Title: question about my-hack.php
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# question about my-hack.php

 *  [maestro42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maestro42/)
 * (@maestro42)
 * [17 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-my-hackphp/)
 * I see that it says use legacy my-hacks.php. I’m guessing this may be phased out
   in some future release and/or it is not the best way to do things.
 * I have some custom functions that I have in my-hacks.php that just do some simple
   things – most just return some code.
 * What is the correct way to implement small little functions I write (i.e. to 
   return some navigation code, where I just say get_navigation();) so that I don’t
   have to worry about updating in the future?
 * Thanks!

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 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [17 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-my-hackphp/#post-784101)
 * I still use a my-hacks.php; the other way to handle that file is to just code
   your own little plugin that makes all of those functions available to you.
 * Both those ways avoid editing core files, and having to worry about things being‘
   lost’ when you upgrade.
 *  Thread Starter [maestro42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maestro42/)
 * (@maestro42)
 * [17 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-my-hackphp/#post-784102)
 * yea, that is true, except that now I have to remember to save my-hacks.php file
   before replacing the file structure when upgrading.
 * I guess the best way is to write a little plugin that calls all the functions.
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [17 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-my-hackphp/#post-784103)
 * > yea, that is true, except that now I have to remember to save my-hacks.php 
   > file before replacing the file structure when upgrading.
 * thats one of the purposes of backing up. Ive had the same my-hacks for nearly
   4 years — add stuff, remove stuff, same file 🙂
 *  [spc0000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spc0000/)
 * (@spc0000)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-my-hackphp/#post-784550)
 * I’m kinda frustrated, and I just happened to land on this thread after searching
   for about ten minutes. I’m looking to (1) create a my-hacks.php file to upload
   and use, and (2) use this file to change the behavior of the allowed_tags() function
   to customize the XHTML markup that is allowed during comments submission. Can
   anyone suggest where I might find some instructions to accomplish this? Much 
   thanks in advance.
 *  [Stephen Rider](https://wordpress.org/support/users/strider72/)
 * (@strider72)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-my-hackphp/#post-784651)
 * In WP 2.8 you can make a mu-plugins folder inside wp-content. Any PHP files placed
   therein are activated like plugins. (Technically speaking, they activate before
   plugins do….)

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 * Last reply from: [Stephen Rider](https://wordpress.org/support/users/strider72/)
 * Last activity: [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-my-hackphp/#post-784651)
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