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This can save you from problems!

Update Control · review · 2014-11-21T12:22:00+00:00

Update Control plugin evidence original source source API

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Conversation

review · 5 stars

Techload unresolved

As another reviewer already said, there should be an option in WordPress itself to disable updates. In the meanwhile, this is the plugin to use. Yesterday several of my client’s websites were broken because of the 4.01 update. You can imagine all the troubles I am facing. Not all themes developers are quick to provide a fix, for instance.So, I immediately installed this plugin on all websites to prevent future problems. As another reviewer already said, there should be an option in WordPress itself to disable updates. WordPress doesn’t want to do this because they encourage you to update to the latest version of the WordPress core. Which is prone to all kinds of incompatibility with themes and plugins, breaking websites. But it only breaks for some environments, so it shouldn’t be in core. It is still a good idea for a plugin, but not for the core.

Commercial Context

Opportunity

hosting operations and site health

Updates site-health operations for keeping hosted WordPress sites healthy across caching, updates, backups, and support handoffs

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams

Wedge: monitor updates health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions

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Analysis

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Summary: This can save you from problems!: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence quote: As another reviewer already said, there should be an option in WordPress itself to disable updates.

Affected feature: bugs

bugs compatibility missing feature setup

Plugin

API

Update Control

4.0K active installs · 46.7K downloads · rating 88.0

automatic updates updates

Comments

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Matthew 2014-11-21T14:38:00+00:00

As another reviewer already said, there should be an option in WordPress itself to disable updates. WordPress doesn’t want to do this because they encourage you to update to the latest version of the WordPress core.

Techload 2014-11-21T14:40:00+00:00

Which is prone to all kinds of incompatibility with themes and plugins, breaking websites.

Andrew Nevins 2014-11-21T14:53:00+00:00

But it only breaks for some environments, so it shouldn’t be in core.

Matthew 2014-11-21T15:41:00+00:00

It is still a good idea for a plugin, but not for the core.