<p>YellowLab Stop Core Emails adds a focused settings page under Settings > Stop Core Emails, where administrators can disable selected native WordPress email notifications.</p>
<p>You can manage email notifications for:</p>
<ul>
<li>automatic plugin updates</li>
<li>automatic theme updates</li>
<li>automatic WordPress core updates</li>
<li>available core update notices</li>
<li>new user notifications sent to administrators</li>
<li>user password changes</li>
<li>password change notices sent to administrators</li>
<li>user email address changes</li>
<li>site administrator email address changes</li>
<li>new comments</li>
<li>comments waiting for moderation</li>
<li>critical error and recovery mode messages</li>
</ul>
<p>The plugin does not block updates, user actions, comments, or recovery features. It only disables the selected email notifications.</p>
<p>After activation, open Settings > Stop Core Emails or use the Settings link on the Plugins screen.</p>
<h3>Assets</h3>
<p>Copyright 2026 Yellow Lab.</p>
<p>Yellow Lab logo and brand images are owned by Yellow Lab and distributed with this plugin under the GPLv2-or-later license.</p>


YellowLab Stop Core Emails

Control native WordPress email notifications from Settings > Stop Core Emails.

Emil Gustafsson

Upperdog

<p>This plugin hides update notifications for core, plugin, and theme updates in the WordPress admin. It’s useful for developers and agencies who manage updates through Composer or remote management services like ManageWP, and therefore wants to hide update notices for other users.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Hides WordPress core update notices.</li>
<li>Hides plugin update notices.</li>
<li>Hides theme update notices.</li>
<li>Hides updates link in admin menu and admin bar.</li>
<li>Blocks access to the updates page for users who are not allowed to see updates.</li>
<li>Enables developers to specify which users can see updates.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Worth noting</h3>
<p>This plugin is intended for developers and agencies who have good reasons for hiding the updates, for example if they manage updates through Composer or remote management services like ManageWP. This plugin has been tested with ManageWP and ManageWP needs to connect to the site with a user account that is allowed to see updates.</p>
<h3>Specify allowed users</h3>
<p>By default, the plugin allows the first registered user (the one who installed the site) to see updates. Developers can use the <code>hide_updates_allowed_users</code> filter to specify which users are allowed to see update notifications.</p>
<p>The following example will allow only users with usernames bill and melinda to see updates:</p>
<pre><code>function site_hide_updates_allowed_users() {
    $allowed_users = array( 'charlotte', 'bob' );
    return $allowed_users;
}
add_filter( 'hide_updates_allowed_users', 'site_hide_updates_allowed_users' );
</code></pre>


Hide Updates

This plugin hides update notifications for core, plugin, and theme updates in the WordPress admin for all everyone except specified users.

YellowLab Stop Core Emails vs Hide Updates