Title: Automatic upgrade
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Automatic upgrade

 *  [mjoy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mjoy/)
 * (@mjoy)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-upgrade-12/)
 * So, I don’t know if this is the right place to post this, but I don’t even care
   at this point.
 * My question is, why the heck does WP update automatically?! Half of my sites 
   are broken because of this!
    In all config files, I’ve turned off automatic core
   updates, yet – this is still happening! No notification email even!
 * Half my WP themes are now broken, because I didn’t know that I have to make them
   work for 4.1.1 and also, half the stuff in wp admin are broken too?!
 * I noticed that this happened to one of my websites a few days ago, but I didn’t
   bother to check the rest. And so far, only way to fix this is to perform a clean
   4.0 install with the current database and just copy my plugins and themes.

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 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-upgrade-12/#post-5980535)
 * WordPress updates minor versions automatically for security reasons. This should
   explain more: [https://codex.wordpress.org/Configuring_Automatic_Background_Updates](https://codex.wordpress.org/Configuring_Automatic_Background_Updates)
 * From what version did your installation upgrade to 4.1.1?
 *  Thread Starter [mjoy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mjoy/)
 * (@mjoy)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-upgrade-12/#post-5980536)
 * This really is annoying, as far as I remember, in older versions there was an
   automatic update.
 * Is there no other way to downgrade? I’ve tried copying 4.0 files on to the current
   install, and it does downgrade, however things are still very messed up. Only
   way so far was clean install with current database and then copy my wp-content.
 * As for what version, the sites I’ve checked had either 4.0 or 4.0.1
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-upgrade-12/#post-5980539)
 * It would be strange for WordPress to upgrade a major version automatically – 
   I _think_ 4.0 to 4.1 is a major upgrade but do correct me if I’m wrong.
 * Could you double check with your hosting providers to see if they’re doing some
   automatic upgrades?
 *  Thread Starter [mjoy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mjoy/)
 * (@mjoy)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-upgrade-12/#post-5980541)
 * Well, for sure I didn’t do them myself, because all of my themes are custom and
   it takes me a while to update a dozen websites.
 * Already checked a few times, first update was on 1st of April as far as I know,
   on Friday I asked them to return a backup, but since they keep it only for 1 
   day back – that was of no help.
 * And again, is there an easier way to downgrade? It really takes me quite a while
   to do what I’m doing right now.
 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-upgrade-12/#post-5980565)
 * > It would be strange for WordPress to upgrade a major version automatically –
   > I think 4.0 to 4.1 is a major upgrade but do correct me if I’m wrong.
 * You’re right. 😉
 * _*Drinks coffee*_
 * The major version numbers will never and have never automatically upgraded. For
   example, 4.0 will never upgrade to 4.1 (the second number is the major release
   number).
 * 4.0 _will_ automatically update from 4.0 to 4.0.1. Plugins and themes will not
   automatically upgrade*.
 * > In all config files, I’ve turned off automatic core updates, yet – this is 
   > still happening! No notification email even!
 * See the * above? When a plugin represents a major security concern (major as 
   in **“BANG! your site is totally compromised!”**) then a plugin will be automatically
   upgraded. That’s only happened twice as far as I am aware.
 * If you’ve configured your site against upgrades then it’s either your host that’s
   doing it or something else.
 * What did you configure to stop the upgrades?
 *  [MarkRH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markrh/)
 * (@markrh)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-upgrade-12/#post-5980566)
 * FYI, I have the following in my **wp-config.php** file and have had nothing auto
   update since:
 *     ```
       # DISABLE WORDPRESS UPDATES
       define( 'AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED', true );
       ```
   

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-upgrade-12/#post-5980566)
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