Block Plugin Update

78 Quality Score

Active Installs

17/30

About 6,000 active installs puts this in the mid-range of niche utility plugins: well-known enough to be trusted, but not a mainstream tool.

Update Freshness

25/25

Updated within days of this assessment and tested against WordPress 7.0, the maintenance signal is excellent and suggests the developer is actively keeping pace with core releases.

User Rating

13/15

An 88 out of 100 from 19 voters is a strong score, though the small sample size means it is more of an indicator than a definitive consensus.

Support Health

8/15

Zero support threads opened and zero resolved means there is simply no public track record yet, so you cannot rely on community help if something breaks.

WP Compatibility

15/15

Compatible back to WordPress 3.0 and tested on the latest 7.0 release, giving it one of the broadest compatibility ranges of any plugin reviewed.

Scores higher than 61% of indexed plugins

About

This plugin blocks the updates for specific plugins. You can select the plugins from plugin setting page.

Active Installs 6k+

Rating ★★★★ 4.4/5

Last Updated 2026-06-25 5:17pm GMT

Requires WordPress 3.0+

Tested Up To 7.0.4

Security History

1 known vulnerability, all patched

1 Medium

Most recent: September 27, 2023

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What It Does

Block Plugin Update lets site administrators select specific plugins from a settings page and prevent them from receiving updates in the WordPress dashboard. Update notifications for the chosen plugins are suppressed, giving administrators full manual control over when (or if) those plugins are upgraded.

Who It's For

This is best suited for agencies, managed hosting providers, and IT teams running multi-site networks or regulated environments where a specific plugin version has been certified and must remain frozen. It also helps staging environments and legacy system maintainers who need to avoid accidental upgrades breaking a known-good configuration.

Who Should Skip It

If you manage a single small site with only a handful of plugins and you trust automatic updates, this tool adds needless complexity. Likewise, anyone who simply wants to disable all updates should look at a broader maintenance plugin rather than cherry-picking individual ones.

The Bottom Line

Block Plugin Update does exactly one job and does it cleanly, earning a solid 77.62 overall quality score driven by strong maintenance and compatibility. The lack of any support history is the main caveat, so users should be comfortable troubleshooting on their own or contacting the developer directly. For controlled, compliance-driven WordPress environments, it is a lightweight and reliable choice.