10 Best Disable All WordPress Updates Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Disable All WordPress Updates has 10,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Disable All WordPress Updates
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Disable Updates
Closest matchDisable Updates – Updates Manager, Disable Automatic Updates, Disable All Updates
4.5 (24) 10,000+ active installsDisable updates and automatic updates for WordPress core, plugins, and themes, with the option to disable plugin or theme updates individually.
Shares the disable updates, update control tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated 17 days ago.
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4.8 (725) 300,000+ active installsManage all your WordPress updates, including individual updates, automatic updates, logs, and loads more. This also works very well with WordPress Mul …
Shares the disable updates, update control tags on WordPress.org. About 30 times the installs, last updated 6 days ago.
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4.7 (117) 60,000+ active installsEasily upgrade your themes and plugins using zip files without removing the theme or plugin first.
Shares the theme, update tags on WordPress.org. About 6 times the installs, rated 4.7 against 4.8, no update since April 20, 2022.
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FooGallery
Paid version availableGallery : FooGallery
4.8 (987) 100,000+ active installsFooGallery is a fast, responsive photo gallery and image gallery plugin with 7 gallery layouts, built-in lightbox, albums, and SEO optimization.
About 10 times the installs, last updated 3 days ago.
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Modula Image Gallery
Paid version availableModula Image Gallery – Photo Grid & Video Gallery
4.7 (614) 100,000+ active installsCreate responsive image galleries with drag-and-drop grid builder. Custom layouts, video support, AI optimization. Works with any theme.
About 10 times the installs, rated 4.7 against 4.8, last updated 10 days ago.
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4.5 (33) 70,000+ active installsAn easy to use plugin to add an animated preloader to your website with fully customisations.
About 7 times the installs, last updated May 18, 2026.
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The Post Grid – Shortcode, Gutenberg Blocks and Elementor Addon for Post Grid
4.8 (265) 100,000+ active installsDisplay WordPress posts in beautiful grid, list, slider, and filter layouts. Works with Gutenberg, Elementor, Divi, and Shortcodes.
About 10 times the installs, last updated 14 days ago.
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Starter Templates & Sites Pack by ThemeGrill
4.7 (197) 70,000+ active installsPremium starter sites and website templates by ThemeGrill. Import demo content, widgets, and theme settings with one click.
About 7 times the installs, rated 4.7 against 4.8, last updated 17 days ago.
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3D FlipBook – PDF Embedder, PDF Flipbook Viewer, Flipbook Image Gallery
4.8 (182) 70,000+ active installs3D FlipBook is PDF Viewer, allowing to browse images, PDFs or HTMLs as flipbook. Flipbook attracts user attention and makes more impression on him.
About 7 times the installs, last updated 13 days ago.
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Gallery by Visual Portfolio
Paid version available4.8 (336) 60,000+ active installsBuild photo galleries, image galleries, and portfolio grids with gallery blocks. Masonry, lightbox, sliders, and filters included.
About 6 times the installs, last updated 7 days ago.
Switching from Disable All WordPress Updates: common questions
What is the best alternative to Disable All WordPress Updates?
Disable Updates is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 10,000+ active installs with a 4.5 out of 5 rating.
Which Disable All WordPress Updates alternative has the most users?
Easy Updates Manager, with 300,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Disable All WordPress Updates alternative is rated highest?
FooGallery, rated 4.8 out of 5 by 987 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Disable All WordPress Updates alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Disable All WordPress Updates score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Disable All WordPress Updates on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Disable Updates is the closest match to Disable All WordPress Updates by the data we track, and Easy Updates Manager has the widest reach with 300,000+ active installs. FooGallery shipped the most recent release, on September 4, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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