Upgraded from 4.4.3, plugins not working

[JReviews]

Hi

I am looking for some guidance please.

I have a production site on 4.4.3 and upgraded a dev site to v4.5.4 and most of the custom plugins I have are not working. I created these a couple of years ago and don't have the original files. These are mostly using hooks.

On the dev site when I enable IN_DEV, one plugin complains about the template file not being there. I am assuming that when on IN_DEV it tries to read the actual files instead of getting the info from the database. Since I don't have the original files, is there a way to re-create the files from the production site? Where would i find the template file?

Just trying to understand the basics so I can then try to fix the plugins one by one.

Thanks

[bfarber]

There won't be template files on the production site unfortunately. You would need to retrieve them from the database and manually recreate the template files. They'll be stored in core_theme_templates.