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Disable Automatic Background Updates

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Disable all automatic background updates.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

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41 Health · D

Maintenance 3/100

Rating quality 65/100

Support 70/100

41 health vs 56 average across 12,483 Uncategorized plugins

10+

Active installs

≈19 estimated

2.6K

Total downloads

since 2015

3.60★

Rating (adjusted)

0.0★ raw · 0 reviews

-69%

Downloads · 30d

trailing 30 days

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

Long abandoned. No update in 7+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.1.22, well behind 6.8.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

37 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 1/100

WP compatibility 13/100

Rating quality 49/100

Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2700 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,382 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-69% vs prior 30d

Oct 22

Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

now · peak 61

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Disable Automatic Ba · #32737 WP Auto Updater · #2647 Hide Updates · #3000 Update Control · #3600

Downloads per 1k installs · 30d

Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base

Estimated active installs

wp.org reports only “10+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate

10–20 ≈19

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,379 observations

Ratings · 0 reviews

Details

Version: 1.0
Last updated: 7.4y ago
Added: 2015-08-12 · 10 yrs on WP
Requires WP: 3.7
Tested up to: 5.1.22
Requires PHP: 5.2.4

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

2024-04-27 20+ → 10+ down after 357 days in tier
2023-05-06 30+ → 20+ down after 1 days in tier
2023-05-05 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in tier
2023-05-04 30+ → 20+ down after 5 days in tier
2023-04-29 20+ → 30+ up after 12 days in tier
2023-04-17 30+ → 20+ down after 3 days in tier
2023-04-14 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in tier
2023-04-13 30+ → 20+ down after 8 days in tier

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