How to Disable Automatic Update Email Notifications in WordPress?

WordPress has the feature of automatic updates of WordPress core, plugins, and themes. And WordPress sends email notifications after every safety update of WordPress core, plugins, and themes. But sometimes it may become annoying to getting continuous automatic update emails, also those emails are not that much necessary. If you don’t know how to disable automatic update email notifications in WordPress, this article is for you. So, let’s see how to disable automatic update email notifications in WordPress.

Should you enable auto-updates?

Updates can be released quite frequently sometimes. Keeping the core, all the plugin and themes updated can be very tough. And if you own more websites it’s harder to keep all the plugins and themes updated. That’s the reason; WordPress came with an auto-update feature with their 5.5 version. Now, you can set your site to automatically update the core, plugins and themes as soon as they release a new version. But it has also some downside like sometimes a new update of any plugin can break your site design. So decide either you want to keep automatic update enable or not.

How to disable automatic update email notifications in WordPress?

Disabling automatic updates can be done in two ways. One is using a plugin and another is by adding code. Today we will learn both the methods so that you can choose your preferred one.

1. Using plugin:

The beauty of WordPress is you will get plugins for every single change you want to make on your site. There is no exception in this case. To disable automatic update email notifications with a plugin, first, you need to install and activate the Manage Notification E-mails.

Once you activated the plugin, navigate to ‘Settings > Notification e-mails’. On this page, you can see enable/disable option for several types of WordPress email notifications. Now scroll down and uncheck the email notification options for WordPress core, plugins, and themes.

Don’t forget to click the ‘Save Changes’ button.

2. By adding code:

You can disable auto-update email notifications by adding code to your WordPress file. For doing that, you can use plugins like Code Snippets or just add the code to your theme function.php file.  If you want to add the code on the functions.php file, go to ‘Appearance > Theme Editor’. You will see the functions.php file on the ‘Theme Files’ tab on the right side of your computer screen.

i) Disable automatic update email notification for WordPress core:

All you need to do is copy the following code and paste it on your WordPress file to disable WordPress core auto update email notifications.

add_filter( 'auto_core_update_send_email', 'wpb_stop_auto_update_emails', 10, 4 );
function wpb_stop_update_emails( $send, $type, $core_update, $result ) {
if ( ! empty( $type ) && $type == 'success' ) {
return false;
}
return true;
}

ii) Disable automatic update email notification for plugins:

Add the following code for disabling automatic update email notifications for your installed plugins.

add_filter( 'auto_plugin_update_send_email', '__return_false' );

iii) Disable automatic update email notifications for Themes:

Add the following code to disable email notifications for automatic updates of WordPress themes.

add_filter( 'auto_theme_update_send_email', '__return_false' );

Once you are done with adding code for disabling automatic update email notifications on functions.php, save the change by clicking on ‘Update File’.

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