How do I keep visual edits from reverting to default when I update WordPress?

  • Ever since I started updating my WP site to the current version, every time I do it it won’t save some of my edits and changes like hover colors and certain plugins like “Hello Dolly” come back even though I’ve deleted it many times. What do I have to do to keep my changes from reverting back to some default when I update my site?

    thanks
    roger

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  • What method are you using to update WordPress?

    Tell us a bit more about what you’re doing when you update.

    If you are overwriting the plug-ins and themes folders then that would happen.

    If you have edited the default theme like Twenty Ten or Twenty Eleven then you will lose all your style changes. You should use a child theme instead.

    If you make changes to core-bundled extensions, such as the “Hello Dolly” Plugin or the Twenty Eleven or Twenty Ten Themes, those changes will be over-written when you update WordPress.

    If you need to make changes to a core-bundled Theme, use Child Themes.

    If you need to make changes to a core-bundled Plugin, I believe your only option is to fork the Plugin.

    Thread Starter rogerhely

    (@rogerhely)

    I click the button that automatically updates

    Thread Starter rogerhely

    (@rogerhely)

    and I use Twenty Ten theme

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Are you editing 2010 directly? That is in the theme itself and not makeing a child theme?

    If you are editing Twenty Ten directly, that’s why you’re losing all your theme changes every time you do an automatic update. Automatic updates include the latest version of Twenty Ten and will overwrite your Twenty Ten folder. That’s why it’s always recommended never to edit Twenty Ten directly, but instead to make a child theme. Here is a tutorial on how to do that:

    https://www.rvoodoo.com/projects/wordpress/wordpress-tip-stop-editing-twentyten-theme-use-a-child-theme/

    Thread Starter rogerhely

    (@rogerhely)

    Great that answers my question. Are there themes that you don’t have to make a child theme and how do you know?

    Are there themes that you don’t have to make a child theme and how do you know?

    Yes: any Theme that you want to modify, but for which you do not control updates, you should modify using a Child Theme.

    The only time you should modify a Theme directly is when you intend to fork the Theme and to maintain the modified Theme yourself – that is, you do not intend to take advantage of the original developer’s future updates via the WordPress automatic update functionality.

    Thread Starter rogerhely

    (@rogerhely)

    Great, thanks to you all again. VERY helpful!

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