Title: Staunch
Author: Scott Cariss
Published: <strong>March 19, 2013</strong>
Last modified: March 19, 2013

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Staunch

 By [Scott Cariss](https://profiles.wordpress.org/l3rady/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/staunch.2.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/staunch/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/staunch/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/staunch/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/staunch/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/staunch/)

## Description

Automatic upgrades on live sites are, we think most people would agree, a Bad Idea.
You can’t test them before they go live; they’ll play havoc with your version control
system, if you’re using one; and if they fail or screw up, your live site is broken.
Bad. Idea.

Enter Staunch. Staunch makes you stick to best practice for upgrades, by preventing
even admins and superadmins from running WordPress’s automatic upgrade processes
on your live site.

When you want to upgrade WordPress, you can do so on a local or development install
of your site; after you’ve tested it and made sure everything’s okay, you can then
deploy the site as you usually would — through version control, FTP, or something
else.

## Installation

 * Install Plugin
 * Activate plugin
 * Place `define( 'CAN_UPDATE', true );` in the config file of your development 
   site. Sites that don’t have this line will be prevented from upgrading.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Staunch” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Scott Cariss ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/l3rady/)

[Translate “Staunch” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/staunch)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/staunch/), check out
the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/staunch/), or subscribe to
the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/staunch/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/staunch/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 2.0

 * Supports Multisite installs

#### 1.0

 * Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Version **2.0**
 *  Last updated **13 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.5.2**
 * Tags
 * [control](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/control/)[core](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/core/)
   [git](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/git/)[svn](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/svn/)
   [themes](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/themes/)[updates](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/updates/)
   [version](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/version/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/staunch/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Scott Cariss ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/l3rady/)

## Support

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