Well, instead of worrying, use Lock Your Updates Plugins Themes Manager to lock your plugins and themes from being updated and to store notes to help you remember what edits you made, all from the plugins or themes admin management page..
If you'd like to contribute to this plugin, feel free to do so on the.
Click the icon to lock and unlock your plugin.
Click the notes icon to manage your notes for the plugin.
If the plugin has notes, the notes icon will display lines.
Lock Your Updates adds action buttons to your themes management page which allow you to lock and unlock your theme and manage the notes for your theme.
If you're running WordPress multisite, and therefore manage your plugin and theme updates from the network admin, Lock Your Updates also provides column that will show you where the plugin or theme is active...
Navigate to 'Add New in the plugins dashboard.
Upload the directory to the wp-content plugins directory.
Browse the code, check out SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS...
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