It is very common to edit and modify wordpress too. But, they do a much better job of separating files. If Boonex could come up with a automatic update they would attract a few more people. The manual upgrade discourages a lot of people. I modify wordpress and I understand that hitting the auto update button will do away with some modifications, but it is a heck of a lot simpler to go through a few files than going through dolphin's 5000+ files to accomplish similar. There is just a ton of files see more in dolphin that really could be reduced substantially. You could reapply wordpress modifications in minutes, dolphin would take hours and possibly days to update.