Title: Updating plugins manually
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Updating plugins manually

 *  [electrikweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/electrikweb/)
 * (@electrikweb)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updating-plugins-manually/)
 * I feel a bit silly asking what is possibly a very basic question, but two of 
   the plugins I’m using are purchased and updates are not reflected in the plugins
   panel. Notification of them was emailed with a link to a zip file.
 * Neither of them have any instructions as to how to update..and neither developer
   responds when I ask how to update.
 * Do I just unzip them and copy the files over the existing plugin files on the
   server? How would I know if there is a change to the DB?
 * Thank you

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