Title: Updates for disabled plugins?
Last modified: April 30, 2020

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# Updates for disabled plugins?

 *  [catmaniax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catmaniax/)
 * (@catmaniax)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates-for-disabled-plugins/)
 * Hello everyone!
 * I have some plugins deactivated on my site, for future use.
    However, I just 
   realized that at the update section of WordPress (/wp-admin/update-core.php) 
   it only checks and shows updates for the plugins that are enabled.
 * Is there a way to force a check for all the installed plugins, even if they are
   disabled?
 * Please let me know.
    Thanks!

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 *  [corrinarusso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corrinarusso/)
 * (@corrinarusso)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates-for-disabled-plugins/#post-12759586)
 * [@catmaniax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catmaniax/)
 * You shouldn’t really have plugins you are not using “hanging around on the site”.
   Just imo.
 * You can be explicit in your functions file, see here :
    [https://wordpress.org/support/article/configuring-automatic-background-updates/#plugin-theme-updates-via-filter](https://wordpress.org/support/article/configuring-automatic-background-updates/#plugin-theme-updates-via-filter)
 *  Thread Starter [catmaniax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catmaniax/)
 * (@catmaniax)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates-for-disabled-plugins/#post-12760427)
 * I know that I shouldn’t have installed inactive plugins but I leave some for 
   the time being.
    I don’t want automatic updates. I want to manually update.
 * The problem is that the udpates do not show in the update section, as I said 
   in my first post and that’s what I want to change/have.
 *  Thread Starter [catmaniax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catmaniax/)
 * (@catmaniax)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates-for-disabled-plugins/#post-12763446)
 * Bumping.
 *  [corrinarusso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corrinarusso/)
 * (@corrinarusso)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates-for-disabled-plugins/#post-12764059)
 * [@catmaniax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catmaniax/)
 * This is not default behaviour, so something is over-writing that.
    Do you have
   JetPack installed ? Can you share your URL?
 *  Thread Starter [catmaniax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catmaniax/)
 * (@catmaniax)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates-for-disabled-plugins/#post-12764066)
 * No, I do not have Jetpack.
 * I will see if it’s a plugin conflict.

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 * 5 replies
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 * Last reply from: [catmaniax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catmaniax/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates-for-disabled-plugins/#post-12764066)
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