Tag: disable wordpress update check

WordPress 5.5 has a function to enable or disable automatic updates of themes or plugins. After the plugin or theme has been updated, you will receive an email notification. You will also be notified if the automatic update fails.

If a newer version of the plug-in can be updated, clicking Enable Automatic Updates will schedule the plug-in to be updated within 3 hours.

Note: Only plugins that are available in the WordPress plugin library can be updated automatically.

Should you enable automatic updates?

Enabling automatic updates is crucial for users who manages their own website without plugins or theme for customization and don’t have time to manually update their plugins. However, if you run a website with custom plugins or themes, if they are not compatible, automatic updates may break them.

If you decide to turn on automatic updates, the next question is email notifications for automatic updates.

Issues with automatic update of email notifications
Automatically update emails/photos from WordPress plugins

When the theme or plugin is automatically updated, you will receive an email notification. If you manage a website with one or two plugins installed, notifications are not a problem. However, if you run multiple websites, notifications will be too many and annoying. When your developers update their plugins frequently, they can become even more overwhelmed.

To give you peace of mind, you need to turn off automatic update email notifications. Here is how to do it.

How to turn off automatic update email notifications

To prevent WordPress from sending you email notifications about automatic updates of themes or plugins, you need to install a plugin called “Disable email notifications for automatic updates”. The size of the plug-in is only 2kb and will not affect the loading speed of your website.

After installing the plugin, all plugins and themes will be automatically disabled by updated email notification.

Other WordPress email notifications that are not related to automatic updates will be sent as usual.

Method 1: Disable Automatic Update Email Notification with the Plugin

This method is simple and does not require adding any code to your WordPress site.

To disable WordPress Core Update you will first need to install and activate Email. For more information, check out our step-by-step guide to installing WordPress plugins.
The plugin works out of the box and does not require you to configure any settings.

Activation simply deactivates the email notification that is sent after WordPress is automatically updated.

Method 2: Use code to disable automatic update email notifications

For this method you need to add code in wordpress file. If you haven’t already, check out our beginners guide to learn how to insert snippets from a webpage into WordPress.

You need to add this code in functions.php file of your theme or website specific plugin.

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add_filter( 'auto_core_update_send_email', 'wpb_stop_auto_update_emails', 10, 4 ); function wpb_stop_update_emails( $send, $type, $core_update, $result ) {if ( ! empty( $type ) && $type == 'success' ) {return false;}return true;}

This code just adds a filter to turn off email notifications once the core is updated automatically.