Title: Disabling auto updates
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Disabling auto updates

 *  [Krissy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/krissy/)
 * (@krissy)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-auto-updates/)
 * I read the huge article written Andrew, I just want to confirm something:
 * Where exactly am I adding the following term:
 *     ```
       # Disables all core updates:
       define( 'WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE', false );
       ```
   
 * wp-config?
 * My host has disabled just about every blog running on 3.7.1 for me claiming that
   I’m violating their MySQL Usage TOS. I know it couldn’t have been ‘hack’ related
   as I make it a point to keep everything as secure as possible, the only major
   change was upgrading from 3.7 to 3.7.1.
 * Either way I have 10 years of blog archives (on multiple domains) that I can 
   no longer access… and it’s 100% because of this recent WP update.
 * So to confirm, is it going in wp-config?

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 *  [Krishna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1nexus/)
 * (@1nexus)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-auto-updates/#post-4305407)
 * > wp-config?
 * Yes.
 * For other problems contact your host as it seems they are overenthusiastic about
   blocking everything for security.
 *  Thread Starter [Krissy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/krissy/)
 * (@krissy)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-auto-updates/#post-4305422)
 * Thank you Krishna.
 * I updated my wp-config file.
 * I’ve already contacted my host, but I’m sure anyone hosted with HostGator could
   easily agree they’re completely useless. They put a block on my .htaccess file
   and I’m not even allowed to override it myself or it will result in “Corrective
   Action”. So until someone gets off their booty and decides to answer one of my
   numerous ticket responses, I won’t even know if disabling the updates will work
   to avoid this issue from coming back up.
 *  [Krishna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1nexus/)
 * (@1nexus)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-auto-updates/#post-4305429)
 * > I’ve already contacted my host, but I’m sure anyone hosted with HostGator could
   > easily agree they’re completely useless.
 * I don’t think so as I have seen in recent times that a lot of problems reported
   are related to newly implemented server configurations and it is not limited 
   to one host. Some of them neither inform their users nor place proper instructions
   at their sites so that users can easily locate them and follow instructions to
   solve problems.
 *  Thread Starter [Krissy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/krissy/)
 * (@krissy)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-auto-updates/#post-4305432)
 * While I agree with your statement, I’m also dealing with on-going non-stop problems
   with them over the course of the past three months. I honestly wasn’t too surprised
   that they found yet another reason to shut something down. So I’ve been scrambling
   to figure out how to keep things up until I can transfer away from them completely.
 * Either way, I do think for all of the useless emails that hosts randomly send
   to customers, something like this (when they supposedly are up to date on technology)
   should have been noted since the 3.7.1 launch. If HG, or any host for that matter,
   was going to be unable to keep up with the new WP configuration, they should 
   have informed users otherwise, not just shut down every site they host that’s
   using 3.7.1 claiming it’s a MySQL/TOS violation.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Krissy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/krissy/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-auto-updates/#post-4305432)
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