Did you backup the database prior to upgrading? One of the many changes introduced in the upgrade is the password hashing algorithm. You need to restore from a backup in order to revert.
Crap, I know I did for one blog, not sure about the others. Actually, I pretty sure I didn’t for some wp installs. Is there any easy way to revert back to wp 2.3 if you don’t have a backup? I doubt it, but I thought I would ask. I can always ask the hosting co to revert back to a previous version, don’t really like that option as I will loose some posts.
I thought that since the upgrade worked seamlessly for one blog, others would work just as well. And the upgrades were easy. Just didn’t realize how many people hated the upgrade. Geez, what a rookie mistake.
Is there any easy way to revert back to wp 2.3 if you don’t have a backup?
Technically you can but it’s not advisable. One of the problems you may encounter is the inability to login to the blog because of the different password hashing. You could reset the password via phpMyAdmin. See Otto42’s reply here.
I must add a strong caveat here: this MAY NOT work as expected. The upgrade made extensive changes to the database so the result of reverting without a backup MAY HAVE unexpected results.
ok, it’s noted about the “May Not work as expected”. Personally, I would rather keep wp 2.5 and deal with the UI issues people are having.
I have so many gripes from others, but the biggest seems to be around the manage tab and authors not being able to filter their posts by unpublished, published or private. In wp 2.5, do you know of anyway to filter post by author and status? Once again just asking, that would be my biggest problem right now so I can keep 2.5
In my Manage Posts interface I have 2 lines > Published: and Drafts: but then I’m the only author. I’m unsure how this works in a multi-author environment.
