How do I disable plugin version checking?

Plugins that call the function plugin_version_check_for_updates will phone home to the Zen Cart ping server and check for version updates. Developers may refer to Plugin Tips for details.

This messaging may or may not always be desirable; for modules with external interfaces, it can be critical to stay up to date, but for plugins that do other things, updates may be optional.

If you want to disable checking for a particular plugin, try the following:

• Check the plugin’s Admin page and see if it has a setting to disable version checking.
• Comment out the call to plugin_version_check_for_updates in this plugin’s code.

If you want to disable plugin version checking globally, Zen Cart 1.5.7 and above refer to a defined constant ENABLE_PLUGIN_VERSION_CHECKING which you can set to false. (Note this is false without quotes, not 'false'.)

Create the file,

admin/includes/extra_configures/version_check.php

with the contents:

<?php
define('ENABLE_PLUGIN_VERSION_CHECKING', false);