{"id":2594,"date":"2007-10-03T23:22:43","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T17:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/10\/disable-wordpress-version-and-plugin-update-checking\/"},"modified":"2020-04-01T16:43:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T11:13:50","slug":"disable-wordpress-version-and-plugin-update-checking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/10\/disable-wordpress-version-and-plugin-update-checking\/","title":{"rendered":"Disable WordPress Version and Plugin Update Checking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new version of WordPress 2.3 is released and a cool, much requested feature is that <strong>wordpress now automatically checks<\/strong> for new wordpress versions and new plugin releases and notifies you. But some people concerned about privacy and sharing issues can disable these features easily via some more plugins.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/disable-wordpress-core-update\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Disable WordPress Core Update<\/a> &#8211; thi plugin will disable the core update checking system and prevent WordPress from checking for updates, and prevents any notifications from being displayed in the admin area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/disable-wordpress-plugin-updates\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Disable WordPress Plugin Updates<\/a> &#8211; this plugin will disable the plugin update checking system and prevents WordPress from checking for updates, and prevents any notifications from being displayed on the Plugins page.<\/p>\n<p>These plugins are useful for webmasters who <strong>run multiple WordPress installations<\/strong> and do not require repeated similar information. Also if you are very concerned about what information is being shared, you can use these plugins for <strong>privacy issues<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>But it is easy to know your wordpress version, and most common wordpress plugins are easily visible at work; it is best to keep your wordpress versions and plugins updated, since they incorporate many security fixes (to protect your blog), besides new features and bug fixes.<\/p>\n<p>I personally have found this feature very useful as I do not need to keep checking for plugin updates every few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new version of WordPress 2.3 is released and a cool, much requested feature is that wordpress now automatically checks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-2594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}