Disable Updates for WordPress Core, Plugins and Themes

This plugin disables all WordPress updates (core, plugins and themes). This can be useful if you have multiple environments such as a live and staging server and you don’t want your users to use the update functionality.

This plugin not only disables the update mechanism for the core, plugins and themes, but it also removes the update menu item from the left navigation menu in the admin dashboard.

1. Unzip the zip file and upload the folder to the wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

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   WordPress dashboard before activating the plugin.

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   After activating the plugin all update notices are disabled.

1.4.1

WP 6.8 compatibility tested

1.4.0

WP 6.7 compatibility tested

1.3.9

WP 6.6 compatibility tested

1.3.8

WP 6.5 compatibility tested

1.3.7

WP 6.4 compatibility tested

1.3.6

Using add_filter ( 'pre_site_transient_update_core', '__return_null' ); slowed down the admin dashboard because it invalidated the transient. Added du_last_checked function to fake last update check which tricks WordPress into thinking the check has happened and nothing needs to be updated.

1.3.5

Changed minimum WordPress version to 4.6

1.3.4

Corrected translation filenames

1.3.2

Disable update health check

1.3.0

Added translation support

1.2.9

WordPress 6.3 compatibility tested

1.2.5

WordPress 5.8 compatibility tested

1.2

PHP 7.2 compatibility update

1.1

Added automatic_updater_disabled filter

1.0

Initial release