How to Enable and Disable Automatic Updates in WordPress for Major Releases

define( ‘WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE’, true );

There is one little problem with this code. It also enables development or nightly updates. To disable nightly builds and development updates you need to add this code in a site-specific plugin or in your theme’s functions.php file.

add_filter( ‘allow_dev_auto_core_updates’, ‘__return_false’ );

This filter will disable automatic updates for nightly builds or development updates.

How to Enable and Disable Automatic Updates in WordPress for Major Releases