Automatic update questions

  • curlingdan

    (@curlingdan)


    12 years ago

    Hi,

    I got an email from WordPress this morning saying that they had upgraded my website to the latest version. I never authorized this nor set it up to automatically update.

    Is there a setting somewhere so I can turn this off? I like to do this myself.

    Thanks,

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  • Senff – a11n

    (@senff)

    12 years ago

    I wouldn’t recommend turning this off — it would make your site more vulnerable once an security threat is known. It’s only minor updates that are being installed automatically, this is a feature added to WordPress since version 3.7, which is why you never had to authorize it.

    Having said that, the solution is simple. Add this line to your wp-config.php:

    define('WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE', false);
    Thread Starter curlingdan

    (@curlingdan)

    12 years ago

    Thanks for the info. I always do upgrade to the latest version, very fast and I like to control this since I make backups before any updates are done in case something goes wrong, no mater how small an update is.

    By you controlling this, then I don’t know about it until its done. At least if a warning email would come then yeah I could see that being an option. With this automatic updates, I loose the control and if something goes wrong then I will scratch my head figuring it out.

    But thanks again for the clarification and the code snippet.

    Dan

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