Jalma Who Sees Updates

If you manage a site for someone else — or just don’t want every administrator nagged about updates you handle yourself — Jalma Who Sees Updates quietly removes the update notices from the people who shouldn’t act on them, while keeping everything normal for you.

It hides the core, plugin and theme update notices, the update count bubbles in the admin menu, the “Updates” link in the menu and admin bar, and it blocks the updates screen for hidden users. Updates still install normally for anyone who is allowed to see them — nothing is disabled, and nothing is changed in the database. The update data is simply filtered per user, on each request.

Two simple modes

• Hide from roles — pick the roles that shouldn’t see updates. Tick “Administrator” to hide updates from other administrators too.
• Show only to users — pick exactly who is allowed to see updates. Everyone else is hidden, including other administrators.

You don’t combine them — choose whichever fits.

You can’t lock yourself out

The user who activates the plugin is recorded as the owner. The owner always sees updates and always sees the settings page, no matter how the rules are configured. If the owner account is ever deleted, the plugin fails open — updates become visible to everyone again, so a broken configuration can never hide security updates from the whole site. There is also a define( 'JWSU_DISABLE', true ) escape hatch for wp-config.php.

Honest about what it is

This hides update notices from view; it is not a security boundary. Any administrator can still deactivate the plugin. It’s a tidiness and “please don’t touch the updates” tool for sites you maintain — not a lock.