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1. therealhopeful
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   Hello. I have a legacy website that I am trying to get operational again. This is simply for demo purposes, so I am not interested in upgrading to the latest version of Wordpress. I have already tried this, and it breaks the custom theme I wrote for the site. I do not have the time to re-write the theme.

   What I would like to do is disable the version check in the admin panel. Is there a way to do this, or am I on my own? Thanks.

2. MichaelH
   moderator
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/disable-wordpress-core-update/
   or
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/core-control/

3. therealhopeful
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   Thanks, Michael, but a plugin isn't very helpful when Wordpress won't even give me access to the admin page, unless I upgrade. I think I solved the problem, though. I commented out these lines near the top of admin.php, and that seemed to do the trick:
   

   if ( get_option('db_version') != $wp_db_version ) {
   	wp_redirect(get_option('siteurl') . '/wp-admin/upgrade.php?_wp_http_referer=' . urlencode(stripslashes($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])));
   	exit;
   }

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