WP Rollback is a plugin that simplifies theme and plugin version management for older WordPress installs

May 26, 2015 09:30 GMT  ·  By

There are some rare cases where WordPress themes and plugins need to be running at an older version number, due to various technical reasons like the server's PHP version, inter-plugin dependencies, deprecated or older code in the current frontend theme.

There are also cases where the desired functionality for a particular website cannot be fully achieved unless using an older version of a plugin, or the site's theme performed and loaded much faster in its previous versions.

For this kind of situations, you need to find the desired theme/plugin, search through its downloads history and download an older version. If sometimes you realize you need even an older release, you have to repeat the whole process and end up losing more time, keeping you from doing something else.

Downgrade themes and plugins with a few clicks

This process is now automated and can be carried out via WP Rollback, a plugin that can make this entire process as simple as clicking three links: (1) selecting the theme/plugin to downgrade, (2) choosing the version to go back to, and (3) pressing a final “Rollback” button.

WP Rollback is deeply integrated with the native WordPress theme and plugin management sections, not needing a separate backend to work with, and can be used without requiring special instructions beforehand.

Since it's so easily to downgrade, upgrade, and downgrade again, at any time webmasters can test to see how the plugin/theme fares with current server requirements and WordPress versions, and go back if they don't like the results.

Accidentally downgrading a theme or plugin is out of the question, since there's an intermediary screen to go through and a final confirmation popup.

The WP Rollback plugin is available from the WordPress extensions repository and can so be installed via WP's built-in automatic plugin installation tool.

Developers can choose a specific version to downgrade to
Developers can choose a specific version to downgrade to

You can now downgrade WordPress themes and plugins (4 Images)

WP Rollback can downgrade plugins to previous versions
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