Hide WordPress Update Nag in Admin Dashboard

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Whenever there’s a new update available, WordPress notifies the administrator with a nag in the admin dashboard.

WordPress Update Notification
WordPress Update Notification

If you’d like to hide this nag, you can do so without using any plugin. Simply follow the steps shown below.

Open:

wp-admin/includes/update.php

Find (around line 139):

add_action( ‘admin_notices’, ‘update_nag’, 3 );

Comment out the line:

// add_action( ‘admin_notices’, ‘update_nag’, 3 );

That’s it!

If you don’t want to mess with core files, then add this to your theme’s functions.php file:

function hide_wp_update_nag() {
remove_action( 'admin_notices', 'update_nag', 3 );
}
add_action('admin_menu','hide_wp_update_nag');

Reload your dashboard and you won’t see the update nag.

Hide Plugins Update Indicator in WordPress Dashboard Menu

Along with the dashboard notification, WordPress also shows a count of available plugin updates in the dashboard menu.

Plugin Update Indicator
Plugin Update Indicator

If you want to hide it, as Leeroy needed, just drop the following to your your theme’s functions.php file.

function hide_plugin_update_indicator(){
    global $menu,$submenu;
    $menu[65][0] = 'Plugins';
    $submenu['index.php'][10][0] = 'Updates';
}
add_action('admin_menu', 'hide_plugin_update_indicator');

These tweaks does not prevent you from updating WordPress, you can view and run update as you always did.

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