Title: Disabling automatic WordPress Update
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Disabling automatic WordPress Update

 *  [skip2theend](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skip2theend/)
 * (@skip2theend)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-automatic-wordpress-update/)
 * Hey all. I need to disable the option that updates the WordPress core automatically.
   Every time this has happened, my site has messed up and taken me days to sort
   out. I don’t want it to happen yet again.
 * How can I stop it from updating automatically? And I’m not the most technical
   person in the world, so a detailed, step-by-step summary would be appreciated
   please.
 * Thank you.

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 *  [innuvo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/innuvo/)
 * (@innuvo)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-automatic-wordpress-update/#post-5605401)
 * If you have FTP access, you can find your wp-config.php file within the main 
   wordpress installation folder, and add the following line of code to that file
   to disable all automatic updates:
 * `define( 'AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED', true );`
 * Source: [WordPress Codex](http://codex.wordpress.org/Configuring_Automatic_Background_Updates)
 *  Thread Starter [skip2theend](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skip2theend/)
 * (@skip2theend)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-automatic-wordpress-update/#post-5605407)
 * Ok, thanks. Guessing you mean in my provider’s hosting? And where should I add
   the line of code? Anywhere? Cheers.
 *  [innuvo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/innuvo/)
 * (@innuvo)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-automatic-wordpress-update/#post-5605423)
 * Yeah, whoever you have your hosting through will have provided you with a hosting
   control panel. Within that you should have a File manager of some sort, or access
   to create FTP accounts, which you can then use a program such as Filezilla to
   connect to your site via FTP using the details you used to create the FTP account
   if you do it that way.
 * And just put the code at the bottom of the file, that should work fine.
 *  Thread Starter [skip2theend](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skip2theend/)
 * (@skip2theend)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-automatic-wordpress-update/#post-5605652)
 * Thank you! Sorry for the delay been very busy, attempting it now.
 *  Thread Starter [skip2theend](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skip2theend/)
 * (@skip2theend)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-automatic-wordpress-update/#post-5605653)
 * Is there any way to confirm that it has worked? No worries if not, I’ve managed
   to add it anyway. Cheers for your help.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [skip2theend](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skip2theend/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-automatic-wordpress-update/#post-5605653)
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