Disable Plugin Autoupdate Emails

79 Quality Score

Active Installs

17/30

With roughly 6,000 active installs, popularity is modest but the score is boosted because installs are high relative to the very small addressable market for such a narrow utility.

Update Freshness

25/25

Maintenance is perfect: the plugin was last updated in June 2026 and the codebase is so small that ongoing changes are rarely needed.

User Rating

15/15

User ratings are outstanding, with a perfect 100/100 across 6 reviews, indicating no reported dissatisfaction among current users.

Support Health

8/15

Support health is weak because there are zero support threads opened or resolved, which can mean either that the plugin works so well nobody needs help or that users have nowhere to turn if something breaks.

WP Compatibility

15/15

Compatibility is perfect, tested against WordPress 7.0.0 and requiring only PHP 5.3, so it will run on virtually any modern WordPress installation.

Scores higher than 75% of indexed plugins

About

Getting too many "plugin updated" or "theme updated" emails since WordPress 5.5? This turns them off.

Active Installs 6k+

Rating ★★★★★ 5/5

Last Updated 2026-06-19 8:23pm GMT

Requires WordPress 5.5+

Tested Up To 7.0.0

Requires PHP 5.3+

✓ No known vulnerabilities

What It Does

Disable Plugin Autoupdate Emails is a narrowly focused plugin that stops WordPress from sending the auto-update notification emails introduced in WordPress 5.5. Once activated, it suppresses emails for plugin and theme auto-updates without affecting other WordPress notification behaviour or disabling the updates themselves.

Who It's For

This plugin is ideal for site administrators, agencies, and bloggers who receive dozens or hundreds of update emails and want to mute them without losing the actual auto-update functionality. It is especially useful for managed hosting providers and multisite operators who centrally handle updates and consider the per-site notifications redundant noise.

Who Should Skip It

If you rely on update emails as a signal that something changed on your site, or if you manage only one or two low-plugin-count websites where updates are infrequent, installing a dedicated plugin to silence emails is unnecessary.

The Bottom Line

Disable Plugin Autoupdate Emails does exactly one thing and does it well, earning an overall quality score of 79.42/100 driven by strong maintenance and ratings scores. Its narrow scope and tiny install base mean it is not a general-purpose solution, but for anyone drowning in WordPress auto-update emails it is a reliable, set-and-forget fix.

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