Turning Off Auto-Update

  • How do I turn off any automatic updating forever? Client’s site just went dead. Had to reinstall.
    When I could laod the site I get the An automated WordPress update has failed to complete BS.

    How do I disable this pestilence? So it never, ever comes back?

    Thank you.

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  • Your key to bliss:
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Editing_wp-config.php#Disable_WordPress_Auto_Updates

    I know you’re aggravated and I would be too, but I’d rather my site choke like that than to have to clean up a hacked site. The recent update was pushed through to close a newly-discovered hole that could allow bad things to be done to a site via the comments system. Hope you’re able to get everything sorted right again very soon!

    Adding the following to wp-config.php will turn them off:

    # DISABLE WORDPRESS UPDATES
define( 'AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED', true );

    Thread Starter seedy

    (@seedy)

    Thank you both for your patient and timely replies. All my sites are now disabled.

    There are ironies here, but the best one is that I got emails confirming updates accomplished, but nothing whatsoever when one of them failed.

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