Title: standalone script
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# standalone script

 *  [geduardcatalin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geduardcatalin/)
 * (@geduardcatalin)
 * [9 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/standalone-script/)
 * Hi, Eduard, new here…
    So, basicaly, what I want to do is to make a script.php
   file, and when I run it I want to do the following: – remove or change the logo(
   the one in the top-left corner of the admin screen) – remove or change some other
   elements like Help in the top-right side of the admin menu), or other elements.
 * this script.php, basicly, will modify the wordpress core with simple php file
   handling (fopen, fwrite, fclose, etc.)
 * Now, the question is: Where do I want to insert this code? In what core wordpress
   file do I want to insert the code to remove or change the things I mentioned 
   above?
 * P.S. I know that this is relatively easy to do with a plugin, but I don’t want
   to do that because I already know. I want to learn how WordPress work.

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [9 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/standalone-script/#post-7434140)
 * The first thing you should learn about PHP coding in WordPress is that no one
   should ever alter core files under any circumstance. There is never any reason
   to do so, there are numerous action and filter hooks you can use to alter core
   functionality without actually altering the core code.
    [https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API#Hooks.2C_Actions_and_Filters](https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API#Hooks.2C_Actions_and_Filters)
 * There’s really only two places where you can place custom code in the WP environment:
   a plugin or a child theme (or your own custom theme). Child themes allow you 
   to override the parent theme’s templates, which is one way to change the logo
   or anything else theme related. PHP functions,such as your filter and action 
   hooks, can go on the child theme’s functions.php, or in a plugin.

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 * [standalone](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/standalone/)

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/standalone-script/#post-7434140)
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