About to switch to Classicpress and I see this yellow flag.
_Modified core files detected. These customisations will be lost. _ If you have JavaScript enabled, you can see a list of modified files in your browser console .
I’m not aware of any modified files, Wordfence scan does not show any. Nothing shows in safari browser console.
Can anyone please let me know if I should just ignore this?
Yes, I’m comfortable with backups (using FTP or jet backup on cpanel).
But I’m just concerned I may have altered something for a good reason ages ago. Although wouldn’t subsequent WP updates always overwrite any edits I’d done?
So this is what worries me, I have always updated regularly up to 4.9.8 and with all plugins uninstalled and deleted why would Classicpress say that core files were modified? They couldn’t be if I just recently updated WP and didn’t edit anything at all outside /wp-content/
Although I really love the idea of Classicpress (congrats to all concerned), I’m just slightly concerned it seems to be misdiagnosing this…
I’m not sure if it is true in my case, but I got the yellow alert and the only changes I had were added files like error files such as 500.shtml
I had extra folders in the root folder, such as uploads too. I’m sure someone with the right skills will answer your questions, but I haven’t heard of anyone ending up with a broken site after migrating to CP.
Can you let us know what were the files? But you should worry with that.
I did a migration from WP5 to ClassicPress and saw that log in the Javascrit console. The Log was right since I was changing 2 core files to test something, but has I said it will be update with the ClassicPress files so it doesn’t matter.
Backup everything first, and try to do the switch.
I appreciate you’re unsure what to do here. I have uploaded a modified version of the core files to my dropbox account [closed]
Just unzip it and upload everything via FTP.
It will NOT overwrite any files you may have added and you will be using CP when you log back in.
It will NOT damage any of your content or database. You can always upload a single file from your backup if you find it is looking for it and it’s not there.
If I didn’t think this was safe, I wouldn’t be asking you to do it.
This is how I’ve migrated all my sites over, so I know it works.
If you feel you need to, click on my name and send me a direct message.
Many thanks Graham, I appreciate the support and do trust that Classic Press is safe, I suppose it is more that I’m curious what could possibly be modified, and curious why CP is saying there are modifications if there are no modifications.
When I got that message, I right-clicked my browser window, clicked on View Page Source, then searched for “modified.” They showed up and none of them were anything I needed to worry about.
Aha, of course - that makes sense. It it was indeed readme.html so all is good now. Oddly that file had changed name to readme.3cbeb21f76b15e7ea359cc5936f0eaac