{"id":315959,"date":"2013-10-27T14:46:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T13:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/disable-automatic-updates-wordpress-3-7\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T03:17:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T01:17:56","slug":"disable-automatic-updates-wordpress-3-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/disable-automatic-updates-wordpress-3-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Disable Automatic Updates in WordPress 3.7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2013\/10\/25\/the-definitive-guide-to-disabling-auto-updates-in-wordpress-3-7\/\">make.wordpress.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The biggest feature of the new <strong>WordPress 3.7<\/strong> release is automatic updates for minor versions (from 3.7.1 to 3.7.2, for example). Since these updates usually <em>close important security holes<\/em>, automatic background updates are a big and, in my view, <em>very sensible new achievement<\/em> for WordPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are of course cases where <strong>automatic updates<\/strong> in the background are not wanted, or in rare cases not possible (the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/background-update-tester\/\">Background Update Tester plugin<\/a> tells you whether your installation can handle them). Then Andrew Nacin&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2013\/10\/25\/the-definitive-guide-to-disabling-auto-updates-in-wordpress-3-7\/\" title=\"disable automatic updates in WordPress 3.7\">guide on the Make WordPress Core blog<\/a> shows how to disable automatic updates with a constant in <em>wp-config.php<\/em> (see steps 3 and 4 of the guide).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>make.wordpress.org The biggest feature of the new WordPress 3.7 release is automatic updates for minor versions (from 3.7.1 to 3.7.2, for example). Since these updates usually close important security holes, automatic background updates are a big and, in my view, very sensible new achievement for WordPress. There are of course cases where automatic updates in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":315941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[910],"tags":[2065,1466,2071],"class_list":["post-315959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wordpress-en","tag-automatic-updates","tag-visitenkarten-en","tag-wordpress-3-7-en","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phlOHV-1kc7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/link-auto-updates.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315960,"href":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315959\/revisions\/315960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}