Title: Automatic update questions
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Automatic update questions

 *  [curlingdan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/curlingdan/)
 * (@curlingdan)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-update-questions/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/senff/)
 * (@senff)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-update-questions/#post-4798817)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/curlingdan/)
 * (@curlingdan)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-update-questions/#post-4798821)
 * 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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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [curlingdan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/curlingdan/)
 * Last activity: [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-update-questions/#post-4798821)
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