Disable All WordPress Updates
Disables the theme, plugin and core update checking, the related cronjobs, plugin/theme update health checks and notification system.
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Maintenance & Compatibility
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Stale β’ Last updated 261 days ago β’ 68 reviews
Is Disable All WordPress Updates abandoned?
Likely maintained (last update 261 days ago).
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Description
This plugin completely disables the theme, plugin and core update checking system in WordPress. The plugin prevents WordPress from
checking for updates including cronjobs, and prevents any notifications from being displayed.
Itβs very important that you keep your WordPress theme, core and plugins up to date! If you donβt, your blog or website could
be susceptible to security vulnerabilities or performance issues.
If you use this plugin, make sure you keep yourself up to date with new releases of your active WordPress version, plugins
and themes and update them as new versions are released (simply by deactivating this plugin for a short time).
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Installation
- Download the plugin and unzip it.
- Upload the folder disable-wordpress-updates/ to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
- Activate the plugin from your WordPress admin panel.
- Installation finished.
With activating the plugin all theme, core and plugin update checkings are disabled. If you want to have a quick look if new versions
are existing, simply deactive this plugin for a short time.
Frequently Asked Questions
Simply deativate the plugin for a short time. In case new versions are available you see the WordPress notifications.
Review feed
My dashboard was slow due to api.wordpress.org but this plugin fixed INSTANTLY
Very site should use this with a separate MainWP instance for updates π₯°
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Changelog
1.8.0
- WordPress 6.7 compatibility
1.7.1
- Fixed PHP warnings (thanks TetsuyaXD!)
1.7.0
- Added admin bar notice when plugin is enabled to remember admins that WordPress updates are disabled (thanks zimisun!)
1.6.8
- Disable plugin/theme update site health checks (thanks lucha!)
1.6.7
- Improved WordPress HTTP API level blocking of outgoing wordpress.org API checks (thanks luizkill!)
1.6.6
- WordPress 5.3 compatibility
1.6.5
- Improved WordPress HTTP API level blocking of outgoing wordpress.org API checks (thanks tiennoub!)
1.6.3
- PHP 7.2 compatibility (Thanks catmaniax!)
1.6.2
- Performance improvements (Thanks again jneto81!)
1.6.1
- Remove ‘update plugins’ option from bulk operations select list (Thanks goruha!)
1.6.0
- Performance improvements (Thanks again jneto81!)
1.5.0
- Performance improvements (Thanks jneto81!)
1.4.9
- Performance improvements (Thanks dominicp!)
1.4.8
- WordPress 4.7 compatibility
- PHP 7 compatibility
1.4.7
- Fixed a PHP notice
1.4.6
- Hide maintenance and update nags
1.4.5
- Check for already defined constants (Thanks Andreas Ek!)
1.4.4
- WordPress HTTP API level blocking of outgoing wordpress.org API checks
1.4.3
- Improved blocking of outgoing wordpress.org API checks which caused slow speed on local environments (Thanks Makapaka!)
1.4.2
- Update indicator not showing in the front-end toolbar anymore (Thanks flixflix!)
1.4.1
- Fixed an issue that still allowed WordPress to update minor (security and maintenance) versions
1.4.0
- Disable all automatic background updates (thanks sLa NGjI’s)
1.3.1.1
- Fixed a PHP notice on dev environments (thanks dejernet)
1.3.1
- Significant performance improvements when disabling updates (props flynsarmy)
1.3.0.1
- Minor updates
1.3
- New plugin maintainer. Hello. π Name’s Oliver.
- Code rewrite and cleanup
1.2
- Name and URL Update (German plugin description updated)
1.1
- URL Update because of permalink changes
1.0
- Initial release