Answers.Body: <p>To do so, you need to add this following line on your civicrm.settings.php</p>
  
  <pre><code>global $civicrm_setting;
  $civicrm_setting['Extension Preferences']['ext_repo_url'] = false;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><a href="https://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Extensions#Extensions-Disableautomaticinstallationsofextension" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Extensions#Extensions-Disableautomaticinstallationsofextension</a></p>
  
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Body: <p>Fresh install today of CiviCRM 4.7.9 on Wordpress.  There are no installed extensions and I don't need to install any extensions.  However—maybe due to how new the release is—I get this error message on <em>every</em> screen, <em>every time</em> I navigate anywhere in CiviCRM:</p>
  
  <p><br/></p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>"Extension download error Unable to download extension from
    <a href="https://civicrm.org/extdir/ver=4.7.9|cms=WordPress/single" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://civicrm.org/extdir/ver=4.7.9|cms=WordPress/single</a>. Error
    Message: Failed to connect to civicrm.org port 443: Connection timed
    out"</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p><br/><br/>
  <a href="https://i.sstatic.net/nzm0y.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/nzm0y.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p><br/>
  This wasn't happening with the install of 4.7.8 I was working with just a few hours ago, on the same server. I am confident it can make external HTTP requests.</p>
  
  <p>Can this error be fixed or, if not, at least turned off?  I don't currently need any extensions so I'm fine with CiviCRM (silently) failing to reach that URL.</p>
  
Tags: <wordpress><extension><error>
Title: How can I turn off Extension Download Errors?
ThreadText: # How can I turn off Extension Download Errors?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-07-12)
  
  Fresh install today of CiviCRM 4.7.9 on Wordpress. There are no installed extensions and I don't need to install any extensions. However—maybe due to how new the release is—I get this error message on *every* screen, *every time* I navigate anywhere in CiviCRM:
  
  > "Extension download error Unable to download extension from
  > <https://civicrm.org/extdir/ver=4.7.9|cms=WordPress/single>. Error
  > Message: Failed to connect to civicrm.org port 443: Connection timed
  > out"
  
  [![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/nzm0y.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/nzm0y.png)
  
  This wasn't happening with the install of 4.7.8 I was working with just a few hours ago, on the same server. I am confident it can make external HTTP requests.
  
  Can this error be fixed or, if not, at least turned off? I don't currently need any extensions so I'm fine with CiviCRM (silently) failing to reach that URL.
  
  **Tags:** wordpress, extension, error
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2016-07-12. Score: 4 | Accepted answer
  
  To do so, you need to add this following line on your civicrm.settings.php
  global $civicrm_setting;
  $civicrm_setting['Extension Preferences']['ext_repo_url'] = false;
  
  https://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Extensions#Extensions-Disableautomaticinstallationsofextension
  
  
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