Creating Plugin for Wordpress

Question

I knew that we could create child themes for wordpress. But I want to know if we can create child plugins. The reason for this is because I want to insert some text or something into an existing plugin without touching the plugin files. This way my changes will not be affected when updating the plugin. Please advise whether this is possible or not. Thanks

Answer 1

Use hooks and filters to change your plugin function from your functions.php theme. Thus, this will not affect the plugin update time.

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Answer 2

wordpress has no "child" plugin ... just create a separate plugin to do what you want. It looks like you will need to use a filter.