Title: Changed Files after Installed
Last modified: June 4, 2018

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# Changed Files after Installed

 *  Resolved [Brazen Links](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brazen-links/)
 * (@brazen-links)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changed-files-after-installed/)
 * I am presuming you are updating files on the repository hosted plugin which hasn’t
   shown as updated due to you not changing the version number.
 * I would like to call attention to something you might not be considering. I have
   several sites with your plugin installed. I also have Wordfence plugin installed.
 * Wordfence checks files installed on websites with files hosted on WordPress.org.
   When a discrepancy arises, owners of websites are alerted with changed file warnings.
   They do that to help website owners and managers to protect their own sites.
 * When an author starts changing files hosted on WordPress.org and doesn’t change
   the version of the plugin, they can cause unnecessary concern for owners and 
   managers of websites.
 * There have been a number of plugins hosted on WordPress.org in recent months 
   that were used to do malicious things or used to market inappropriately which
   had to be fixed. When you choose to update files on WordPress.org and not cause
   an update notification for your plugin, many people become confused and wonder
   if their sites are being hacked, or the owner of the plugin is writing code to
   do things that shouldn’t be done.
 * Please consider updating your plugin version so that there is a notice to update
   instead of us receiving warnings that the WordPress.org hosted version of your
   plugin is different from what is installed on our sites.
 * Please also consider there is justifiable reasoning for being concerned when 
   a warning is issued by a security plugin, due to plugin file differences between
   WordPress.org hosted files and files installed on websites.
 * Thanks

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 *  [Mark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markwt/)
 * (@markwt)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changed-files-after-installed/#post-10367476)
 * We did not changed the version for a minor updates done with last push, hence
   you are not getting the notice to update to the new version. That’s why, there
   is a minor code difference between your plugin and the one in WordPress SVN repo.
 * We will be updating the plugin with a translation update in couple of days.
 * If you want to get rid of the notice, you can delete the existing plugin and 
   [download a new copy of the plugin from here](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/cookie-law-info.1.5.7.zip).
 *  Thread Starter [Brazen Links](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brazen-links/)
 * (@brazen-links)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changed-files-after-installed/#post-10368327)
 * I have over 100 sites your plugin installed on. It is a completely ridiculous
   expectation that I need to manually delete your plugin to get rid of security
   warnings. You are creating unnecessary concerns for me.
 * It shouldn’t be a necessity for users to manually delete your plugin in order
   to avoid unnecessary warnings that the Repository version is different from the
   installed version.
 * What a shame, you think that’s the way things should be done.
 * Guess I don’t need your plugin that much. Thanks
 *  [Mark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markwt/)
 * (@markwt)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changed-files-after-installed/#post-10371776)
 * Hi [@brazen-links](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brazen-links/),
 * We will be updating the plugin with new changes and obviously the version change
   in a day or two.
 *  Thread Starter [Brazen Links](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brazen-links/)
 * (@brazen-links)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changed-files-after-installed/#post-10372152)
 * Issue has been resolved. Switched to another plugin. Thanks

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 * Last reply from: [Brazen Links](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brazen-links/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changed-files-after-installed/#post-10372152)
 * Status: resolved