
<p><strong><em>You may not want to install this plugin if you’re using a plugin or service to scans your site to verify checksums on the core files. When the removed files are missing it might result in warnings.</em></strong></p>
<h3>Manual installation</h3>
<ol>
<li>Upload the <code>wp-core-update-cleaner</code> directory to the <code>/wp-content/plugins/</code> directory.</li>
<li>Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.</li>
</ol>


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