Disable auto-update Email Notifications

by Elvis Nyakangi

Description

Since WordPress 5.5, if you have enabled plugin or theme auto-update you will receive an email notification when a plugin or them auto-update is successful or when it has failed.

If you manage a dozen of websites, then the constant stream of auto-update emails may be annoying.

This plugin seeks to cure the problem by automatically disabling plugin and themes email auto-update notifications.

All other notification will be ON. This plugin only stops plugin and theme auto-update notifications. Not core WordPress updates.

More about the Plugin

This is a lightweight plugin that is less than 2 kb and has zero effect on your website load speed
No settings are required. Just install the plugin, activate, and you are done. .
It is compatible with the latest version of WordPress.

We create simple and lightweight email tools that work without much settings. Check our simple email tools that you can use for email marketing.

Installation

Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/plugin-name directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
Activate the plugin through the \’Plugins\’ screen in WordPress
You are done! No more settings required

Faq

Where are the plugin settings?

There are no settings. This plugin does its magic without any settings.

Reviews

Checks out clean! 2 Lines of code! Perfect!

By Dean Householder (deanhouseholder) on March 7, 2025

I am always suspicious of WordPress plugins and like to see if they really do ONLY what they say. I was SO pleased to see that this plugin literally adds two lines of executable code. Two filters that just disable theme and plugin update emails. That's it. Amazing!

Very useful

By markzoi on March 12, 2024

This Plugin deserve much more than is now, it saved my time disabling wp annoying notifications... Thank you

Didn't work

By advantagen on January 20, 2022

Simply doesn't work, at least for WordPress 5.8.3

Simple and Effective

By Zumbo (ufukart) on July 1, 2021

Simple and Effective, thanks to developer.

Absolutely needed

By xnovo on April 20, 2021

When having hundreds of websites it's impossible to deal with such notifications.

Great support!

By sarahtht on February 18, 2021

Plugin does the job on most of my websites but not all of them, however support is really fast to answer 🙂

It does what it says

By memphi on December 15, 2020

It's a fully functional plugin, which does what it claims. However, would be nice to see in future if there would be more possible settings, e.g. information when plugin update failed etc. 🙂

Doing the job

By meriemc on November 23, 2020

Thank you guys for this plugin. I installed it on 25 websites so far. All good.

Good temporary solution

By (Jorix) on November 5, 2020

Since WordPress 5.5 likes to spam us with plugin update notification mails and there was no setting to switch this off, I am happy that this plugin exist. Even if it may become obsolete in some future. Would give it 5 stars if it was not an all or nothing thing and if you don't enter the exact and full length name it is darn hard to find in the plugin repo. The latter has probably more to do with the ineffective way the plugin directory works. Still.

Just what we need

By Garth Penglase (gpenglase) on September 24, 2020

There's always one thing or another that every major update brings to WordPress that means we got to add yet another piece of code to WP to stop or hide things... If it isn't intrusive notices and advertising from Automattic, then it is a half-baked addition which requires yet another tweak - surely whoever added auto-updates would actually provide a switch to disable such notifications in the first place (which seems like something obvious that should have been in WP from the beginning)... Thank you for creating this - I just can't be bothered pushing updates to function files on our many WP sites, but I can mass-update them with this simple plugin to stop the irritating emails.

Changelog

1.5.0

Release Date – 21 January 2025

Updated compatibility with WordPress 6.7.1

1.4.1

Release Date – 17 November 2023

Updated compatibility with WordPress 6.4

1.4.0

Release Date – 3 June 2022

Updated compatibility with WordPress 6.0

1.3.0

*Release Date – 12 May 2021 *

Updated compatibility with version 5.7.1
Changed plugin author website

1.2

Release Date – 25 November 2020

Updated compatibility with version 5.6
Modified Plugin description text for clarity

1.0 initial release.