Title: .dev files?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# .dev files?

 *  [lawtai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lawtai/)
 * (@lawtai)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dev-files/)
 * Some background:
 * When I typically upgrade to a new version, I make some changes to the code package
   before it gets upgraded. I’m not really sure if I need to do this anymore, but
   I do it since it still works.
 * I basically make two changes, one to pluggable.php so that any comments are always
   sent to the author and to me (multiple authors).
 * The second change is that I update quicktags.js so that when I add an image, 
   an extra prompt comes up asking me if I want the image to be aligned left/right/
   centered. This allows the CSS to key off the alignment for my posts.
 * This time in loading 2.8, I noticed a quicktags.js and a quicktags.dev.js. From
   what I can tell, quicktags.js has no code formatting so it’s practially impossible
   to add any code. However, quicktags.dev.js does, so I added it to the .dev file,
   and then renamed it to quicktags.js. This allows my extra prompt to show up, 
   but I was wondering do I need both a .dev file and the original .js file?
 * Is there another way to do this, or is what I did fine? Everything seems to work
   normally as far as I can tell.
 * Thanks for any help!

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 *  Thread Starter [lawtai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lawtai/)
 * (@lawtai)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dev-files/#post-1104359)
 * anyone?
 *  Thread Starter [lawtai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lawtai/)
 * (@lawtai)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dev-files/#post-1104620)
 * bump
 *  [foobat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foobat/)
 * (@foobat)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dev-files/#post-1104936)
 * bump
 * i also routinely modify the quicktags file myself and am curious as to why the
   new file has no line breaks (thus making it ridiculously difficult to edit).
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dev-files/#post-1104937)
 * Instead of editing the quicktags.js file (which means re-editing it every time
   there’s an upgrade), have a look at the [QuickTag Extender plugin](http://benjaminsterling.com).
   It’s nOw one of my Top 5 plugins and still works flawlessly under WP 2.8.
 *  Thread Starter [lawtai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lawtai/)
 * (@lawtai)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dev-files/#post-1105009)
 * that link to your website is a download file?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [lawtai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lawtai/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dev-files/#post-1105009)
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