Disable Updates for WordPress Core, Plugins and Themes
Disables the WordPress update checking and notification system for all core, plugin and theme updates.
4.8(4 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 4 months agoAs of April 2026, Disable Updates for WordPress Core, Plugins and Themes is a WordPress updates plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 4 reviews. It has been downloaded 109K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Downloads are up 46% this week. Top alternative: InfiniteWP Client.
4.8/54 reviews
10K+active installs
109K+total downloads
15 yearssince 2011
Overview
This plugin disables all WordPress updates (core, plugins and themes). This can be useful if you have multiple environments such as a live and staging server and you don’t want your users to use the update functionality.
This plugin not only disables the update mechanism for the core, plugins and themes, but it also removes the update menu item from the left navigation menu in the admin dashboard.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
No options to choose
by santoshsth1·1 year ago
This plugin does what is says but it doesn’t give any choosing option at all. I don’t want to disable updates for all plugins.
Found this plugin which provides more flexibility disabling core, updates, and as well gives options to choose for blocking specific plugin updates.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-email-notification-for-auto-updates/
- This topic was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by santoshsth1.
nice!
by bestwebmasternet·2 years ago
simple for good practices_)
Fantastic
by francisca34578·2 years ago
This is absolutely fantastic, whoever made this deserves to be paid!!
Amazing
by waqassaleem378·5 years ago
Just wondering why this Dimond doesn’t have even a single review. Love it 🙂
Download Trends
Today: 115Yesterday: 52This week: 301Period total: 21K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.6+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.4
54.3%
v1.3
24.6%
v1.2
16.7%
Other
4.4%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.4.2
WP 6.9 compatibility tested
Contributors
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