Title: Disabling automatic updates via wp-config.php
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Disabling automatic updates via wp-config.php

 *  Resolved [Jacob Gotwals](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacob-gotwals/)
 * (@jacob-gotwals)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-automatic-updates-via-wp-configphp/)
 * Is there any way to disable automatic updates via wp-config.php or some other
   way that doesn’t require me to log in? I am concerned about the hypothetical 
   case where a plugin update causes a problem that prevents me from logging in…
   because if I would then restore my site from a backup, automatic updater would
   run again immediately and I still wouldn’t be able to log in.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/automatic-updater/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/automatic-updater/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Gary Pendergast](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pento/)
 * (@pento)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-automatic-updates-via-wp-configphp/#post-3948259)
 * I like this idea! I’ve [just added the AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED wp-config option](http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/743856),
   it’ll be available in the next release.
 *  Thread Starter [Jacob Gotwals](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacob-gotwals/)
 * (@jacob-gotwals)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-automatic-updates-via-wp-configphp/#post-3948317)
 * Great! Thanks!

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 * Last reply from: [Jacob Gotwals](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacob-gotwals/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-automatic-updates-via-wp-configphp/#post-3948317)
 * Status: resolved