How to Disable Automatic Updates in WordPress

WordPress auto-update is beneficial for your WordPress website because it increases your website security with the latest feature. But sometimes you are using so many plugins to enhance website features at that time, there may be a chance of affecting your website feature with WordPress auto-update or plugins update.

So we recommend you to always keep WordPress auto-update off to avoid that kind of issue in the future.

Configuring and Disabling Automatic WordPress Updates

We can able to disable automatic updates in WordPress in various ways.

1. By using the Disable Updates Manager plugin:

This is the easiest way to do this by installing a plugin and activating the same. After activation, you can disable auto-update as shown in the below picture.

Go to Settings » Disable Updates Manager to configure your settings.

2. By using the wp-config.php file:

An alternate method, You can disable automatic updates in WordPress by adding below the line of code in your wp-config.php file

define( ‘WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE’, false );

This will disable all automatic WordPress updates.

3. By using functions.php file:

However, if you want a minor core update, but not WordPress plugins and theme, then you can also able to disable theme and plugin. So you can do by adding the below particular filters code in functions.php theme file.

Disable automatic WordPress plugin updates:

add_filter( ‘auto_update_plugin’, ‘__return_false’ );

Disable automatic WordPress theme updates:

add_filter( ‘auto_update_theme’, ‘__return_false’ );