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disable-update-notifications

Disable WordPress Update Notifications and auto-update Email Notifications

Disables WordPress core update notification and plugins update notification update checks and notifications.

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Download Momentum

180 days
554 658 -15.8% 4.3K

Source Evidence

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question support · high severity · relevance 0.83
security vulnerability

security vulnerability: users show security, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit disable admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
Proof Blocked card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity
security vulnerability Critical Problems: The Plugin “Disable WordPress Update Notifications” has a security vulnerability.
complaint review · high severity · relevance 0.78
Weiße Seite: ‘Das Plugin hat keinen gültigen Header’

The reviewer said the plugin failed immediately on activation across multiple sites with a white screen saying it had no valid header.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit disable admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
Proof Blocked card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity
When I installed the plugin, an error appeared immediately after activation.
mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.77
turn off update notifications for deactivated plugins only?

turn off update notifications for deactivated plugins only?: users show security, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit disable admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
Proof Blocked card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity
I really like this plugin so far, but it would be tremendously helpful if there was a way to use the plugin to only turn off notifications for deactivated plugins.
neutral support · high severity · relevance 0.58
Error Once ‘Hide Notifications’ Options are Enabled

Error Once ‘Hide Notifications’ Options are Enabled: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit disable admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
Proof Blocked card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Error Once ‘Hide Notifications’ Options are Enabled When I enabled some of the options in the plugin the website got a server error, so I removed the plugin files.
neutral support · high severity · relevance 0.52
PHP Fatal error – PHP 8.0.26

PHP Fatal error – PHP 8.0.26: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit disable admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
Proof Blocked card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity
PHP Fatal error – PHP 8.0.26 Hi the plugin throws a Fatal Error with PHP 8.0.26.
neutral support · high severity · relevance 0.52
Update Crashed Site

Update Crashed Site: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit disable admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
Proof Blocked card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Update Crashed Site Today’s update totally crashed my site.
neutral support · high severity · relevance 0.46
Will this disable Core security auto-update?

Will this disable Core security auto-update?: users show security pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit disable admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
Proof Blocked card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Will this disable Core security auto-update?
complaint review · medium severity · relevance 0.93
Does not work as advertised…

Does not work as advertised…: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit disable admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
Proof Blocked card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Does not work as advertised… Blocks ALL updates – not notifications.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.84
Hides all checkboxes in admin

Hides all checkboxes in admin: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit disable admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
Proof Blocked card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Exact same issue.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81
Error message

Error message: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit disable admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
Proof Blocked card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Error message constant dwnSettings – assumed ‘dwnSettings’ (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /var/sites/t/tonyscott.uk/public_html/wp-content/plugins/disable-update-notifications/index.php on line 97 Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /var/sites/t/tonyscott.uk/public_html/wp-content/p

Competitor Context

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Disable WordPress Core Update Email praise owner · intel 53.7 · weakness 37.4
praise owner
stale update history 1 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor updates health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
Disable Updates for WordPress Core, Plugins and Themes praise owner · intel 35.0 · weakness 20.4
praise owner
1 source link Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor updates health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions

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Collected Signals

20 shown from 38 collected
complaint Error Update support · 2026-05-19T09:18:26+00:00 · medium severity · core update

The user reports that the Disable Update Notifications plugin blocks automatic WordPress updates, but provides no further details.

Evidence: The plugin blocks automatic updates
bugs automatic updates hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit disable admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
complaint Weiße Seite: ‘Das Plugin hat keinen gültigen Header’ (1 star) review · 2026-04-17T08:30:04+00:00 · high severity · core update

The reviewer said the plugin failed immediately on activation across multiple sites with a white screen saying it had no valid header.

Evidence: When I installed the plugin, an error appeared immediately after activation.
bugs compatibility setup plugin installation hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit disable admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
complaint Does not work as advertised… (1 star) review · 2026-02-05T17:14:49+00:00 · medium severity · core update

Does not work as advertised…: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Does not work as advertised… Blocks ALL updates – not notifications.
bugs compatibility performance support hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit disable admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
praise Thank you! (5 stars) review · 2025-05-09T11:39:52+00:00 · medium severity · core update

Thank you!: users praise value, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Thank you fo taking the time to make this happen.
value hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit disable admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
complaint Blocked User Notifications Too (2 stars) review · 2024-11-19T17:18:30+00:00 · medium severity · core update

Blocked User Notifications Too: users show bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: The problems is it blocked all my new user notifications as well, so that when I added a new user, they never received the email.
bugs missing feature email hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit disable admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
praise I think your descriptions are wrong (5 stars) review · 2024-10-17T14:42:51+00:00 · medium severity · core update

I think your descriptions are wrong: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I think your descriptions are wrong From what I can tell your plugin does the following disables plugin updates disables theme updates disables wordpress core updates disables update notifications.
compatibility email hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit disable admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
praise Excellent – Thank You! (5 stars) review · 2024-07-29T14:00:13+00:00 · medium severity · core update

Excellent – Thank You!: users praise quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Excellent – Thank You!
quality hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit disable admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
praise Good plugin (5 stars) review · 2024-07-09T13:25:57+00:00 · medium severity · core update

Good plugin: users show compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: @haste18 This is features of this plugin, which will not show the notification in your dashboard and plugin & theme page.
compatibility missing feature quality email hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit disable admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
mixed Error Messages support · 2024-07-06T15:01:36+00:00 · medium severity · core update

Error Messages: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Error Messages Getting this load of Error Messages ans time the plugin is activated.
bugs compatibility support value hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit disable admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
praise Lethal flaw since last update (5 stars) review · 2024-06-18T12:39:35+00:00 · medium severity · core update

Lethal flaw since last update: users show compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Lethal flaw since last update It worked great – until the last (auto-) update.
compatibility missing feature quality woocommerce hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit disable admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
praise Great (5 stars) review · 2024-03-06T20:52:52+00:00 · medium severity · core update

Great: users praise value, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Great Does what it should do and what i wanted and all for free!
value quality hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit disable admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
praise Simple and Effective plugin to disable auto-update Email Notifications (5 stars) review · 2024-02-23T08:54:01+00:00 · medium severity · core update

Simple and Effective plugin to disable auto-update Email Notifications: users praise easy, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Simple and Effective plugin to disable auto-update Email Notifications Simple and Effective plugin to disable auto-update Email Notifications Simple and Effective plugin to disable auto-update Email Notifications
easy email hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit disable admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
mixed Feature request: Only disable emails, retain correct auto-update settings support · 2024-01-31T15:57:26+00:00 · low severity · core update

Feature request: Only disable emails, retain correct auto-update settings: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Feature request: Only disable emails, retain correct auto-update settings Thanks for making this – but sometimes it is helpful to see on the Admin side when an update is needed, like building a site sometimes I don’t always enable the auto-update for a plugin.
compatibility missing feature support hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit disable admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
mixed Error upon activation support · 2023-11-25T21:26:45+00:00 · medium severity · core update

Error upon activation: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Error upon activation Every time I click to Activate the plugin, I’m booted from the WordPress dashboard with the error message “Sorry, You Are Not Allowed to Access This Page”.
bugs compatibility value dashboard hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit disable admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
neutral Undefined array key “submit-nonce” support · 2023-11-14T14:03:19+00:00 · low severity · core update

Undefined array key “submit-nonce”: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Undefined array key “submit-nonce” Hi, the logs show a lot of this warnings [14-Nov-2023 13:58:22 UTC] PHP Warning: Undefined array key “submit-nonce” in /wp-content/plugins/disable-update-notifications/index.php on line 36 Hi, the logs show a lot of this warnings [14-Nov-2023 13:58:22 UTC] PHP Warning: Undefined array key “submit-nonce” in /wp-content/plugi
compatibility hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit disable admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
mixed Suggestion to improve description support · 2023-11-09T07:59:24+00:00 · low severity · core update

Suggestion to improve description: users show compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Suggestion to improve description Suggestion: It would be helpful to add the word email after “notifications” to remove ambiguity.
compatibility support email hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit disable admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
mixed turn off update notifications for deactivated plugins only? support · 2023-10-03T17:53:00+00:00 · high severity · core update

turn off update notifications for deactivated plugins only?: users show security, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I really like this plugin so far, but it would be tremendously helpful if there was a way to use the plugin to only turn off notifications for deactivated plugins.
security support spam hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit disable admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
praise Nice Plugin (5 stars) review · 2023-09-28T09:30:23+00:00 · medium severity · core update

Nice Plugin: users praise easy, value, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Nice Plugin This plugin offers a straightforward solution to disable bothersome WordPress update notifications and auto-update email notifications.
easy value email hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit disable admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
neutral Conflict with FluentSMTP support · 2023-09-09T05:05:04+00:00 · medium severity · core update

Conflict with FluentSMTP: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Conflict with FluentSMTP When this plugin is active, FluentSMTP cannot send emails.
compatibility email hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit disable admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
question security vulnerability support · 2023-06-17T23:42:03+00:00 · high severity · core update

security vulnerability: users show security, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: security vulnerability Critical Problems: The Plugin “Disable WordPress Update Notifications” has a security vulnerability.
security missing feature support form hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit disable admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure