Title: Updating overwrites custom code changes?
Last modified: June 2, 2018

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# Updating overwrites custom code changes?

 *  Resolved [TCninety](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timcook1192/)
 * (@timcook1192)
 * [7 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updating-overwrites-custom-code-changes/)
 * After updating the plugin, it overwrote all the custom code changes I’d made.
   These changes were outside the scope of the plugin’s current “Design” tab. Is
   there a way to avoid this happening when updating in future?
    -  This topic was modified 7 years, 12 months ago by [TCninety](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timcook1192/).

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 *  Plugin Author [Weston Ruter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/westonruter/)
 * (@westonruter)
 * [7 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updating-overwrites-custom-code-changes/#post-10355738)
 * I think you are referring to a different plugin, specifically [https://wordpress.org/plugins/accelerated-mobile-pages/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/accelerated-mobile-pages/)
 * Please open a support ticket on their forum: [https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/accelerated-mobile-pages](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/accelerated-mobile-pages)
 *  Thread Starter [TCninety](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timcook1192/)
 * (@timcook1192)
 * [7 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updating-overwrites-custom-code-changes/#post-10355783)
 * Nope, it was this plugin. I edited the src files in the AMP folder, specifically
   the template files. After recently updating, all the changes were overwritten.
 * This included change of logo, change of footer, missing social icons and numerous
   other changes.
    -  This reply was modified 7 years, 12 months ago by [TCninety](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timcook1192/).
 *  [austintude](https://wordpress.org/support/users/austintude/)
 * (@austintude)
 * [7 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updating-overwrites-custom-code-changes/#post-10356038)
 * I’ve been doing this same thing for over a year now.
    The best modus operandi
   is to copy all template files prior to updating and then overwrite them afterwards.
   HOWEVER, as Weston Ruter will confirm, this method is not recommended. Currently,
   i am working on getting their preferred method whereby you utilize your own templates
   calling them in the functions.php from a child theme… but thus far i have not
   been successful getting this method to work. [@weston](https://wordpress.org/support/users/weston/)?
 *  Plugin Author [Weston Ruter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/westonruter/)
 * (@westonruter)
 * [7 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updating-overwrites-custom-code-changes/#post-10356080)
 * For overriding the post templates bundled with the theme, you just copy the template
   file from the plugin and place it in an `amp/` directory inside your theme. You
   can then make changes to the file in your theme and plugin updates will not override
   them.

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 * Last reply from: [Weston Ruter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/westonruter/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updating-overwrites-custom-code-changes/#post-10356080)
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