The following documentation will help you to learn how to enable and disable WordPress Automatic Updates.
How to Enable Automatic Updates
1) Log into your cPanel account
2) Choose the ‘File Manager’ option.
3) Then go to the folder which you have saved the WordPress installation files.
4) Right-click the ‘wp-config.php’ file for editing.
5) Search for define (‘AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED’, true);
6) Delete the line from the wp-config.php file.
7) Click the button ‘Save Changes’ in the top right-hand corner of the editor to save your changes.
How to Disable Automatic Upgrades
We strongly recommend that do not disable your automatic upgrades unless it’s absolutely required.
1) Log into your cPanel account
2) Choose the ‘File Manager’ option.
3) Then go to the folder which you have saved the WordPress installation files
4) Search for wp-config.php file.
5) Insert the following line after the initial “define” statements, right above the Authentication Unique Keys and Salts. Please check the below screenshot.
define( ‘AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED’, true );
6) Click ‘Save Changes’ button to save the changes.
How to Enable or Disable WordPress Automatic Updates from the Command Line
You can also edit this from the command line.
1) Login to the cPanel account via ssh
2) Go to the folder which you have saved the WordPress installation files
3) Edit the wp-config.php file using the vi or nano editor.
# vi wp-config.php file
4) To enable the WordPress Automatic Updates, delete the following line from the wp-config.php file and Save the changes.
define (‘AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED’, true);
5) To disable the WordPress Automatic Updates, Insert the following line after the initial “define” statements, right above the Authentication Unique Keys and Salts.
define (‘AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED’, true);
6) Save the changes.
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