{"id":74946,"date":"2012-03-27T10:50:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T14:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=74946"},"modified":"2012-11-20T15:27:33","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T20:27:33","slug":"daily-tip-how-to-block-specific-wordpress-plugins-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/daily-tip-how-to-block-specific-wordpress-plugins-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Block Specific WordPress Plugin Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updating plugins when they&#8217;re not compatible with your current version of WordPress can sometimes cause your site to crash. Maybe you&#8217;ve set up a site for a client and you&#8217;re worried about them accidentally updating plugins. You need a new plugin called <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/block-specific-plugin-updates\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Block Specific Plugin Updates<\/a>. It allows you to block updates from specific plugins. The settings panel gives you an easy way to select the plugins for which you want to block updates:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74948\" title=\"block-updates\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/block-updates.png\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"506\" height=\"453\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are a number of different scenarios where this might be useful. For example, if you have a few plugins that you&#8217;ve hacked and you want to be sure not to overwrite certain files when an update is released, this plugin will help you not to accidentally take the update. Download <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/block-specific-plugin-updates\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Block Specific Plugin Updates<\/a> for free from the WordPress plugin repository.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updating plugins when they&#8217;re not compatible with your current version of WordPress can sometimes cause your site to crash. Find out how you can block specific updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4099,"featured_media":74984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[992],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-74946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plugins","tag-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215962,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74946\/revisions\/215962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74946"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=74946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}