Turn off automatic WP Updates / nags

For those who are supremely annoyed by constant auto upgrade/update failure of WP, and emails saying “you should update…” (I got 3 in the past 24 hours from ONE website!).

Here’s how to turn this “noise” off:

To completely disable all types of automatic updates, core or otherwise, add the following to your wp-config.php file:
define( 'AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED', true );

(We have various websites which are not “owned” by server, but the system tries to upgrade and cannot write to the folder; others we have special security permissions, also unable to write to folder; will ALWAYS fail auto-upgrade. No switch in WP, because the “we think we know what we’re doing” folks at Automattic refuse to listen to some users on this kind of thing.)

• This topic was modified 12 years by simchris.