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WP Disables Updates

by vinvin27 · Uncategorized

Also makes 2 other plugins · 710+ installs across the portfolio →

WP Disables Updates allow you to disables plugin or themes or wordpress core updates.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
46 Health · D
Maintenance 4/100
Rating quality 78/100
Support 70/100

46 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

Removal-risk signals

53/100

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 3+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 6.1.12.

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.

48 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 10/100
WP compatibility 46/100
Rating quality 54/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1392 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 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+31% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

124

now · peak 423

12430d downloads · Aug 26

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

WP Disables Updates · #7814 you Advanced Automatic U · #1154 Site Update Notifica · #20771 KP Zip Downloader · #4348

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

177per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

3.8y ago

latest release · v1.1.2

4

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.1.2 · 3.8y ago1.1.1.2 · 5.4y ago1.1.1 · 6.7y ago1.0.2 · 6.7y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 89% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.1 89%
v1.0 11%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “700+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
700–800 ≈750

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

Install history · since 2019-11-20 · 1,423 observations

700Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
1.1.3
Last updated
3.8y ago
Added
2016-10-23 · 9 yrs old
Requires WP
3.2
Tested up to
6.1.12
Requires PHP
5.6

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. Ilya
    2.9y ago

    Thank you for your help!

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  2. Daniel Hendricks
    9.6y ago

    A simple and effective plugin to turn off WordPress update notifications selectively. I have found two uses for this so far: 1. When a premium theme is broken and is erroneously reporting that there is an update available and there is not. 2. When you want to disable certain update notifications on a production site because you prefer to test them locally, commit them to your repository and push the changes to production.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  3. Ydalb
    9.7y ago

    It fits my needs, thanks :o))))

    Read on wp.org ↗

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 6.1

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-07-18 800+ → 700+ down after 2 days in tier
  2. 2026-07-16 700+ → 800+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2026-07-15 800+ → 700+ down after 120 days in tier
  4. 2026-03-17 900+ → 800+ down after 1 days in tier
  5. 2026-03-16 800+ → 900+ up after 6 days in tier
  6. 2026-03-10 900+ → 800+ down after 1 days in tier
  7. 2026-03-09 800+ → 900+ up after 10 days in tier
  8. 2026-02-27 900+ → 800+ down after 1 days in tier

Competes with

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