Title: How to update custom plugin
Last modified: September 5, 2016

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# How to update custom plugin

 *  [donachy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donachy/)
 * (@donachy)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-update-custom-plugin/)
 * Hi,
    I’m very new to WP development but I’ve just developed a custom plugin to
   add some shortcode to my site. Plugin works fine but I’m not able to update it
   by admin console. With the active plugin I try to update it by “Add new” and 
   uploading the new archive but I always receive a message “destination folder 
   already exists”
 * I’ve update the plugin version in metadata i.e. from 1.0.0 to 1.1.0
 * /*
    Plugin Name: myplugin Plugin URI: mysite Description: mydescription **Version:
   1.1.0** Author: myName Author URI: mysite */
 * and I expected that this would be enough
 * Of course If I uninstall the plugin and reinstall everything works fine.
 * What I’ve missed?
    Maybe is the wrong procedure to update a plugin already installed?
    -  This topic was modified 9 years, 10 months ago by [donachy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donachy/).

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