Grade A

Disable All WordPress Updates

Name: Disable All WordPress Updates
Rating: 4.7 (68 reviews)
Author: wpseek

⤓ Download v1.9.1 on WordPress.org ↗

by wpseekupdated 2026-05-23🌟The Rising Star

A quick dashboard with a side of manual security chores.

HealthyGrowing

92/100

This lightweight utility boosts admin speed by blocking background checks but requires manual security management.

Loved33/40

Trustworthy14/15

Fair & Honest15/15

Maintained18/18

Momentum12/12

✂️

You might not need this plugin. Its core job is small enough to live in your theme's functions.php.

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// Disable core, plugin, and theme update checks
add_filter( 'pre_option_update_core',    '__return_null' );
add_filter( 'pre_option_update_plugins', '__return_null' );
add_filter( 'pre_option_update_themes',  '__return_null' );

remove_action( 'wp_version_check',    'wp_version_check' );
remove_action( 'wp_update_plugins',   'wp_update_plugins' );
remove_action( 'wp_update_themes',    'wp_update_themes' );

add_filter( 'auto_update_core',   '__return_false' );
add_filter( 'auto_update_plugin', '__return_false' );
add_filter( 'auto_update_theme',  '__return_false' );

// Remove update nag and dashboard widget
remove_action( 'admin_notices', 'update_nag', 3 );
add_filter( 'site_transient_update_core',    '__return_false' );
add_filter( 'site_transient_update_plugins', '__return_false' );
add_filter( 'site_transient_update_themes',  '__return_false' );

Keep in mind:This snippet does not remove the Updates menu item from the admin dashboard; additional hooks are needed for that cosmetic detail.

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Active installs

~25,000

our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+

→ on track for 30k+in ~3 months

Rating

4.8★

68 ratings

Trend · vs a year ago

+132%

Growing fast

95 → 221 installs/day

Downloads over time

real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend

2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03

organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median

Growing fast · +132% in the last year

95/day a year ago→221/day today

Reviews

what people actually say

Disable All WordPress Updates is a well-regarded, lightweight utility that users consistently credit with meaningful admin-side speed improvements, though it carries the inherent caveat that it must be temporarily disabled to keep WordPress core, plugins, and themes up to date.

What people like

+Noticeably speeds up WordPress admin pages by blocking background update-check requests to WordPress.org servers×7
+Eliminates persistent admin notices and nag banners from plugins×2
+Useful workaround when a host is blocked from reaching WordPress.org update servers, preventing long backend page-load delays
+Reported to work reliably across multiple WordPress versions over several years×3
+Particularly effective on sites with many plugins or WooCommerce active×2

Common complaints

−Requires the user to remember to temporarily disable the plugin to apply updates — easy to neglect and leave sites unpatched
−The plugin has not received updates in a long time, causing it to rank poorly in WordPress.org search results despite still functioning correctly
−Does not suppress the update indicator in the WordPress admin bar, with no hook available to remove it

Review trustReviews look organic

4.74★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
9%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members

Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower

2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04

5★ reviews1–4★ reviews

All-time ratings · 68 total

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Latest reviews · 68 analyzed

2025-03-08★★★★★Must have for Performance welaunchio
2025-01-29★★★★★Really speeds up the dashboard doublecleanse
2024-12-17★★★★★An awesome plugin that I've used for years!pinkish1
2024-09-26★★★★★A saviour when your host is blocked by wordpress.org…jonjennings
2024-08-15★★★★★Great plugin mariohandsome
2024-04-09★★★★★on my mu-plugin-list hardyzbest
2023-11-10★★★★★Спасибо maxim23
2023-07-28★★★★★best just i can say best rezapch
2023-06-15★★★★★Simple and efficient cvladan
2023-06-15★★★★★Very site should use this with a separate MainWP instance for updates 🥰Marcus Quinn

Releases

recent versions from WordPress.org SVN

2026-02-15v1.9.0
2026-02-15v1.9.1
2024-12-17v1.8.0
2023-01-17v1.7.1
2021-11-11v1.7.0
2021-08-29v1.6.8
2021-01-03v1.6.7
2019-10-28v1.6.6

For developers & the curious

the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary above

Download 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.

204

Baseline · median of last 7 organic days

219

Prior 7-day baseline

164

Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days

455

Mean release-day peak (30d)

261

Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)

-6.8%

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.

13%

Max month share · biggest single 30-day window

1.84

Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty

91%

5★ share in analyzed sample

Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity

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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo

4.75 → 4.74★

Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered