Title: Upgrading Plugins
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Upgrading Plugins

 *  [OM2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/om2/)
 * (@om2)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-plugins-1/)
 * When I upgrade a plugin – should I just replace ALL plugin files?
 * I just had a thought: do pluging ever change files within their own directories?
   
   Like setting files or something? If I just over wrote, then these setting smight
   get over written?
 * Thanks
 * Omar

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 *  [Jonas Grumby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ss_minnow/)
 * (@ss_minnow)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-plugins-1/#post-1412025)
 * The files and the data are separate. Why not just automatically upgrade from 
   admin instead of uploading? Is it a custom plugin?
 *  Thread Starter [OM2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/om2/)
 * (@om2)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-plugins-1/#post-1412070)
 * aaah… well that was another question i had
    i’d like to do this
 * **question**: why does automatic upgrading sometimes fail?
 * it seems to be hit and miss for me – it’s ok for some plugins and not ok for 
   others
 * is this a common problem?
 * thanks

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