[wp-docs] FLAGGED FROM FORUMS

[Matthew Mullenweg]

Craig Hartel wrote:
> "Patch and Diff" your WP installation. It would be awesome to document 
> how people can learn how to patch their installs. Personally I'm at my 
> wits' end over these kind of upgrades. Too many possibilities of losing 
> some of my customizations.

The whole idea of the plugin system is that people *should not* be 
making modifications to the core files. Everything you need to do should 
be in a plugin, my-hacks, or a template.

-- 
Matt Mullenweg
  http://photomatt.net | http://wordpress.org
http://pingomatic.com | http://cnet.com