Title: WordPress using backed up versions instead changed files
Last modified: January 11, 2017

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# WordPress using backed up versions instead changed files

 *  [monguilhott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monguilhott/)
 * (@monguilhott)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-using-backed-up-versions-instead-changed-files/)
 * Hello,
    I have a problem with wordpress 4.7.
 * Files php, css, js, all are being backed up by updated version.
    Instead of using
   updated themes’s file from my theme or plugin, it creates A COPY as an example:
 * file-theme.css?ver=1.1.x
 * All files used by wordpress are tagged at the end “?ver=4.71”
 * That is, even editing the files, replacing them with new versions or even deleting,
   NOTHING happens because the files used are those backup versions.
 * Therefore, I can not update my files at all.
 * Could some one help me how to remove this feature or indicate how to change the
   files in the correct way?
 * Appreciate,

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-using-backed-up-versions-instead-changed-files/#post-8641844)
 * > file-theme.css?ver=1.1.x
 * Those are not copies of files, per se. They’re simply the way in which WordPress
   loads the files. WordPress will always load the current version of a file *assuming
   that the file is correctly enqueued). Apart from the (very normal) addition of`?
   ver=1.1.x` in the head section of each page, is there anything else about these
   site’s pages that suggests that older version of files are being used?
 *  Thread Starter [monguilhott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monguilhott/)
 * (@monguilhott)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-using-backed-up-versions-instead-changed-files/#post-8642125)
 * Hi emsi,
 * if I change the files via ftp for example nothing happens. WordPress is using
   an “old version” of the files.
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by [monguilhott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monguilhott/).
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-using-backed-up-versions-instead-changed-files/#post-8642139)
 * Which files are you changing? And how do you know that an “old version” is being
   used?
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/).
 *  Thread Starter [monguilhott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monguilhott/)
 * (@monguilhott)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-using-backed-up-versions-instead-changed-files/#post-8642228)
 * One specific file from my plugin,
    /plugins/wc-vendors/classes/front/signup/class-
   vendor-signup.php
 * change one “printf” for translation.
 * I have updated my CSS files from my theme and child theme, and nothing is changing…
 * The wordpress awalys using a different version as mentioned before.
 * I have found some information, file that includes the ‘wp_enqueue_script’ function.
   More details are here:
    [https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_enqueue_script/](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_enqueue_script/)
 * the $ver variable is set to ‘null’ so that no version is added. But, I dont know
   how to insert his on my functions.php
 * $-(
 *  Thread Starter [monguilhott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monguilhott/)
 * (@monguilhott)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-using-backed-up-versions-instead-changed-files/#post-8643209)
 * Hey, its nothing with the wordpress “versions”
 * It was a cache server problem
 * Thanks for your time ESMI

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