Is it good to use older version of a plugin? Well, not recommended till the time things are working fine on a published site. But it’s not always the case that everything should work fine after updating an existing plugin on a live site. There are those bad boys who did not consider the compatibility with others and break the readability of your site. It could be missing of small icons or images to a complete mess of elements on a page. In such a scenario on a live site the first thing you would like to do is to downgrade the version of the plugin to reinstate the site to previous good condition. Here we explain how to revert plugin to older version in WordPress.
Manually Reverting Back to Older Plugin Version
Step1 – Delete Your Existing Plugin
The first step is to delete the plugin causing issue on your site.
Now that you just deleted the plugin causing problem and the next step is to find out the plugin zip file for the previous version of the plugin. Check Previous Plugin Version in WordPress Downloading Older Version of a Plugin in WordPress There will be subversions of the plugin mentioned in the bracket with the identification as “svn”. SVN indicates subversion and contains all file of the plugin for the tracking purpose of plugin author. Click on the version number of the plugin to start downloading. Follow the below steps to upload plugin zip file back to the server. You can also use FTP to do this.
Step2 – Downloading Previous Version of WordPress Plugin
Step3- Uploading Plugin ZIP File
That’s it!!! Check your site， it must have been restored to a previous good condition now.
Using WP Rollback Plugin
Navigate to “Plugins > Add New” menu in WordPress admin dashboard and install WP Rollback plugin from the repository.
WP Rollback WordPress Plugin
Once WP Rollback plugin is activated, there will be a new “Rollback” option enabled for all the plugins under “Plugins > Installed Plugins“.
Rollback Option Enabled
Click on the “Rollback” option for the plugin you wanted to revert back and choose the available versions. Here you will see all the previous versions of the plugin as maintained under the “Changelog” section in WordPress plugin repository.
Rolling Back to Selected Version
Click on the “Rollback” button to see the final warning to backup your WordPress site. Assuming you have a complete back, continue with the “Rollback” option to revert the plugin to selected older version.
WP Rollback – Final Confirmation
1. WP Rollback plugin will only work for the plugins downloaded from WordPress repository.
2. It can also be used to rollback themes downloaded from WordPress theme repository.
3. Ensure to have a complete backup before using this plugin to avoid any unforeseen scenarios.
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