Plugin info

Total downloads: 821,077
Active installs: 20,000
Total reviews: 68
Average rating: 4.8
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 1 language(s)
Contributors: 1
Last updated: 4/13/2025 (261 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 2/26/2010 (15 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 3.8
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.8.99
Minimum PHP version: 7.4

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Stale β€’ Last updated 261 days ago β€’ 68 reviews

44/100

Is Disable All WordPress Updates abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 261 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 3.8
Tested up to: 6.8.99
Requires PHP: 7.4

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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.

It’s very important that you keep your WordPress theme, core and plugins up to date! If you don’t, 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

  1. Download the plugin and unzip it.
  2. Upload the folder disable-wordpress-updates/ to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
  3. Activate the plugin from your WordPress admin panel.
  4. 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

What can I do to be up to date with new releases of my WordPress version, plugins and themes?

Simply deativate the plugin for a short time. In case new versions are available you see the WordPress notifications.

Review feed

Gulshan Kumar
7/13/2020

My dashboard was slow due to api.wordpress.org but this plugin fixed INSTANTLY

Thanks!
Marcus Quinn
6/15/2023

Very site should use this with a separate MainWP instance for updates πŸ₯°

Thank you for your service to speed and sanity Oliver! πŸ™ This instantly solve a large amount of unnecessary Admin speed issues. ⚑️ Just try it for a few minutes, and compare your Admin speed before and after activating! Set yourself up a separate Wordpress instance with the free MainWP plugin, and use that for managing all your site updates automatically, manually, or a mix from there instead. I've been working with Wordpress for about 15 years. This is the way. πŸ’ͺ

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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. πŸ™‚ 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