Better instructions on disabling auto-updates

  • Hi all-

    Basically something involved with the auto-update feature is breaking the front/blog page of my site. Every other page works except the landing page. It is the holidays and I really don’t have time to futz around with this.

    I followed the WP developer’s link to how to disable the auto-update feature, but cannot seem to get it to work.

    Because it wants to auto-update every time I try to get into my admin panel, I am having to edit the wp-config.php file through cPanel at my host. I am just unclear where to put in the relevant code. I tried putting it into different places but it either 1) didn’t work, or 2) broke the site completely. (I’ll be the first to admit that coding is not my strong suit. That is why I use WordPress, to save me the hassle)

    Any assistance would be helpful to get me through the holidays and then I can take the time to manually go through and see what part of my website/plugins is breaking this.

    Thanks,

    Jeff

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  • Because it wants to auto-update every time I try to get into my admin panel, I am having to edit the wp-config.php file through cPanel at my host.

    If you are talking about plugin updates, you can disable those with this:
    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/block-specific-plugin-updates/

    I am just unclear where to put in the relevant code.

    Here is what I have near the end of wp-config to block all automatic updates:

    /** Disable All Automatic Updates */
define( 'AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED', true );
/** That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

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