dismiss dashboard update nag indicators on admin menu admin bar toolbar disable maintenance mode when it is activated or if it is in mu-plugins
As of April 2026, Dismiss Core Update Nag Dashboard Widget is a WordPress update-nag plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 1.5K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.3+ and PHP 5.2.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Last updated 7 years ago — may have compatibility concerns.
Dismiss “Core Update” nag on dashboard, “Indicators” on admin menu, admin bar or toolbar, dismiss “Maintenance Mode”, when it is activated, or automatically, if it is in mu-plugins directory.
A neat trick, is to put this single file dismiss-update-nag.php (not it’s parent directory) in the /wp-content/mu-plugins/ directory (create it if not exists) so you won’t even have to enable it, and will be loaded by default, also, since first step installation of WordPress setup!
The code of this plugin, is not written with a php framework, but with a simple php editor, manually, compatible UTF-8 without BOM, and Unix LF. To avoid code corruption, do not edit it with WordPress embedded editor, or with any specifications incompatible edit…
| WordPress | 2.3+ requiredTested up to 5.1.22 |
| PHP | 5.2.4+ required |
Plugin approved in the directory on 2018-01-07
Detailed changes are available on GitHub.
Release Date: January 07, 2018
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