WP Disables Updates

Updates are important, but they can also break a site: a premium theme without a child theme that loses your changes, a plugin release that is not compatible yet, a core update on a production site that nobody has tested. WP Disables Updates gives you one settings page to decide, for each kind of update, whether WordPress may check for it and install it.

What you can turn off

• Plugin updates: no update notices, no “update available” rows, no automatic plugin updates.
• Theme updates: the same for your themes.
• WordPress core updates: no core update notice, and no automatic updates, minor releases included.
• Translation updates: language files stay as they are.

Each switch is independent, and nothing is touched until you tick a box. Untick it and updates come back right away.

Please read this before you use it

No updates means no security fixes. Keep the switches on only if you know what you are doing, and keep an eye on the changes made to your plugins, themes and WordPress itself so you can update by hand when you are ready (a staging copy first is a good idea). The plugin warns you about this on its settings page.

How it works

The plugin uses the filters WordPress provides for this purpose (the update transients and the auto_update_* filters). It adds no tables, loads nothing on the public side of your site and leaves no data behind when you delete it.

More detail in this blog post, written in French: Désactiver les mises à jour WordPress

Available in English, French and Spanish.