Find out in this tutorial how to hide the WordPress automatic updates option for a given plugin.
WordPress 5.5 introduced quite a few new features, among them, the option to indicate that plugins should be automatically updated.
This is useful, but if you are managing client sites you may want to hide plugin activation/deactivation from their view as you learned in this tutorial.
Do you need more options?
You can also hide the automatic updates option granularly for a particular plugin and have it display a message instead:
This is intended for plugin creators who want to endow them with this behavior.
But you can also use it in any plugin you are interested in to prevent your client from touching it “unintentionally”.
Is this your case? Here’s how to do it:
Snippet to prevent the update of a plugin in WordPress
Add the following code snippet to your functionality plugin:
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In this case, I have used Easy Digital Downloads as an example, but you can replace its slug (easy-digital-downloads) by the one of the plugin you are interested in.
You can also modify the message displayed in the plugins screen.
Remember, if you are not using it as the plugin creator, this does not prevent updates from being done automatically (if enabled), but simply displays a message instead of the option to modify it from the plugin page.
Conclusions
Do you want to prevent a particular plugin from displaying the option to auto-update in WordPress? Now you know how to do it with a simple code snippet.
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