Lock Your Updates Plugins/Themes Manager
Allows you to lock your plugins and themes from being updated and keep notes on why the plugin or theme is locked.
The facts
- Rating
- 5★ from 5
- Active installs
- 300+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 22 Mar 2015
- Added
- Jun 2014
- Requires WP
- 3.8
- Tested up to
- WP 4.1.42
- Downloads
- 6,950
Our analysis
AI-assistedLock Your Updates Plugins/Themes Manager is a WordPress plugin designed to help you manage updates for your plugins and themes. It allows you to lock specific plugins or themes to prevent them from being updated, ensuring that any custom edits you have made are not lost during routine updates.
The plugin also provides a feature for storing notes about your edits, which can be accessed from the admin management page. It is compatible with WordPress multisite, offering an admin column to indicate where your plugins and themes are active.
Best for: This plugin is suitable for WordPress multisite administrators who need to manage custom edits to plugins and themes.
What it does well
- ✓Allows locking of plugins and themes to prevent updates
- ✓Stores notes about edits for future reference
- ✓Multisite compatible with an admin column feature
- ✓Provides simple lock/unlock management
Where it falls short
- •Last updated in March 2015
- •Tested only up to WordPress version 4.1.42
- •Directory score indicates potential issues
Verdict
Lock Your Updates Plugins/Themes Manager offers a specific solution for managing updates and custom edits, but its age and directory score suggest caution in use.
From the developer
Rachel Cherry's own description of Lock Your Updates Plugins/Themes Manager, lightly tidied.
It hopefully doesn’t happen alot, but sometimes you have to edit the core code of a plugin or theme. It’s not ideal, and it sucks, but, whatever the reason, you had to do it. Now you’re worried you’re going to forget about your edit, update your plugin or theme (as you usually should), and lose your edits!
Well, instead of worrying, use the Lock Your Updates Plugins/Themes Manager to lock your plugins and themes from being updated and to store notes to help you remember what edits you made, all from the plugins or themes admin management page.
The Lock Your Updates Plugins/Themes Manager is multisite compatible.
Features
- Provides simple lock/unlock management on the plugins and themes admin management page.
- Provides method of storing notes so you can remember why you locked the plugin or theme.
- You will still be notified that a plugin or theme needs to be updated, even if it is locked.
- Lock Your Updates is multisite compatible.
- If running WordPress multisite, Lock Your Updates provides an admin column that shows you where your plugins and themes are active.
If You’d Like To Contribute
If you’d like to contribute to this plugin, feel free to do so on the “Lock Your Updates” GitHub repo.
Credits
A big shoutout to Aaron Robb @aaron_robb who helped make this plugin grow.