Title: Turn a plugin into a function
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Turn a plugin into a function

 *  [openpundit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/openpundit/)
 * (@openpundit)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/turn-a-plugin-into-a-function/)
 * I have a rather bizarre question:
 * Is it possible (and I assume it is), to take a plugin, and recode it somewhere
   to make it a standard function?
 * For example, if I wanted to use the wp-odeo plugin, and make into a function 
   that does not require activation, how could I go about this? Other than changing
   the file paths inside the plugin to reflect the path of where it will now live,
   do I need to add the filters (if any) in default-filters.php to make it functional?
 * -I want a new directory, something like this:
    root/api
 * -Rather than having the plugin living here:
    wp-content/plugins
 * The /api/ directory would contain all of the modified plugins as functions, while
   the /plugins/ would still be the plugins, minus what I am calling in /api/ since
   I can’t call the same function twice in the same space.
 * Any ideas?

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