ExertSwitch – Disable Updates
ExertSwitch – Disable Updates is a lightweight toolkit for switching off the WordPress features you don’t want, all from one clean settings page with independent on/off toggles. Turn off update checks and notices (core, plugins, themes, automatic and email, premium plugins included), disable comment
ExertSwitch – Disable Updates is a lightweight toolkit for switching off the WordPress features you don’t want, all from one clean settings page with independent on/off toggles. Turn off update checks and notices (core, plugins, themes, automatic and email, premium plugins included), disable comments and post revisions, hide admin and PHP nags, and disable the built-in WordPress Sitemaps.
Unlike simple “activate and everything turns off” plugins, this plugin gives you a clean settings page with independent toggle switches, so you decide exactly what to disable and what to leave on. Turn off plugin update nags while keeping core security updates, disable sitemaps without touching updates, whatever fits your site.
Full control, one toggle at a time
Each of the following can be switched on or off independently:
- Disable WordPress core updates : Stop core version checks and update prompts.
- Disable plugin updates : Silence plugin update checks and notices for every plugin.
- Disable theme updates : Stop theme update checks and notices.
- Disable automatic (background) updates : Turn off WordPress’s silent auto‑updates.
- Disable update email notifications : No more “your site has been updated” / auto‑update emails.
- Hide admin update & maintenance nags : Clean up the dashboard and admin bar.
- Hide PHP version notice : Remove the Site Health “outdated PHP” nag (note: this hides the notice; it does not change your server’s PHP).
- Disable comments : Close comments and pingbacks site-wide, hide existing comments, and remove the Comments admin menu, dashboard widget and toolbar item.
- Disable revisions : Stop storing new revisions for all content types (posts, pages and custom post types) to reduce database bloat; autosaves and existing revisions are kept.
- Disable WordPress Sitemaps : Disable the WordPress core auto‑generated sitemaps and remove the sitemap line from the virtual robots.txt .
Covers premium & third‑party plugins too
Most “disable updates” plugins only block requests to api.wordpress.org , so premium plugins that check their own update servers for example Slider Revolution, and other commercially licensed plugins keep nagging you to update. This plugin is designed to suppress update notices for all installed plugins, so no plugin is skipped.
