Comments on: Disabling the update nag

By: Jehzeel Laurente

Jehzeel Laurente — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:49:53 +0000

Exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks for this Joost! :)

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:27:00 +0000

Does this still work for 2.8 Joost?

Not sure if a plugin could interfere with it but it does not seem to work on my 2.8.

By: TeMc

TeMc — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:55:39 +0000

Hey, thanks a lot.

Our WP-powered site runs a webshop (the awesome "wp-ecommerce" plugin) but that one is NOT compatible with WP 2.8.0 so therefor it was annoying that all Editors and Writers saw "There's an update to Wordpress, please contact the siteadministrator" - and I had to explain what's going on.

Leaving it on for me is fine.

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Thanks again,
TEMC

By: frederick

frederick — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:24:20 +0000

i tried your code to show update prompts to admin only, but it seems it was hiding from admin only. I changed =="admin" to !=="admin" and it worked for me. I also removed the reference to $user_email because I couldn't see what it was there for.Here is the updated code that worked for me:


global $user_login;
get_currentuserinfo();
if ($user_login !== "admin") {
add_action( 'init', create_function( '$a', "remove_action( 'init', 'wp_version_check' );" ), 2 );
add_filter( 'pre_option_update_core', create_function( '$a', "return null;" ) );
}

p.s. i'm just a hack, i could never have written this from scratch and your code (with tweaks) works like a dream. thanks for the awesomeness!

By: iSunya (iSunya)

iSunya (iSunya) — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 05:05:54 +0000

How to Disabling Wordpress the update nag via.http://yoast.com/disable-update-nag/

By: Jabz

Jabz — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:28:57 +0000

I did not know that. Just began to pickup Wordpress again for several projects. The auto updater/ multiblog sounded good to me. A lot happened since my last WP install. :) Thanks for the fine news.

By: Shirley

Shirley — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:43:18 +0000

Great code sample. I often just use the plugin, but I prefer this method.
@Rajaie, great CSS hack. I didn't think of that either. :-)

By: Golfkurs

Golfkurs — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:07:24 +0000

Thank god we don't have to fight with these kinda things after 2.7

By: Shelly Thomas

Shelly Thomas — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 07:34:28 +0000

Thank you so much, I was not even aware anyone else could see that nag, which I hate but I guess it's useful.

By: Hilmy

Hilmy — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:24:13 +0000

Perhaps those with multiple blogs should consider using single installation such as virtual multiblog, wp mu, wp-hive plugin etc. There's no more excuse as there's only one set of codes to update. Not doing updates is simply too risky in some cases.

By: Rajaie AlKorani

Rajaie AlKorani — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:56:52 +0000

Hey Joost,

That's a really good way, here's another one I used to make mine disappear a few months ago: http://www.rajaietalks.com/how-to-get-rid-of-the-annoying-wordpress-update-nag

Basically I made it go away by editing the CSS file.

Rajaie

By: Joost de Valk

Joost de Valk — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:49:34 +0000

Thanks for all the comments!

@Shanker: so right.

By: Shanker Bakshi

Shanker Bakshi — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:52:38 +0000

Thank god we don't have to fight with these kinda things after 2.7 (auto upgrade system )

By: iskandarX

iskandarX — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:07:48 +0000

Oh thats why I'm got notice for the update. Thanks for this tips.

By: Nathan P.

Nathan P. — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:30:38 +0000

Thanks for the post. Interesting to say the least, I have to wait until cPanel updates it's version, then update there. This would be nice so that only I know what the latest version number is.

By: gadget

gadget — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:00:29 +0000

Whilst we're on the subject of 2.6.5 .. is it stable, time to wait or time to upgrade? I thought 2.7 was due out in Nov anyway?

By: Michael Henry

Michael Henry — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:11:20 +0000

Its about time there was a plugin for that. I use WordPress for a multi-author blog and there is one user who will email me every time she sees that message come up!

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:37:45 +0000

What about a plugin that instead of disabling the nag entirely gives you the option to 'remind me later' - and then re-nags 1 day, week or other amount later... Then it can also tell you how long you have procrastinated.

I try to update when I can - but with a regular job, I can't always get to it right away. Sometime I need to wait for the weekend.

By: Antony

Antony — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:04:26 +0000

I have just started to use WordPress2.6.5 and this is really cool.

By: Martijn

Martijn — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:34:39 +0000

That is a nice way of handling this !

This nag has been bothering me for quite a while but just cutting it out of the code was too crude.