Title: avoid losing changes to plugins after plugin updates
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# avoid losing changes to plugins after plugin updates

 *  [Beta2k](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beta2k/)
 * (@beta2k)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoid-losing-changes-to-plugins-after-plugin-updates/)
 * hi all,
 * sometimes i modify code in plugins to customize behavior. however, if the plugin
   gets updated, my code-modifications are lost.
 * what is best practice to avoid this behavior?
 * thanks!

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 *  Thread Starter [Beta2k](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beta2k/)
 * (@beta2k)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoid-losing-changes-to-plugins-after-plugin-updates/#post-5863420)
 * bump…

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## Tags

 * [customization](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/customization/)
 * [modification](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/modification/)
 * [updating](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/updating/)

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