Disables the default notification email sent by WordPress for an automatic core update. Simply activate the plugin to disable the notification email : …
As of April 2026, Disable WordPress Core Update Email is a WordPress email plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 7.3K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 9 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 22% this week. Top alternative: WP Mail SMTP by WPForms – The Most….
Disables the default notification email sent by WordPress for an automatic core update. Simply activate the plugin to disable the notification email 🙂
The simplicity of the plugin helps it be lightweight & easy to use.
That also means the one line of active PHP code that it consists of (it then being what WordPress recommends in its current documentation per https://wordpress.org/support/article/configuring-automatic-background-updates/#disable-emails-via-filter) is likely to continue to work exactly as expected unless WordPress were to completely overhaul its setup regarding this (with there appearing to be no plans for this.) Especially considering it’s using a filter so it’s even more flexible if things were to change in the future (won’t outright break things due to a code error beyond WordPress doing a fundamental change to a core function like add_filter or __return_false & that’d then break the majority of plugins & themes out there [they’d need a good reason for doing so & it appears they obviously have no plans for doing that either.])
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 4.5.33 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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