Best automatic update plugins for WordPress
The most popular automatic update plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Disable All Update Notifications leads with 40+ active installs, ahead of Disable Automatic Background Updates (10+). All 2 plugins tagged “automatic update” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 2 automatic update plugins
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Disable All Update NotificationsThe most installed automatic update plugin, with 40+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 3 months ago.
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Disable Automatic Background Updates10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.1.28.
All 2 plugins tagged “automatic update”
Disable All Update Notifications
Up in the last 7 days:157#22,917by Geenen IT-Systeme GmbH3 months ago
Simply disables all update notification emails (core, themes, plugins). No configuration needed.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Disable Automatic Background Updates
Up in the last 7 days:816#33,859by Milan Dinić7 years ago
Disable all automatic background updates.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day