Title: disable Auto update?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# disable Auto update?

 *  [banamazon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/banamazon/)
 * (@banamazon)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-auto-update/)
 * I just got an email saying that my site was automatically updated to 3.8.3. What’s
   up with that?
    How do I disable the function that automatically updates stuff
   on my site? Since when is that built in? how infuriating. Thanks for any advice.

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 *  [bemdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bemdesign/)
 * (@bemdesign)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-auto-update/#post-4824402)
 * This functionality has been included inside WordPress since 3.7. Auto-updates
   only happen for minor security updates. For the vast majority of website they
   work quite well and help keep websites up to date with the latest security patches.
 * Auto-updates do not work with sites using source control, sites that are using
   a managed host like WP-Engine, or if it detects that it can’t completed the update
   in that particular instance. So that would be one way to prevent auto-updates–
   use source control.
 * Otherwise, please read [http://codex.wordpress.org/Configuring_Automatic_Background_Updates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Configuring_Automatic_Background_Updates)
   for ways to manage the auto-update feature.
 *  Thread Starter [banamazon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/banamazon/)
 * (@banamazon)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-auto-update/#post-4824407)
 * Thanks for such a quick response and for the link to the info.

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 * [settings](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/settings/)

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 * Last reply from: [banamazon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/banamazon/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-auto-update/#post-4824407)
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