Disable & Manage Updates
Disable & Manage Updates
Description
Disable & Manage Updates gives you control over WordPress updates and important admin settings from one dashboard.
Disable updates for WordPress Core, plugins, and themes, manage automatic updates, update checks and update information, and control comments, trackbacks, pingbacks, Admin Bar visibility, Admin Notices, plugin file editing, theme file editing, and troubleshooting options.
Disable Automatic Updates
Want to disable automatic updates in WordPress?
Disable & Manage Updates lets you control automatic update behavior for supported WordPress components from one place.
You can manage automatic updates for:
– WordPress Core
– Plugins
– Themes
– Translations
Use the global controls to manage automatic update behavior across your website, or use the available individual controls when you need more selective control.
Disable Plugin Updates
Need to disable plugin updates or control which plugins can update automatically?
Disable & Manage Updates provides global and individual plugin controls for supported automatic update functionality.
This gives you more control over plugin automatic updates without having to manage each setting separately.
Disable Theme Updates
Need to disable theme updates or control theme automatic updates?
Use Disable & Manage Updates to manage supported automatic update behavior for your WordPress themes, including available individual theme controls.
Manage WordPress Core Updates
Control supported WordPress Core automatic updates from the same dashboard.
If you want to disable automatic WordPress Core updates, you can manage the relevant setting without editing WordPress core files.
Manage Update Checks and Information
Automatic updates, update checks, and update information are separate controls.
Automatic updates determine whether supported updates can be installed automatically.
Check for Updates Automatically controls whether WordPress regularly checks for available Core, plugin, and theme updates in the background. This does not install updates.
Show all Update Notifications & Alerts controls whether WordPress update notifications, notices, badges, counts, and other update alerts are shown throughout the WordPress admin.
The Disable & Manage Updates dashboard continues to show its own update counts and version information so you can manage the settings even when WordPress update information is hidden elsewhere.
Disable & Manage Updates lets you manage these settings separately, so you can choose how WordPress checks for and reports available updates.
Manage Update Information and Notifications
WordPress can display update information through admin notices, alerts, badges, and other dashboard indicators.
Use Disable & Manage Updates to manage supported update notifications, notices, badges, and other update information separately from automatic update settings.
This means you can control whether automatic updates are enabled without automatically changing how available update information is presented.
Disable Comments
Don’t use comments on your WordPress website?
Disable & Manage Updates provides controls to disable comments and manage related trackbacks and pingbacks.
This makes the plugin useful for websites that do not need WordPress commenting functionality.
Manage Admin Notices
WordPress plugins and themes can display notices throughout the administration area.
Disable & Manage Updates provides controls for managing supported Admin Notices, helping keep your WordPress dashboard cleaner and less distracting.
Manage Admin Bar
Control supported WordPress Admin Bar visibility from the plugin settings.
This can help simplify the WordPress administration experience and control when the Admin Bar is displayed.
Manage Plugin and Theme File Editing
For sites where administrators should not edit plugin or theme files from WordPress Admin, Disable & Manage Updates provides separate controls to disable Plugin File Editor and Theme File Editor access.
These controls block the built-in editor screens and direct access to the corresponding editor endpoints. They do not disable normal plugin or theme installation, updates, or management.
Troubleshooting
If an update or admin setting does not behave as expected, another plugin, theme, must-use plugin, hosting configuration, wp-config.php, or custom code may be affecting WordPress behavior.
Disable & Manage Updates includes troubleshooting options to help investigate supported settings and identify possible configuration conflicts.
One Dashboard for WordPress Updates and Admin Controls
Instead of using multiple snippets or separate plugins, Disable & Manage Updates brings commonly needed WordPress controls together in one dashboard.
Use it to:
– Disable updates
– Disable automatic updates
– Disable plugin automatic updates
– Disable theme automatic updates
– Disable WordPress Core automatic updates
– Manage translation updates
– Manage background update checks
– Manage update notifications and alerts
– Disable comments
– Manage trackbacks and pingbacks
– Manage Admin Bar visibility
– Manage Admin Notices
– Manage Plugin File Editing
– Manage Theme File Editing
– Troubleshoot update and admin settings
Important: Update Settings Are Separate
Automatic updates, background update checks, and update information are separate controls.
Automatic updates determine whether supported updates can be installed automatically.
Background update checks determine whether WordPress regularly checks for available updates.
Update information controls how supported update information is presented through WordPress notifications, notices, badges, and other admin indicators.
For example, disabling automatic updates does not necessarily stop WordPress from checking for available updates.
Update behavior can also be affected by other plugins, themes, must-use plugins, hosting configuration, wp-config.php, or custom code.
Disable & Manage Updates cannot guarantee that its settings will override external configurations.
Requirements
– WordPress 4.1 or later.
– PHP 5.6 or later.
Important
Keeping WordPress, plugins, and themes updated is important for security and compatibility.
If you choose to disable automatic updates or other update functionality, make sure you have an appropriate process for reviewing and applying updates.
Update behavior may also be affected by other plugins, themes, must-use plugins, hosting configuration, wp-config.php, or custom code.
Disable & Manage Updates cannot guarantee that its settings will override external configurations.
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Installation
- In your WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins Add New Plugin.
- Upload the
disable-updates-comments.zipfile, or upload thedisable-updates-commentsfolder to/wp-content/plugins/. - Activate Disable & Manage Updates from the Plugins screen.
- Open Disable & Manage Updates from the WordPress admin menu.
- Review the available tabs and configure the update and admin controls you need.
- Click Save Changes.
Screenshots
Automatic Update Settings – Manage automatic updates for WordPress Core, plugins, themes, and translations.
Plugin Automatic Update Settings – Manage automatic plugin updates, individual plugin controls, update availability, and installed versions.
Theme Automatic Update Settings – Manage automatic theme updates, individual theme controls, update availability, and installed versions.
Comment Settings – Disable comments and manage trackbacks and pingbacks.
Admin Control & Troubleshooting – Manage Admin Bar visibility, Admin Notices, Plugin File Editing, Theme File Editing, PHP error display, and troubleshooting settings.
Faq
Yes. Disable & Manage Updates provides controls for managing supported automatic update settings in WordPress.
Automatic updates determine whether supported updates can be installed automatically.
Disable & Manage Updates provides controls for supported plugin automatic updates, including global and individual plugin controls where available.
Disable & Manage Updates provides controls for supported theme automatic updates, including global and individual theme controls where available.
Yes. Disable & Manage Updates provides controls for supported WordPress Core automatic update behavior.
Yes. Where supported, you can manage automatic update behavior for individual plugins and themes instead of applying the same setting to every plugin or theme.
Disable & Manage Updates provides controls for managing supported WordPress update functionality, including automatic updates, background update checks, and update information.
However, update behavior can also be affected by other plugins, themes, must-use plugins, hosting configuration, wp-config.php, or custom code.
They control different parts of the WordPress update process.
Automatic updates determine whether supported updates can be installed automatically.
Background update checks determine whether WordPress checks for available updates.
Update information controls how supported update information is presented through alerts, notices, badges, and other admin indicators.
These are separate controls.
Yes, depending on your background update check and update information settings.
Disabling automatic updates does not necessarily stop WordPress from checking for available updates or displaying available update information.
Yes. Automatic update behavior and update checks are separate controls.
Disabling automatic updates does not prevent you from manually reviewing and applying available updates.
Yes. Disable & Manage Updates provides separate controls for supported plugin and theme automatic update behavior.
Yes. The plugin provides controls for managing supported update notifications, notices, badges, and other update information displayed in the WordPress administration area.
Yes. Disable Plugin Editing can be set to Allowed or Not allowed. When it is not allowed, the built-in Plugin File Editor menu is hidden and direct access to the editor is blocked.
Yes. Disable Theme Editing can be set to Allowed or Not allowed. When it is not allowed, the built-in Theme File Editor menu is hidden and direct access to the editor is blocked.
No. The editing controls only prevent use of the built-in file editors. Normal plugin and theme management and updates remain available.
Yes. Disable & Manage Updates provides controls to disable comments when your website does not need comment functionality.
Yes. The plugin provides controls for managing trackbacks and pingbacks.
Disable & Manage Updates provides controls for managing supported Admin Notices displayed in the WordPress administration area.
Yes. The plugin provides controls for managing supported Admin Bar visibility.
First, verify that the relevant setting was saved successfully.
If the setting still does not appear to take effect, another plugin, theme, must-use plugin, hosting configuration, wp-config.php, or custom code may be affecting the same WordPress behavior.
Use the available troubleshooting options to help investigate the issue.
Disable & Manage Updates does not modify your wp-config.php file to change WordPress Debug Mode.
However, settings or custom code contained in wp-config.php can affect WordPress update behavior.
No. Disable & Manage Updates does not change your WordPress Debug Mode setting.
Yes.
WordPress update and admin behavior can be affected by other plugins, themes, must-use plugins, hosting configuration, wp-config.php, or custom code.
Disable & Manage Updates cannot guarantee that its settings will override external configurations.
Disabling automatic updates and disabling update checks are different settings.
WordPress may continue checking for available updates and displaying update information even when automatic installation is disabled.
Review your automatic update, background update check, and update information settings separately.
No. Update checks and automatic updates are separate controls.
Changing update-check settings does not necessarily change whether supported updates can be installed automatically.
No. Update information controls how update information is presented.
It is separate from the settings that determine whether supported updates can be installed automatically.
WordPress updates can include important security, bug-fix, and compatibility improvements.
If you choose to disable automatic updates, make sure you have another process for regularly reviewing and applying available updates.
Reviews
Changelog
2.2
– Redesigned the update settings interface for clearer and easier-to-understand controls.
– Improved controls for automatic updates, update checks, and update notifications.
– Added plugin and theme file editing controls with clearer status and production-site guidance.
– Improved Admin Control & Troubleshooting with better organization and additional controls.
– Improved update notification and Admin Bar handling while keeping update information available within the plugin.
– Improved trackback and pingback controls.
– Improved internationalization, save behavior, compatibility, security, and stability.
– Updated documentation, FAQs, installation instructions, and rating request.
2.1
– Improved notification and Admin Notice controls.
– Improved troubleshooting options.
– Compatibility and stability improvements.
2.0
– Added controls for WordPress automatic updates.
– Added plugin automatic update controls.
– Added theme automatic update controls.
– Added individual plugin update controls.
– Added individual theme update controls.
– Added translation update controls.
– Added background update check controls.
– Added update information controls.
– Added comment controls.
– Added Admin Bar controls.
– Added Admin Notice controls.
– Added troubleshooting options.
– Improved settings dashboard and user interface.