Disable Wordpress Auto Update In the Middle of The Night

In case you haven’t noticed, WordPress auto-updates its core files by default. Neat but not always desired. Here is how to disable auto-updates with a few lines of code.

Rationale

Although WP’s auto updates are real neat, such functionality is not always desired. Like in the dead of night some script is changing stuff on your site with no humans to verify proper results. If something goes awry, it could leave your site down or even vulnerable for who knows how long until someone actually checks in to see what’s up. Avoid this scenario? Yes please. Read on to learn how (without a plugin)..

Disable auto-updates for the WordPress core

Add the following line to your site’s wp-config.php file:

define('WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE', false);
add_filter('auto_update_plugin', '__return_false');
add_filter('auto_update_theme', '__return_false');