Do NOT update wordpress when auto-update is unselected

  • I can’t believe this is so difficult to implement. We have auto-update turned off. Yet you are still forcing updates and breaking crucial parts of our business websites.

    Just a week or so ago, we had to waste more time fixing your mess, and confirmed (by us, our webmaster AND our host) that auto-update was turned off.

    Today the site is forcibly updated to 5.5.2 and custom plugins are once again broken and our clients are once again frustrated.

    We are now forced to migrate to a different platform, since clearly WordPress doesn’t care about it’s customers.

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  • Thread Starter ronan87

    (@ronan87)

    It’s something to mess with some teens blog website… but to mess with our business websites when it’s a source of income, especially during those difficult times is completely unprofessional. We just had out host confirmed auto-update is off, yet WordPress updated and broke crucial client related parts of our sites.

    Thanks!

    Only minor updates are automatic, and I would think you would want security updates as soon as they are available or your site would be hacked.
    WordPress doesn’t have any “customers”, since nothing is for sale here.

    Perhaps a different platform is better for you, because custom code should not be so fragile.

    Dion

    (@diondesigns)

    WordPress has had the ability to block minor version auto-updates for quite some time. Add the following two lines to your wp-config.php file just above the “That’s all, stop editing” comment, and the auto-updates should stop.

    define('AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED', true);
define('WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE', false);
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