Title: Exclude plugin?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Exclude plugin?

 *  Resolved [inspirationally](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inspirationally/)
 * (@inspirationally)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-plugin-1/)
 * Is there any way to exclude a plugin from being automatically updated? I added
   this [http://developersmind.com/2010/06/12/preventing-wordpress-from-checking-for-updates-for-a-plugin/](http://developersmind.com/2010/06/12/preventing-wordpress-from-checking-for-updates-for-a-plugin/)
   to the said plugin, because I did a LOT customizations for one of the plugins
   and don’t like the current more complex version, but unfortunately Automatic 
   Updater overwrote everything and I had to restore the 500MB database.
 * [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)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-plugin-1/#post-3133574)
 * There’s a filter available called `auto_updater_plugin_updates`, which passes
   an array of all the plugins it intends to update. It’s the same array as `$plugins-
   >plugins` in the example you gave, so it should just be a matter of unsetting
   the array element with your `plugin_basename()` as the key.
 * Let me know how this goes!

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 * Last reply from: [Gary Pendergast](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pento/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-plugin-1/#post-3133574)
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