Beschreibung

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.

🛡️ New in 2.0: Security Mode

Want to keep your site patched without the risk of an automatic major-version upgrade? Enable the new Security Mode on its own settings page (Settings Disable Updates) to restrict WordPress core auto-updates to minor and security releases only. Major version and development (nightly) core updates are blocked automatically, while plugin and theme auto-updates stay untouched.

It is implemented purely through WordPress filters — no wp-config.php edits required. A clear warning is shown if the WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE constant is already defined elsewhere (host panel, mu-plugin, another plugin), and the admin-bar indicator turns orange while Security Mode is active so you can tell at a glance that updates are restricted rather than fully disabled.

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 if Security Mode isn’t enabled).

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Installation

Das Plugin herunterladen und entpacken.
Lade den Ordner disable-wordpress-updates/ in deinen Ordner /wp-content/plugins/ hoch.
Das Plugin im WordPress Admin-Bereich aktivieren.
Installation abgeschlossen.

Mit der Aktivierung des Plugins werden alle Theme-, Core- und Plugin-Update-Check-Ins deaktiviert. Wenn man schnell nachsehen möchten, ob neue Versionen vorhanden sind, deaktiviere dieses Plugin einfach kurzzeitig.

FAQ

Was kann ich tun, um über neue Versionen meiner WordPress-Version, Plugins und Themes auf dem Laufenden zu bleiben?: Simply deativate the plugin for a short time or enable the „Security Mode“ in the plugin’s settings. In case new versions are available you see the WordPress notifications.

Rezensionen

RodBor 10. Juli 2026

Usually I do in code, but its so lite and I think worth.

welaunchio 8. März 2025

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 🙂

doublecleanse 29. Januar 2025

My developer recommended installing this to help with dashboard speed since we use some 3rd party plugins. It has really helped, thanks!

pinkish1 13. Dezember 2024 1 Antwort

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.

jonjennings 26. September 2024

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.

mariohandsome 15. August 2024

Great plugin

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Mitwirkende und Entwickler

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Änderungsprotokoll

2.0.2

WordPress 7.1 compatibility
„Site Health“ page fixes
Localization fixes

2.0.1

„Security Mode“ fixes

2.0.0

New: Optional „Security Mode“ setting that enables WordPress core auto-updates for minor/security releases only (major & dev blocked) via the Settings API.

1.9.0

WordPress 6.9 compatibility

1.8.0

WordPress 6.7 compatibility

1.7.1

PHP-Warnungen behoben (danke TetsuyaXD!)

1.7.0

Added admin bar notice when plugin is enabled to remember admins that WordPress updates are disabled (thanks zimisun!)

1.6.8

Plugin-/Theme-Update Site-Health Prüfungen deaktiviert (danke lucha!)

1.6.7

Improved WordPress HTTP API level blocking of outgoing wordpress.org API checks (thanks luizkill!)

1.6.6

WordPress 5.3 Kompatibilität

1.6.5

Improved WordPress HTTP API level blocking of outgoing wordpress.org API checks (thanks tiennoub!)

1.6.3

Kompatibilität mit PHP 7.2 (Danke an catmaniax!)

1.6.2

Leistungsverbesserungen (Danke jneto81!)

1.6.1

Remove ‚update plugins‘ option from bulk operations select list (Thanks goruha!)

1.6.0

Leistungsverbesserungen (Danke jneto81!)

1.5.0

Leistungsverbesserungen (Danke jneto81!)

1.4.9

Leistungsverbesserungen (Danke dominicp!)

1.4.8

WordPress 4.7 Kompatibilität
Kompatibilität mit PHP 7

1.4.7

PHP-Hinweise behoben

1.4.6

Hide maintenance and update nags

1.4.5

Check for already defined constants (Thanks Andreas Ek!)

1.4.4

WordPress HTTP API level blocking of outgoing wordpress.org API checks

1.4.3

Improved blocking of outgoing wordpress.org API checks which caused slow speed on local environments (Thanks Makapaka!)

1.4.2

Update indicator not showing in the front-end toolbar anymore (Thanks flixflix!)

1.4.1

Fixed an issue that still allowed WordPress to update minor (security and maintenance) versions

1.4.0

Alle automatischen Hintergrundupdates deaktivieren (danke sLa NGjI’s)

1.3.1.1

PHP-Hinweis in Entwicklungsumgebungen behoben (danke dejernet)

1.3.1

Signifikante Leistungsverbesserungen beim Deaktivieren von Updates (dank an Flynsarmy)

1.3.0.1

Kleinere Aktualisierungen

1.3

Neuer Plugin-Betreuer. Hallo. 🙂 Mein Name ist Oliver.
Code umschreiben und bereinigen

1.2

Namens- und URL-Update (deutsche Plugin-Beschreibung aktualisiert)

1.1

URL-Aktualisierung aufgrund von Permalink-Änderungen

1.0

Erstveröffentlichung

Very Good and light Plugin

Must have for Performance

Really speeds up the dashboard

An awesome plugin that I’ve used for years!

A saviour when your host is blocked by wordpress.org…