Disable & Manage Updates

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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