mihdan disable aggressive updates

Mihdan: Disable Aggressive Updates

WordPress plugin to speed up the WordPress admin by disabling aggressive update checks

This, in my opinion, is a mandatory feature for all WordPress sites, as they say - a must-have. Why? Because checking for updates should go in the background and nothing else, with very rare exceptions! But let's figure out what's what...

The reason for the brakes in the admin panel

I think everyone who is more or less connected with WordPress has noticed periodic slowdowns when entering any admin page: the admin console, the plugins or themes page (especially here!). These brakes occur periodically: sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly... This happens due to WordPress checks about new versions: core, plugins, themes and translations...

The fact is that to check new versions when generating a page, PHP sends an HTTP request, or rather 3 requests: core, themes, plugins... If there are paid plugins, then for each plugin there is usually another request... With an HTTP request in PHP, page generation freezes until each request receives a result, and each request takes an average of 0.5 - 1 seconds. So it turns out that the page freezes for 3-4 seconds.

The frequency of these checks on different admin pages is as follows:

• On the Консоль > Обновления page - once per minute.
• On Плагины или Внешний вид > Темы page - once per hour.
• On any page in the admin panel - once every 12 hours (twice a day).

In addition, these checks are triggered during the 'admin_init' event, and therefore during AJAX requests. Despite the fact that this happens once every half a day, it is still unpleasant when someone catches an AJAX request with a delay of 3 seconds... In addition, this behavior for AJAX requests also works in the frontend, and this is not good at all ...

Copyright

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