diff --git a/composer.lock b/composer.lock
index 74a5baf89a65f25b1bad9eb7df37e566e93c81a8..1af8dd6a4e5e37396d487f92f9f9d48d62df2997 100644
--- a/composer.lock
+++ b/composer.lock
@@ -236,6 +236,9 @@
                 "php": ">=5.6.20"
             },
             "type": "package",
+            "extra": {
+                "patches_applied": []
+            },
             "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
             "license": [
                 "GPL-2.0+"
@@ -276,6 +279,11 @@
                 "wordpress/core-implementation": "5.4.1"
             },
             "type": "wordpress-core",
+            "extra": {
+                "patches_applied": {
+                    "Disable WP 1.2 upgrade": "patches/wp-upgrade-110.patch"
+                }
+            },
             "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
             "license": [
                 "GPL-2.0-or-later"
diff --git a/composer.patches.json b/composer.patches.json
index 752ca3b03d716dec6abe9c5f34ef4c827864ea3c..e21bb51bdabeae1e9cb6ab23cba0ed4bdcf7aff8 100644
--- a/composer.patches.json
+++ b/composer.patches.json
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 {
     "patches": {
+        "johnpbloch/wordpress-core": {
+            "Disable WP 1.2 upgrade": "patches/wp-upgrade-110.patch"
+        },
         "wpackagist-plugin/disable-wordpress-updates": {
             "Disable automatic updates": "patches/0001-Patched-Disable-Updates-to-run-checks-during-cron-jo.patch"
         },
diff --git a/patches/wp-upgrade-110.patch b/patches/wp-upgrade-110.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..025ac3d0b35499e8df9e79e4fdd8901323c525d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patches/wp-upgrade-110.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff --git a/wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php b/wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php
+index 26614c9..eb5c04e 100644
+--- a/wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php
++++ b/wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php
+@@ -937,6 +937,7 @@ function upgrade_101() {
+  * @global wpdb $wpdb WordPress database abstraction object.
+  */
+ function upgrade_110() {
++	return;
+ 	global $wpdb;
+ 
+ 	// Set user_nicename.