Ignore Or Disable Plugin Update

Description

There are cases where we might not want to update a plugin right away.

• It can be a major version jump, possibly with edge-case bugs or deprecated features.
• It can be a minor version jump, which doesn’t always justify a diff to make sure custom hooks still work.
• It can just be because we want to wait a few days, to let other people confirm that everything works correctly (or to check that nobody is screaming “broken site” in the support forum).

Whatever the reason, it could be helpful to temporarily hide these updates. Unlike other update management plugins, Ignore Or Disable Plugin Update Update works on a version-per-version basis.

Ignore Or Disable Plugin Update adds an “Ignore update” link in the WP Plugins listing page, and one the WP Updates page.

You will be able to:

• Ignore a plugin update for a chosen amount of days
• Ignore a plugin update until the next version
• Permanently ignore all future updates for any plugin
• Unignore plugin updates at any time by going in the “Plugins”->”Ignored Updates” WP menu
• Control admin notifications
• [Premium] Automatically delay the apparition of plugin updates
• [Premium] Integrate WordFence to get security warnings on your installed plugins (WordFence plugin and plan not required)
• [Premium] See warnings from the “Plugins” and “Updates” pages
• [Premium] Automatically unignore vulnerable versions
• [Premium] Prevent ignoring vulnerable versions
• [Premium] Get informed in real time by email

Multisite

The free version of the plugin is not compatible with multisite. For multisite compatibility, you will need the Premium Business Plan.

Plugin auto-updates

Our plugin will respect your plugin auto-update settings. You won’t be able to ignore specific plugin versions if auto-updates are activated.

Third Party Services

We use the services of Freemius,Inc as a Merchant of Record to handle payment, licensing, and billing information.
Their privacy policy can be consulted here.

Screenshots

Installation

1. Visit the Plugins page within your dashboard and select “Add New”
2. Search for “Ignore Or Disable Plugin Update”
3. Click “Install”

FAQ

Will this plugin slow down my site?

It will have no impact on site speed whatsoever. The plugin only launches for users that have the ability to update plugins.

Reviews

Very handy for managing plugin updates

Nic Windley October 1, 2024 1 reply

Managing plugin updates for large complex sites can be a real pain. This makes things a lot more pleasant. Often we identify bugs and are forced to roll back some plugins whilst other updates are working fine. The option to prevent an update until the following release is especially useful, although we can do this in our global WP management tool (across all sites if needed), it doesn’t yet reflect in the plugin admin interface of each site. It would be good to see this integrated into WordPress management tools.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

1.2.4

• Improvement: Removed an early check on get_site_transient to improve stability when WP runs its wp_clean_plugins_cache function after a plugin update

1.2.3

• Fix: PHP warning when switching back from Premium to Free

1.2.2

• Tested up to WordPress 6.7
• Freemius SDK updated to 2.9.0

1.2.1

• Fix: Regression that was preventing the “Stop Ignoring” buttons from working properly

1.2

• New: Free 30-day trial of Premium Supporter features
• Fix: Clean up list of ignored updates when a plugin was removed from the WP repository
• Improvement: Better escaping of html attributes in accordance to WP coding standards

1.1.7

• Fix: PHP warning when a plugin had an ignored update, but then the plugin was deleted
• [Premium] Fix: In some edge case, Autopilot would not display the correct update type
• Freemius SDK updated to 2.8.1

1.1.6

• Fix: The wrong ignored count could be shown when manually updating a plugin via FTP
• Freemius SDK updated to 2.7.4

1.1.5

• Fix: In some edge case, the list of ignored plugin updates would not display the good ignored plugin version
• Tested up to WordPress 6.6
• Minimum PHP version bumped to 7.2
• Freemius SDK updated to 2.7.3

1.1.3

• Freemius SDK updated to 2.7.0

1.1.2

• Improvement: Some strings were rephrased to improve their translatability

1.1.1

• Fix: Typos in some translatable strings

1.1

• Fix: some translatable strings that couldn’t be parsed by WP
• Added JFG Media as author and contributor
• Tested up to 6.4.2

1.0

• Initial Release