How to stop WordPress updating automatically

Auto updates only apply to minor/security release, say 3.9 to 3.9.1
Major releases (3.9 to 4.0 to 4.1) still require manual updating.

If you still want to disable the auto-updating, add this line to your wp-config.php file

define( 'WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE', false );

Thanks for this Barnez

It is REALLY annoying, I operate about 250 wordpress sites and now I have to go around them all because some bright spark at WordPress thinks they know better.

I have seen this kind of think cripple other platforms. You get some update rushed out and it cripple sites, I want to update because time and time again I have seen updates cripple sites.

It is like the lost functionality on the pictures in WordPress, you have to wonder which idiot thought “I know, let’s take a function that we have had for years and change it, we won’t tell anyone we will just do it”.

This is what happens when you get people with no commercial acumen promoted beyond their ability or allowed to make decisions.

Anyone with any common sense would have OPTIONS to have a simpler interface with low functionality and the same goes for this security fix. I want an option on the settings page and not to have to put in a hack in WP-CONFIG.

Man I could smack some people sometimes!

end of rant