Disables the theme, plugin and core update checking, the related cronjobs, plugin/theme update health checks and notification system.
As of April 2026, Disable All WordPress Updates is a WordPress theme plugin with 20K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 68 reviews. It has been downloaded 848K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.8+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Kirki Customizer Framework.
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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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 🙂
My developer recommended installing this to help with dashboard speed since we use some 3rd party plugins. It has really helped, thanks!
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.
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.
Great plugin
| WordPress | 3.8+ requiredTested up to 6.9.99 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
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