Title: Update/Loss?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Update/Loss?

 *  [Noobz4](https://wordpress.org/support/users/noobz4/)
 * (@noobz4)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updateloss/)
 * If I update to the newest version of this theme, will I lose my edits? I had 
   a developer go in and add a custom .php page, amongst other things. Is there 
   much to be lost if I simply don’t update this theme?
 * Thanks so much!

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 *  [paulwpxp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulwp/)
 * (@paulwp)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updateloss/#post-3753093)
 * When you click update theme in WP, the theme files will be overriden. Any changes
   made directly to the theme files will be lost.
 * Changes made to the functionalities of the theme using child theme will not be
   lost.
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)

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