{"id":75848,"date":"2012-04-09T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=75848"},"modified":"2012-04-06T12:40:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T16:40:52","slug":"how-to-hide-the-update-reminder-in-wordpress-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/how-to-hide-the-update-reminder-in-wordpress-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Hide the Update Reminder in WordPress [Plugin]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you don\u2019t get around to updating your WordPress site right away.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the process is supposed to be a simple, one-click procedure, those of us who have experienced the collateral damage of WordPress updates in the past look at this procedure with dread. What if it breaks your plugins? What if it kills your database? What if it kicks your dog?<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox[75848]\" class=\"blog-thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/how-to-hide-the-update-reminder-in-wordpress-plugin\/update-reminder\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-75851\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-75851\" title=\"update-reminder\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/update-reminder.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"637\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who knows what could go wrong? You have to prepare for possible mishaps and have the time to fix them if they occur. For these reasons, it\u2019s easy to put off updating WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>If that\u2019s ever your case, you probably don\u2019t want clients or users seeing the update message from WordPress every time they log in. It\u2019s a nagging reminder that makes it seem as if something is wrong when there may not be any immediate reason to update to the latest version.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/hide-update-reminder\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hide Update Reminder plugin<\/a> lets you hide that reminder from all users except the administrator.<\/p>\n<p>Simply install it and activate it, and it will do its job.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/image-10991696\/stock-photo-update\" target=\"_blank\">Update<\/a> from BigStock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This plugin only allows administrators to see update messages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84404,"featured_media":75850,"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":[992,225],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-75848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plugins","tag-updates","tag-upgrades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75848","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\/84404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216281,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75848\/revisions\/216281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75848"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=75848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}