Title: Is a Hack a Plugin ?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Is a Hack a Plugin ?

 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-a-hack-a-plugin/)
 * I’m currently running 1.2a 10/03/04 build, and have a number of hacks, including
   phpGiggle.
    If I upgrade to a new nightly with the plugin architecture, can I
   just drop the relevant php files into the plugin dir ? (I have all the hacks 
   saved as individual files, with the myhacks.php just calling them from a subdir).

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 *  1539
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-a-hack-a-plugin/#post-44146)
 * It doesn’t seem to work exactly like that for some hacks. I tried converting 
   some, and some would works and others wouldn’t. Perhaps before 1.2 is a stable
   release a converter/upgrade tool for hacks to plugins should be written?
 *  [willm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willm/)
 * (@willm)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-a-hack-a-plugin/#post-44150)
 * Yes, does the new plugins directory replace myhacks.php or will they run alongside
   each other? Could be confusing for some people.
 *  [Laughinglizard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laughinglizard/)
 * (@laughinglizard)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-a-hack-a-plugin/#post-44152)
 * myhacks.php will be deprecated in the next few releases, but the myhacks.php 
   structure will continue to coexist with the plugin architecture for the time 
   being.
 *  [DianeV](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dianev/)
 * (@dianev)
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-a-hack-a-plugin/#post-44595)
 * Coming late to the discussion, but I’m curious as to where WP is going with myhacks.
   php.
    The main issue for me is that I’ve made small changes to page code here
   and there, and need to track it somehow to ensure it keeps working in updated
   WP versions. Thoughts?
 *  [Beel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beel/)
 * (@beel)
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-a-hack-a-plugin/#post-44596)
 * myhacks is just a file that is included so even if it were to “disappear” you
   could still add your functions to other included files.
 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-a-hack-a-plugin/#post-44600)
 * Is there another main source to get more hacks / plugins? I thought I had bookmarked
   another site, but can’t find it now.
 *  Thread Starter [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-a-hack-a-plugin/#post-44601)
 * There’s the wiki, and there are some of my (basic) list too:
    [http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/forumhelp/help.txt](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/forumhelp/help.txt)

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 * Last activity: [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-a-hack-a-plugin/#post-44601)
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