How To Stop/Disable WordPress Plugin Update Notifications

The most annoying thing is when you update a plugin you’ve customiz and it overwrite what you’v done so far. Just like the MobilePress Plugin which its update changes everything.

By default, WordPress automatically check for plugins updates if available, and if yes, it recommended you to update the specific plugin. It is useful in most cases, but when building websites for clients you may not want them to updates plugins, for example if you modified a plugin especially for them. Here is an easy way to disable plugin updates on any WordPress blog.

This can be perfumed in many ways and in just an easy fast ways. This can be done manually and this can be done with the use of plugins.

How To “Automatically” Disable Plugin Update Notification In WordPress

To Disable Plugin Update Notification for all Plugin down and installed the Plugin bellow

• Disable WordPress Plugin Update

To Disable specific plugin update (just one, two or more) download and install the plugin bellow

• WP Manage Plugins

How To Manually Disable WordPress Plugin Update In WordPress

Assuming you wanted to disable plugin for different plugin mannually. Just follow the steps bellow.

1. Login to your WordPress Dashboard

2. Appearance > Editor > Function.php

and paste the bellow code at the very last line.

Lets say we are disabling update for mobilepress plugin. It will be as bellow.

3. Save and thats all.

Note: To stop update from other plugin you will need to know their root name. To find this logon to your cpanel and navigate to

…wp-content/plugins/

there you’ll see the list of all your plugin click on anyone you wanted to disable update for, a .php file will be in that folder. Copy the name of the file and the folder name to replace the mobilepress we use in the code above.

Reasons Why You Should Not Stop Update Notifications

It is very important that you keep your WordPress plugins up to date. If you don’t, then your blog could be susceptible to security vulnerabilities or performance issues. Some developers or consultants like this ability because they do not want the clients to upgrade a plugin (just in-case if it breaks the site). This is not a very good reason. You are potentially risking security, performance, and additional features all because of a fear that the site will break down due to an upgrade. It does not take that long to downgrade a plugin if the site breaks.

Please do comment if any error occurs.