Title: Renaming plugin folder breaks plugin
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Renaming plugin folder breaks plugin

 *  Resolved [wildmice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wildmice/)
 * (@wildmice)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/renaming-plugin-folder-breaks-plugin/)
 * Usually you can rename a plugin folder and the plugin continues to work. In this
   case, since i needed to modify AO, and wanted to change the folder name. However,
   when you do that, it will not work.
 * A small thing, granted, but it seems to indicate that paths are tied to a hard-
   coded folder name, which may not be best practice.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/)
 * (@futtta)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/renaming-plugin-folder-breaks-plugin/#post-6375389)
 * That is [fixed in the github-version already](https://github.com/futtta/autoptimize/commit/14f7f0aeb33505576525396c70f26c3873b3d12c)
   and will get in the next version 🙂
 * If you’re interested, you can [download the latest AO-build straight from Github](https://github.com/futtta/autoptimize/archive/master.zip).
 * frank

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/renaming-plugin-folder-breaks-plugin/#post-6375389)
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