{"id":349,"date":"2014-03-02T06:55:54","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T06:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/?p=349"},"modified":"2023-03-22T03:02:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T03:02:45","slug":"disable-wordpress-automatic-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/disable-wordpress-automatic-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Disable WordPress Automatic Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WordPress Automatic updates were \u00a0introduced in WordPress 3.7, this means most sites are now able to automatically apply these updates in the background. By default, automatic updates are only enabled for minor core releases and translation files, and \u00a0the application will auto update itself if you’re on WordPress 3.9.0 when \u00a0version 3.9.1 come out. We will have to update WordPress manually when major version is release, e.g WordPress 4.0<\/p>\n

Currently, WordPress don’t have configuration option for Automatic Updates on dashboard, we only do this by\u00a0defining constants in\u00a0wp-config.php<\/p>\n

The solution is easy,add the following to wp-config file to completely disable all types of automatic updates, core or otherwise. Below\u00a0code also works when we want to update WordPress manually, want to have more control of the update process<\/p>\n

define( 'AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED', true );<\/pre>\n
WordPress Codex entry here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WordPress Automatic updates were \u00a0introduced in WordPress 3.7, this means most sites are now able to automatically apply these updates in the background. By default, automatic updates are only enabled for minor core releases and translation files, and \u00a0the application will auto update itself if you’re on WordPress 3.9.0 when \u00a0version 3.9.1 come out. 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