More for the developer this one than most clients…
When doing some maintenance on an existing site I noticed lots of updates were pending on plugins. Some of the plugins I had customised for particular purposes (which is not the right way to do it but sometimes time is of the essence!) so I didn’t want an update to overwrite all of my hard work.
So I found the cleanest way to do it was to add a few lines of code to the button of functions.php in the theme directory.
function filter_plugin_updates( $value ) { unset( $value->response['drop-shadow-boxes/dropshadowboxes.php'] ); unset( $value->response['jquery-vertical-scroller/sg-jqvs-widget-plugin.php'] ); return $value; } add_filter( 'site_transient_update_plugins', 'filter_plugin_updates' );