Disable All WordPress Updates

Descrizione

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.

🛡️ New in 2.0: Security Mode

Want to keep your site patched without the risk of an automatic major-version upgrade? Enable the new Security Mode on its own settings page (Settings Disable Updates) to restrict WordPress core auto-updates to minor and security releases only. Major version and development (nightly) core updates are blocked automatically, while plugin and theme auto-updates stay untouched.

It is implemented purely through WordPress filters — no wp-config.php edits required. A clear warning is shown if the WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE constant is already defined elsewhere (host panel, mu-plugin, another plugin), and the admin-bar indicator turns orange while Security Mode is active so you can tell at a glance that updates are restricted rather than fully disabled.

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 if Security Mode isn’t enabled).

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Installazione

  1. Download the plugin and unzip it.
  2. Upload the folder disable-wordpress-updates/ to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
  3. Attiva il plugin dal tuo pannello amministratore di WordPress.
  4. Installazione terminata.

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.

FAQ

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 or enable the “Security Mode” in the plugin’s settings. In case new versions are available you see the WordPress notifications.

Recensioni

8 Marzo 2025
I normally never give ratings, but after 24 hours of debugging and finding out that another plugins update API service is causing my slow down, I am super happy that this plugin exists! Thanks 1 Million times! This one is a requirement for good page speed. P.S. Dont forget to disable it once a month to to updates 🙂
13 Dicembre 2024 1 risposta
First of all, I’m sorry it took so long to give a review for this wonderful plugin. I’ve used it for years, it’s always worked perfectly and still does. But if the author sees this message, I have a suggestion: please update the plugin from time to time – it doesn’t have to be a major update, just a minor version change. I’m saying this because I noticed that, over the years, your plugin went lower in the priority list when installing it from within WP. A few years ago, I could search for “disable updates” and your plugin would be in the first row of results. Now, I search for its exact name, “disable all wordpress updates”, and your plugin is the 15-20th result. I think this happens because WP sees that it’s not been updated – although it works perfectly with the latest version of WP.
26 Settembre 2024
As someone caught in the middle of the fireworks between WPEngine and Automattic right now, thank you thank you thank you. This plugin prevents the 2 minute wait on every backend page load whilst the site tries and fails to talk to the plugin/theme/core servers for an update check.
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Contributi e sviluppo

“Disable All WordPress Updates” è un software open source. Le persone che hanno contribuito allo sviluppo di questo plugin sono indicate di seguito.

Collaboratori

Changelog

2.0.1

  • “Security Mode” fixes

2.0.0

  • New: Optional “Security Mode” setting that enables WordPress core auto-updates for minor/security releases only (major & dev blocked) via the Settings API.

1.9.0

  • WordPress 6.9 compatibility

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

  • Compatibile con PHP 7.2 (Grazie catmaniax!)

1.6.2

  • Miglioramenti prestazionali (Grazie ancora jneto81!)

1.6.1

  • Remove ‘update plugins’ option from bulk operations select list (Thanks goruha!)

1.6.0

  • Miglioramenti prestazionali (Grazie ancora jneto81!)

1.5.0

  • Miglioramenti prestazionali (Grazie jneto81!)

1.4.9

  • Miglioramenti prestazionali (Grazie dominicp!)

1.4.8

  • CompatiblitĂ  WordPress 4.7
  • CompatiblitĂ  PHP7

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. 🙂 Name’s Oliver.
  • Riscrittura e verifica del codice

1.2

  • Name and URL Update (German plugin description updated)

1.1

  • URL Update because of permalink changes

1.0

  • Versione iniziale