Title: Downgrade WordPress
Last modified: July 11, 2023

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# Downgrade WordPress

 *  [lmampel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lmampel/)
 * (@lmampel)
 * [2 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downgrade-wordpress-2/)
 * Hello,
   I am modifying a website that is not updated. Today doing tests because
   some images were not visible, I made the mistake of updating WordPress and now
   the constructor (Avada) is not visible. I’ve tried to downgrade to the previous
   version (4.2) with WP Downgrade, but it tells me that it requires updating PHP
   to 5.6.20 (currently I’m trying 5.4.45). I don’t know why it asks me to update
   PHP when version 4.2 works with the one I have now and I can’t update PHP because
   I don’t have access to hosting or control panel… so I don’t know what I can do
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fdowngrade-wordpress-2%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Liew Cheon-Fong](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lcf/)
 * (@lcf)
 * [2 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downgrade-wordpress-2/#post-16887128)
 * I see that you are running very old version WordPress.
 * The plugin error because WordPress minimum requirement is PHP 5.6.
 * You should update PHP or switch hosting with newer PHP version
 * **Backup First**!
 * You can manually upload [WordPress 4.2 no-content installation files](http://wordpress.org/wordpress-4.2-no-content.zip)
   and replace all existing files, _except_ wp-config.php, /wp-content directory
 * **Backup First**!
 *  Thread Starter [lmampel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lmampel/)
 * (@lmampel)
 * [2 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downgrade-wordpress-2/#post-16891724)
 * thank you very much!

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
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 * Last reply from: [lmampel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lmampel/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downgrade-wordpress-2/#post-16891724)
 * Status: not resolved

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