Download older version of wp

How to get old plugin version? Hope that this will ease your pain, when next crashing update will come to town! If you Like it, Share it!

Lead programmer in Apollo13Themes , often can be seen on Apollo13 support. Working hard on making themes fast and reliable in ever-changing WordPress environment. He writes articles for Apollo13Themes blog, mostly concerning technical stuff, updates to themes and opinions about WordPress industry situations. Rife Theme FTW! Remember to always test on staging first! The first way to download an older version of a WordPress plugin is to simply grab it from the repository. We will be using the free Yoast SEO plugin in these examples.

The first thing to do is search for the plugin in the WordPress repository. Scroll to the bottom of the page and you will see an option to download previous versions of the plugin.

As you can see below, you can go way back in time if needed. As the warning says remember that previous versions of a plugin may not be secure or stable and are available for testing purposes only. Then activate the older version of the plugin. You can also install the plugin via SFTP if needed. Your second option is to use the free WP Rollback plugin. This lets you rollback or forward any WordPress. This was created by the team over at WordImpress.

It currently has over 30, active installs with a 5 out of 5-star rating. It is important that you always have backups in place or utilize a staging environment when using this.

But we have used this a few times and it works quite well! Simply install the WP Rollback plugin and activate it. It will then prompt you for the version you want to rollback to. As of version 1.

It will the prompt you with one final confirmation and a summary of changes being performed. You are now running an older version of the WordPress plugin. Test away! Update: The last update 8. I usually wait a bit to see if there are bug reports or bug fixes updates, and then proceed with updating.

So, in order not to stay without sharing buttons until they find a fix, which might take some time, I had to use an older and stable version. Not needing to look for older versions of WordPress plugins for a long time, being careful and all, I almost forgot how to find them :D.

Therefore, I decided to write this post and show you guys how to find and download older versions of WordPress plugins. Note that not all plugins are found in the WordPress repository. If you bought a plugin from a 3rd party site, you might not find it there. The fewer plugins, the better!