I’m bundling ACF PRO with my theme and I read somewhere that the update functionality needs to be removed so that other users can’t get updates without a license. I’d like to know what are ALL the files and or folders I need to remove to prevent a person from being able to update the plugin without a license. Thanks.
Hi @Neal
For ACF PRO to receive updates, a valid license key must be entered. By simply not handing out your license key, the plugin can’t receive updates!
This is a different case with the v4 add-ons where you did have to remove a file to stop automatic updates.
So in short, you don’t need to do a thing!
Thanks for the response.
Here’s the problem though: You just sent out a update for the ACF PRO. The bundled ACF PRO in my theme, while hidden from the admin, still brings up a notification to update. There’s that little icon “1 Plugin Update”. But when a user goes to that page to find what’s new to update, there’s nothing there to update because they don’t have access. This is a problem especially if I’m using an older version of ACF PRO and confusing to the user because they’ll be scratching their heads trying to figure out what’s wrong.
Let me look into this further. You see, I have ACF installed as a plugin and ACF included in a theme all in the same WP installation. I’ll try another installation that doesn’t have ACF installed as a plugin to see if the problem is duplicated.
Hi @Neal
I have a feeling that this is due to the plugin being installed as a plugin. WP wouldn’t be able to provide such a plugin message if the plugin did not exist.
Let me know what you find
Cheers
E
I just checked my other installation using the theme that has ACF PRO bundled with it. ACF PRO is NOT installed as a plugin (and never was) and it’s still asking me to update. I go to the plugin page and there’s nothing there to update.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Hi Elliot, did you get my response?
I was able to get rid of the notification by changing the version number to the latest: in the acf.php file:
'version' => '5.1.5',
So I can probably make this a really high version number and never have to deal with it, unless I want to update it.
I also bundle this internally with my themes/plugins and I addressed this by commenting out line 39 (connect update) and line 42 (settings) in /pro/acf-pro.php. This removes the notification that an update is available. So no need to constantly change the version number or to set one super high.
