59
Disable WordPress Update Notifications and auto-update Email Notifications
Silence is golden until your site stops updating entirely.
Growing
59/100
The plugin silences annoying alerts but often breaks actual updates and user emails.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.2★
19 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+13%
Growing
20 → 23 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
- MINORnot updated in 12 months
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing · +13% in the last year
20/day a year ago→23/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayDisable WordPress Update Notifications is praised for reliably silencing update alerts, but several users report it can unintentionally block core updates and email notifications, with compatibility issues on newer WordPress versions.
What people like
- +Disables plugin, theme, and core update notifications and auto-update email alerts as intended×4
- +Works as described, simple and unobtrusive×2
- +Provides the functionality for free
- +Earlier checkbox-disappearance bug was fixed after an update
Common complaints
- −Blocks all updates, not just notifications, breaking site update processes
- −Produces an error on version 6.9.4 and cannot be installed (since 6.9.4)
- −Also blocks new user email notifications with no setting to control it
- −After a WordPress update, disables the auto-update feature for all plugins
- −Does not work on WordPress 5.8 and above and support requests go unanswered (since 5.8)
- −Earlier bug where all checkboxes on the settings page disappeared
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.21★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.20★
- 0%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-10-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 19 total
Latest reviews · 19 analyzed
- 2026-04-22★★★★★Weiße Seite: ‘Das Plugin hat keinen gültigen Header'kleinananas
- 2026-04-21★★★★★Does not work as advertised…jakobward
- 2025-05-09★★★★★Thank you!pitzputz
- 2024-12-10★★★★★Blocked User Notifications Tootansandals
- 2024-10-17★★★★★I think your descriptions are wrongshoulders1024
- 2024-07-29★★★★★Excellent – Thank You!James1101
- 2024-07-29★★★★★Good pluginHaste
- 2024-06-18★★★★★Lethal flaw since last updatehimalayande
- 2024-03-06★★★★★Greatleolivenl
- 2024-02-23★★★★★Simple and Effective plugin to disable auto-update Email NotificationsAshna
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
22
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
23
Prior 7-day baseline
16
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
46
Mean release-day peak (30d)
29
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-4.3%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
18%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.91
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
79%
5★ share in analyzed sample
0%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.21 → 4.21★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered