If you’ve ever mod­i­fied a Word­Press plu­gin to suite your needs you know how frus­trat­ing the auto update fea­ture can be. I work with a team of Word­Press devel­op­ers and we’re con­stantly deal­ing with lost source code caused by clients upgrad­ing there plu­g­ins with the one click updates fea­ture that is now built into Word­Press. This is no fault of the client, as they should be able to upgrade plu­g­ins as nec­es­sary.  The ideal solu­tion would be to remove the auto update/upgrade fea­ture on a case by case basis as needed.

Until now I have strug­gled with cre­at­ing a solu­tions for this, but thanks to Mark Jaquith’s blog post, Exclud­ing your plu­gin or theme from update checks, you can now do this with ease.

Visit Mark’s site to get the code