Disables the default notification emails sent by a site after an automatic theme and/or plugin update. Simply activate the plugin to disable these ema …
As of April 2026, Disable Theme and Plugin Auto-Update Emails is a WordPress email plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 10 reviews. It has been downloaded 112K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.5+ and PHP 5.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2020. Last updated 2 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 15% this week. Top alternative: WP Mail SMTP by WPForms – The Most….
Disables the default notification emails sent by a site after an automatic theme and/or plugin update. Simply activate the plugin to disable these email notifications (allows failure notices through unless setting is enabled to disable these as well).
This is a simple & lightweight plugin that simply uses the official filters made available as of WordPress 5.5 to disable these email notifications upon activation. It does let update failure notifications through by default, but the Settings => General page has a setting to disable these as well.
Check things out on GitHub at https://github.com/KZeni/Disable-WordPress-Theme-and-Plugin-Auto-Update-Emails
This is a simple and effective plugin and does what it says. Thank you for sharing this I’m so happy to no longer receive so many update emails!!!
Does the job perfect. Simple usage, just activate the plugin, that’s all.
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Install and activate. Easy. Get’s done what should be an option in core. No more “Some plugins have automatically updated” emails for all your sites. Great to unclutter my inbox. Thanks!
This little plugin is much appreciated by it’s simplicity and ease of use. It does a perfect job, thanks to the creator!
| WordPress | 5.5+ requiredTested up to 6.4.8 |
| PHP | 5.4+ required |
Released October 24th, 2023
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