Title: Quick question on wordpress upgrades
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Quick question on wordpress upgrades

 *  [mic10](https://wordpress.org/support/users/micam1/)
 * (@micam1)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quick-question-on-wordpress-upgrades/)
 * When you do a wordpress upgrade, is it just wp-includes and wp-admin that gets
   upgraded, I only say this because I would like to edit the wp-signup.php and 
   wp-activate.php in the root. Do these files get updated when there is an upgrade?
 * Thanks in advance

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 *  [CHRS Interactive](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrsinteractive/)
 * (@chrsinteractive)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quick-question-on-wordpress-upgrades/#post-4666031)
 * First of all, I would not recommend making any changes to core files. What ever
   it is you’re trying to do, I would either build a plugin or just add the functions
   to your functions.php file. You can use hooks and actions to overwrite default
   functionality or add new functionality.
 * To my best knowledge, yes all files get overwritten except the wp-config.php 
   file, when you upgrade.
 * Hope this helps.
 *  Thread Starter [mic10](https://wordpress.org/support/users/micam1/)
 * (@micam1)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quick-question-on-wordpress-upgrades/#post-4666156)
 * Thanks for the advice. I will not edit those files then. I only have a few snippets
   of code for my functions.php child themes which is all I need and the rest of
   my edits I done in the css files. The sign up and activate files I just wanted
   to remove some text that was easy to do directly on those files.

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