Title: Deactivate automatic plugin updates
Last modified: June 29, 2017

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# Deactivate automatic plugin updates

 *  Resolved [jjbte](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jjbte/)
 * (@jjbte)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivate-automatic-plugin-updates/)
 * I recently updated one of my sites to Jetpack 5.0. I notice that my dashboard
   now displays Plugin Updates as active. I absolutely do NOT want this, but I cannot
   see where to deactivate it. The newer versions of Jetpack make it much more difficult
   to find and change settings. I have never manually turned on auto plugin updates,
   so I don’t know how it got turned on, but I need it OFF right away.
 * My WooCommerce plugin automatically updated tonight and now I have a ton of work
   and testing to do to ensure it is working properly. It’s late so I am forced 
   to just shut down my store for the night.
 * The only thing I can see that would have caused this is Jetpack. I have auto 
   updates disabled through my host and I have never had plugins automatically update
   before. The only change is the recent update of Jetpack to 5.0. I have another
   site running Jetpack 4.9 and its Jetpack dashboard simply tells me I have two
   plugins that need to be updated.
 * Please tell me how to deactivate this ASAP. I cannot have this happening on my
   WooCommerce site.

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 *  [lamday](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lamdayap/)
 * (@lamdayap)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivate-automatic-plugin-updates/#post-9282791)
 * Can you please try logging into the WordPress.com dashboard and then viewing 
   the ‘Plugins’ tab for your site? There should be an option to turn plugins on/
   off for auto-updates there. If WooCommerce is showing having that feature turned
   off then can you please try adding this line of code into your wp-config file:
 * define( ‘AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED’, true );
 *  Thread Starter [jjbte](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jjbte/)
 * (@jjbte)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivate-automatic-plugin-updates/#post-9284896)
 * Thank you for your reply. On the night I posted, I was unable to view my plugins
   via WordPress.com. I received a message that they could not be retrieved. Jetpack
   was working fine otherwise. I could see that I was connected and other Jetpack
   features were working properly. In addition to WooCommerce, another plugin updated
   on its own the following day.
 * Now I can see my plugins via WordPress.com. All have autoupdates set to off. 
   I do not know if the problem will recur because I have not had any of my plugins
   make updates available during the past few days. So I guess I will have to wait
   and see.
 * I’d rather not turn off updates via my wp-config file because I do not want to
   miss out on minor security updates that are pushed out automatically.
 * My host (SiteGround) does offer auto update, but I currently have it disabled
   on all my WordPress installations. Also, I know it was not my host that caused
   the plugin updates because my WordPress version would have also updated (from
   4.7.5 to 4.8) and it did not. The WooCommerce site is the only one that is running
   Jetpack 5.0. My other installations are still running 4.9 and have not had any
   plugins update on their own despite having updates available. I have been with
   SiteGround for over a year and have never had plugins, etc. update on their own
   unless I had their auto update feature enabled on a particular WordPress installation(
   in which case WordPress itself was also updated automatically).
 *  [zzzaaabbb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/finlanderid/)
 * (@finlanderid)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivate-automatic-plugin-updates/#post-9293309)
 * [@jjbte](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jjbte/)
 * Same thing happened to me. Highly aggravating. I thought that there might be 
   a switch in the database for it but could not locate it. Is the setting only 
   stored at wordpress.com?
 * See images below for the reason that I cannot turn it OFF at wordpress.com.
 * This needs to be fixed. We cannot operate our sites if we cannot turn this OFF.(
   Fixed means that we need to be able to revert it back to OFF, not a “workaround”
   fix.)
 * Thank you.
 * In site admin on the domain:
 * ![site-admin](https://i0.wp.com/s15.postimg.org/z3hauw323/site-admin.png?ssl=
   1)
 * In wordpress.com jetpack dashboard for plugin management:
 * ![wordpress.com-admin](https://i0.wp.com/s13.postimg.org/ce7zi1g93/wordpress.
   com-admin.png?ssl=1)
 *  Thread Starter [jjbte](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jjbte/)
 * (@jjbte)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivate-automatic-plugin-updates/#post-9293363)
 * All of my plugins had Autoupdates off, yet Jetpack updated on its own earlier
   this evening. I need to have control over my own website.
 * I do not recall ever enabling Jetpack Manage on my WooCommerce installation and
   I do not want it on. I found a way to deactivate it by going to the Debug link
   at the bottom of my site’s Dashboard page. On the next page is a link to “Access
   the full list of Jetpack modules available on your site.” I clicked that, found
   Manage in the list, and deactivated it. I hope that will stop this autoupdate
   problem, although I don’t believe Manage was enabled last week when my WooCommerce
   plugin updated on its own.
 *  [zzzaaabbb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/finlanderid/)
 * (@finlanderid)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivate-automatic-plugin-updates/#post-9295482)
 * [@jjbte](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jjbte/),
 * Perfect. Great work!
 *  Thread Starter [jjbte](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jjbte/)
 * (@jjbte)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivate-automatic-plugin-updates/#post-9295694)
 * I’m still anxious about this, [@finlanderid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/finlanderid/).
   I won’t know for sure one way or the other until I have a plugin that has an 
   available update. I’ll try to remember to report back here when that happens 
   and what the outcome is. I am encouraged by the fact that, on my Jetpack Dashboard,
   Plugin Updates now shows a slider switch set to off rather than displaying “ACTIVE”
   as it did before.
 * And for those who wish to use Jetpack Manage and prefer at least some of their
   plugins to NOT autoupdate, there is still a problem. As I stated, I had all my
   plugins set to autoupdates OFF. I checked and rechecked that setting at WordPress.
   com. Yet Jetpack autoupdated last night. I didn’t see any indication that 5.1
   was a security update that was pushed out automatically, so this should not have
   happened on my site even with Jetpack Manage enabled. Judging by your earlier
   post, it looks like the same thing may have happened to you.
 *  [zzzaaabbb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/finlanderid/)
 * (@finlanderid)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivate-automatic-plugin-updates/#post-9295782)
 * re: the setting at wordpress.com showing as “disabled” ..
 * That might be misleading, that it shows or showed as disabled. On my wordpress.
   com dashboard, it also showed as disabled, per plugin, but on hover it said something
   about connection was not being allowed. And, the area at the top for enabling
   all the plugins, in bulk, to have auto-updates was greyed-out. Together, those
   two symptoms indicated something else interfering with those controls.
 * _Then_, I noticed in Debug (on site Jetpack admin) that I did not have a clean
   connection to Jetpack. One of the tests was not passing re: the site being connected
   to Jetpack at wordpress.com. That may have been caused by the major Jetpack upgrade.
   That would explain the odd appearance and behavior of the controls at wordpress.
   com for the plugins’ auto-update slider (and not being able to move it back and
   forth).
 * _So_, I disconnected and reestablished the primary Jetpack connection to the 
   site, and that error was resolved. Now, on wordpress.com, each plug-in has a 
   normal-looking On/Off slider with the label Active.
 * _In other words_, prior to fixing the “Jetpack connection” to the site, the fact
   that the plugins showed as Disabled on wordpress.com may have been meaningless.
   The ACTIVE setting (reflected on your site and stored at wordpress.com) may have
   been controlling, causing your updates.
 *  Thread Starter [jjbte](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jjbte/)
 * (@jjbte)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivate-automatic-plugin-updates/#post-9296425)
 * Jetpack does seem to have its quirks. Sometimes I get that connection problem
   message and sometimes I don’t. Disconnecting/reconnecting doesn’t help. I have
   a few WordPress installations on the same hosting account, and the WooCommerce
   one is the only one having this autoupdate issue (and only since I updated to
   5.0). I don’t have any of the plugins known to conflict with Jetpack, and my 
   XMLRPC file works properly. Other Jetpack functions (e.g., Protect, Monitor, 
   Photon) work properly as well.
 * For me, the option to bulk turn off autoupdates was available (at WordPress.com)
   and I used it before I deactivated Jetpack Manage. Before that, I did not hover
   over my plugins, but they all correctly displayed their status. I have one inactive
   plugin, and it displayed as such. I have several plugins that didn’t come from
   the WordPress repository, and they properly displayed as having autoupdates disabled(
   as opposed to a slider turned off).
 * I guess we’ll both have to wait and see what happens the next time we have a 
   plugin with an available update. Fingers crossed!
 *  [lamday](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lamdayap/)
 * (@lamdayap)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivate-automatic-plugin-updates/#post-9301166)
 * Hi there,
 * Jetpack won’t be able to interface with your sites for auto-updates if Manage
   is turned off, this is a definite way to stop this. Another option is to try 
   using this filter:
 * add_filter( ‘auto_update_plugin’, ‘__return_true’ );
 * Which will turn off auto-updates from your WordPress install.

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deactivate-automatic-plugin-updates/#post-9301166)
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