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Will Patchman break my website?
Patchman targets only known security vulnerabilities, so your website stays intact and working as expected.
Patchman is designed to fix security vulnerabilities without touching anything else on your site - here is why that matters.
How Patchman patches your site
Unlike a full application update, Patchman applies surgical fixes only to the specific lines of code that contain a known vulnerability. Everything else - your plugins, themes, configuration, and content - is left exactly as it is.
Full application updates, by contrast, replace large amounts of code at once. This can break plugins or themes that depend on a particular version of the application, which is a common cause of sites going down after an update.
Because Patchman changes only the vulnerable code and nothing more, it carries a much lower risk of disrupting your site than a full upgrade would.
What this means for you
- Your site continues to work normally after a Patchman patch is applied.
- Plugins and themes that rely on a specific application version are not affected.
- You get the security benefit of the fix without the compatibility risks of a full update.