Disabling automatic WordPress Update

  • Hey all. I need to disable the option that updates the WordPress core automatically. Every time this has happened, my site has messed up and taken me days to sort out. I don’t want it to happen yet again.

    How can I stop it from updating automatically? And I’m not the most technical person in the world, so a detailed, step-by-step summary would be appreciated please.

    Thank you.

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  • If you have FTP access, you can find your wp-config.php file within the main wordpress installation folder, and add the following line of code to that file to disable all automatic updates:

    define( 'AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED', true );

    Source: WordPress Codex

    Thread Starter skip2theend

    (@skip2theend)

    Ok, thanks. Guessing you mean in my provider’s hosting? And where should I add the line of code? Anywhere? Cheers.

    Yeah, whoever you have your hosting through will have provided you with a hosting control panel. Within that you should have a File manager of some sort, or access to create FTP accounts, which you can then use a program such as Filezilla to connect to your site via FTP using the details you used to create the FTP account if you do it that way.

    And just put the code at the bottom of the file, that should work fine.

    Thread Starter skip2theend

    (@skip2theend)

    Thank you! Sorry for the delay been very busy, attempting it now.

    Thread Starter skip2theend

    (@skip2theend)

    Is there any way to confirm that it has worked? No worries if not, I’ve managed to add it anyway. Cheers for your help.

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