Title: Clean WordPress Updates
Author: Arjan Olsder
Published: <strong>April 10, 2018</strong>
Last modified: December 11, 2024

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# Clean WordPress Updates

 By [Arjan Olsder](https://profiles.wordpress.org/arjanolsder/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wpa-clean-updates.1.4.zip)

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 *  [Installation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/wpa-clean-updates/#installation)
 * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/wpa-clean-updates/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wpa-clean-updates/)

## Description

With every major WordPress Core Update, WordPress.org will be pushing out new versions
of it’s own plugins and themes. What this plugin does is block that new content 
from downloaden onto your webserver.

There are a few good reasons you want this:
 * Avoid backups being unneededly big
in size * Avoid longer backup creation and restore times * Lower the risk of getting
hacked due to heaps of unused PHP code on your webserver

This is an UltraFast plugin. This means it will not use the database connection,
it will not create a settings screen etc. Effectively it is only a single line of
code we are adding to WordPress.

### Credits

Thanks go out to the public at the WordPress Meetup in Nijmegen for brining up this
issue and solution.

### License

This file is part of WP Clean Updates.

WP Switch Clean Updates On is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

WP Switch Clean Updates On is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with WP 
Switch Clean Updates On. If not, see [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/).

## Installation

 1. Upload the complete wpa-clean-updates folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
 2. Go to the Plugins page and activate the plugin.

## FAQ

### Will this plugin slow down WordPress?

No.

### Is this plugin compatible with update management plugins?

Yes.

### What security considerations are there in using this plugin?

There is no input/output handling in this plugin at all.

### Will there be future updates to this plugin?

Yes, but only version bumps. There is still no need to change the coding.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Clean WordPress Updates” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Arjan Olsder ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/arjanolsder/)

[Translate “Clean WordPress Updates” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wpa-clean-updates)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpa-clean-updates/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wpa-clean-updates/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wpa-clean-updates/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wpa-clean-updates/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.4 11-12-2024

 * Rebranding the plugin again as it is now part of the WebsiteNazorg.nl family 
   of services.
 * We removed the donation link.

#### 1.3 28-06-2022

 * Another rebranding as we are streamlining our business to digishock.com. There’s
   still no need to alter the code.

#### 1.2 11-06-2019

 * Rebranding release as we will streamline the branding of simple tools like these.
   From now on, they will fall under wpswitches.com.

#### 1.1 07-06-2019

 * Version bump

#### 1.0 26-03-2018

 * First release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.4**
 *  Last updated **1 year ago**
 *  Active installations **100+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.3 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.7.5**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpa-clean-updates/)
 * Tags
 * [core](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/core/)[updates](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/updates/)
   [WordPress](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/wordpress/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/wpa-clean-updates/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Arjan Olsder ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/arjanolsder/)

## Support

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