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How to preserve changes that you make to theme php files even after you update the theme.

So i wanted to display total number of spam coments blocked by askismet. Checking the the plugins source i found this function which returns the number: [php]get_option(‘akismet_spam_count’);[/php] Getting the blogs first post date was the tricky bit and required a database query: [php]$firstpost = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT post_date FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_type = ‘post’ AND post_status =…