How do I know I don’t have auto update on?

Why do you not want this? By not updating WordPress, your theme, or the installed plugins you could be opening website up to future discovered vulnerabilities by skipping / missing security updates.

You could install a plugin that disables updating but I wouldn’t recommend it.

You might want to re read the title and the main text of the thread. I don’t want Auto Update.

WordPress, out of the box by default, doesn’t have a button to enable or disable auto-updating. If you’re familiar with code you can add in the hooks to disable auto updates:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Configuring_Automatic_Background_Updates#Plugin_.26_Theme_Updates_via_Filter

The plugin previously suggested would disable auto-updates and you could manually update everything. Additionally, there’s the Easy Updates Manager which claims to make the process a bit easier to manage though I can’t say I’ve used it before.

thanks, forget about code ugh…

But not out of the box, WordPress, I have a few workpress sites. WordPress does not have an auto update option? That good then…. I was wondering if I had chosen to auto update.

Now for plug ins they often have auto update? How do I make sure if I enabled to auto update in the past, I can go back to manual update. Or case by case hard to do/ know?

WordPress does auto-update out of the box by default. What I meant is that out of the box there is no option to simply turn it off through the admin panel. You either need code, a plugin, or one of the plugins suggested above to help you disable auto-updates. So in the past, auto-updates are enabled – you would need to go out of your way to disable them, using a plugin.

If you disable auto-updates you would need to manually go in and update everything. Again, this is not recommended though.

Actually it seems it does not.. I see it ask to update. It say there is a new version, would like to update.

Anyone else on this?

WordPress does auto-update out of the box by default.

For core WordPress, yes it does. For example if you’ve WordPress 4.9.5 then you should be automatically updated to 4.9.6. It’s possible your host disabled that but most hosts do not. They hate being the host of sites that aren’t maintained. Or you may have a version that does not work.

It’s possible you fit under one of those categories. You can always manually updated.

Plugins and themes do not auto update by default. For that you either need to update some code or use a plugin. I use this one for that very reason.

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/update-control/

Yes, it has not been updated in 2 years. It doesn’t need to as it still works and my plugins and themes are kept updated.