Disable Theme and Plugin Auto-Update Emails

Description

This plugin disables the default notification emails sent by a site after an automatic theme and/or plugin update. Simply activate the plugin to disable these email notifications.

This is a simple and lightweight plugin that uses the official filters made available as of WordPress 5.5 to disable these email notifications upon activation. By default, it allows update failure notifications through, but you can disable these as well through the Settings => General page.

Check things out on GitHub for more information.

Other Notable Features

Here are a few other notable features of this free Disable Theme and Plugin Auto-Update Emails plugin.

email notifications

plugin update

theme update

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FAQ

You can simply enable this to disable these notifications. Deactivating the plugin then has it resume default behavior. A simple implementation that’s quick & easy to utilize. Consider enabling/disabling the plugin the setting for whether or not these email notifications are disabled or not.

Also, this does let notifications about failed updates to be delivered by default as they can be important. There is a “Disable failed update email notifications” setting on Settings => General to disable update failure notifications as well, if/when there’s a need for it.