apply_filters( "auto_update_{$type}", bool|null $update , object $item )
Filters whether to automatically update core, a plugin, a theme, or a language.
Description
The dynamic portion of the hook name, $type, refers to the type of update being checked.
Possible hook names include:
auto_update_coreauto_update_pluginauto_update_themeauto_update_translation
Since WordPress 3.7, minor and development versions of core, and translations have been auto-updated by default. New installs on WordPress 5.6 or higher will also auto-update major versions by default. Starting in 5.6, older sites can opt-in to major version auto-updates, and auto-updates for plugins and themes.
See the ‘allow_dev_auto_core_updates’, ‘allow_minor_auto_core_updates’, and ‘allow_major_auto_core_updates’ filters for a more straightforward way to adjust core updates.
Parameters
-
$updatebool|null -
Whether to update. The value of null is internally used to detect whether nothing has hooked into this filter.
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$itemobject -
The update offer.
Source
File: wp-admin/includes/class-wp-automatic-updater.php.
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$update = apply_filters( "auto_update_{$type}", $update, $item );
Changelog
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 5.5.0 | The $update parameter accepts the value of null. |
| 3.7.0 | Introduced. |
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Note that the filters mentioned above will not stop WP from visiting the update endpoints using the HTTP API. The following URLs will be checked on a regular bases even with the filters above set to disable updates:
https://api.wordpress.org/core/version-check/...
https://api.wordpress.org/plugins/update-check/...
https://api.wordpress.org/themes/update-check/...
If you want to completely stop update checking, e.g. for performance reasons while coding or during acceptance testing, removing the following filters will ensure that the update endpoints are not checked:
/**
* ! These actually stop the HTTP API requests!
* Copied from WP_Customize_Manager->construct()
*/
remove_action( 'admin_init', '_maybe_update_core' );
remove_action( 'admin_init', '_maybe_update_plugins' );
remove_action( 'admin_init', '_maybe_update_themes' );
add the code snippet to disable automatic WordPress plugin updates.
add the code snippet to disable automatic WordPress themes updates.