Title: Automatic Update
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Automatic Update

 *  [juliedc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juliedc/)
 * (@juliedc)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-update-21/)
 * Hi, there does anyone know of a way to turn off automatic updates. My site is
   down from the update to 4.1.1 – down as in the custom functionality I’ve had 
   to use to make it work the way I need it to, is no longer working rendering the
   site essentially useless. I found a plugin but it is not compatible with 4.1.1
 * It appears that changes to a category widget are not updating when I save and
   t his is what is causing it. I also will need help understanding what it will
   take to roll my site back to a functioning version, I believe I was on 4.0.1 
   and it was sold.
 * Any help appreciated. I am in distress that my site is down in the middle of 
   our busiest time of year. Thanks!

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 *  [bernbe01](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bernbe01/)
 * (@bernbe01)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-update-21/#post-5811425)
 * i’ve used [this plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/stops-core-theme-and-plugin-updates/)
   when needed with luck to disable all or specific kinds of updates
 *  [bernbe01](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bernbe01/)
 * (@bernbe01)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-update-21/#post-5811426)
 * and to address your second part, restoring is easy if you have a backup of the
   wp database. more helpful if you have full backups
 * what format of backups do you have available to you?
 *  Thread Starter [juliedc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juliedc/)
 * (@juliedc)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-update-21/#post-5811485)
 * Hi Bernbe, I only backup weekly so will lose all of my changes for the past week
   which is troubling, of course.
 *  Thread Starter [juliedc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juliedc/)
 * (@juliedc)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-update-21/#post-5811494)
 * Well, I’ve got it working again in Firefox but not Chrome or IE which may be 
   a cache issue. I have dumped cache in both but am unable to see the updates that
   I see in Firefox. Odd, but I’ll continue to investigate. Thanks for the plugin.
   i had no idea that WP was going to update automatically. Harsh to come to the
   office in the morning, only to find the website no longer functions. With any
   luck, that won’t happen anymore with this plugin and I’ll have an opportunity
   to backup before any updates. Thanks again!

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 * Last reply from: [juliedc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juliedc/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-update-21/#post-5811494)
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