Title: Downgrading problems Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Downgrading problems * [complexed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/complexed/) * (@complexed) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downgrading-problems/) * Well, I wanted to use a few plugins and can only use it in WP 1.5 So I downloaded the downgrade script of [http://www.somethingunpredictable.com](http://www.somethingunpredictable.com) and ran it. After I finished and accessed my admin panel it told me to upgrade back to 2.0. Any ideas on how to get around this? * Thanks, Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 16 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downgrading-problems/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downgrading-problems/page/2/?output_format=md) * [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/) * (@kafkaesqui) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downgrading-problems/#post-335568) * Uh, you did delete your WordPress 2.0 files and replace them with the WP 1.5.2 install, correct? * Thread Starter [complexed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/complexed/) * (@complexed) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downgrading-problems/#post-335570) * Ah, no. So where do I get the 1.5.2 files? And do I run the downgrade first? Then delete the 2.0 files and then upload the 1.5.2 ? * Or? Thanks! * [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/) * (@kafkaesqui) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downgrading-problems/#post-335574) * “_And do I run the downgrade first?_“ * I can’t answer that, as I’ve not used the script. But older WP versions can be found here: * [http://static.wordpress.org/archive](http://static.wordpress.org/archive) * Thread Starter [complexed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/complexed/) * (@complexed) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downgrading-problems/#post-335578) * What files would I be replacing as well? * Thread Starter [complexed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/complexed/) * (@complexed) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downgrading-problems/#post-335695) * Ok, downloaded 1.5.2 so should I replace all my folders? Or is there some sort of step – by – step guide around here? Thanks * [petit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petit/) * (@petit) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downgrading-problems/#post-335700) * Well CompleXed, your question and approach makes me a little worried. The guy who wrote the script says: * > “In light of the recent monstrosity that is WordPress 2.0, I’ve thrown together > a script” * I, and many others, wouldn’t agree. WordPress 2.0 is very stable and in the newly released 2.01 quite a few bugs are fixed. I just upgraded from 2.0 to 2.01 in five minutes and everything worked right out of the box *following instructions*. * I also would be careful to use a “thrown together” script for changing the database back to the 1.5.2 version, unless this guy is a known MySQL guru. His script is humbly versioned as 0.1. * Out of curiosity I must ask: Why do you want to downgrade? There must be a good reason so please share it with the rest of us! * [ilione](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ilione/) * (@ilione) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downgrading-problems/#post-335703) * petit, OP said it was to use some plugins that were only compatible with 1.5 * CompleXed: I suggest you wait for the plugins to be upgraded or look for other plugins that do the same job. Most plugins have been upgraded or are in the process: o) * Ilione x * [petit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petit/) * (@petit) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downgrading-problems/#post-335704) * Ilone: I’m a lousy reader sometimes, thanks. My apologies go to CompleXed! * Thread Starter [complexed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/complexed/) * (@complexed) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downgrading-problems/#post-335708) * No apologies necessary :). * The only plugin that I wanted to use was the “Registered Users Only” by Carthik Sharma. If you know of another script that works like this and for 2.0 I’d love to check it out! * [petit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petit/) * (@petit) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downgrading-problems/#post-335736) * Are you sure you need a plugin for what you want to do? Did you read about the new Roles & Capabilities at [http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#Subscriber](http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#Subscriber) * Of course you have to take other precautions too, such as stopping the indexing by search engines, using robots.txt. Not all robots are well behaved 🙂 * Reading about the “Registered Users Only” plugin, Carthik says that you may have to shut down the feeds, as they seem to get out anyway. * Another veeery old method is to use standard http Basic Authentication. You might know of the method ? In the .htaccess file you add: ` AuthType Basic AuthName" Safe" AuthUserFile /home/dir/htpasswd Require valid-user where AuthUserFile points to the htpasswd file where the encrypted user/password for each user resides. * But, I guess you don’t want to know this, as it means you have to manually run the htpasswd program to add new users 😉 * Thread Starter [complexed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/complexed/) * (@complexed) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downgrading-problems/#post-335738) * Honestly, all I really get from the roles and capabilties thing is that subscribers can ‘read’. All I really want is ‘guests’ who haven’t registered to see a register page or a login page or something. ^ Hopefull that made a bit of sense. * [petit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petit/) * (@petit) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downgrading-problems/#post-335745) * Maybe this discussion can lead you somewhere: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/8560/page/2?replies=42#post-195342](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/8560/page/2?replies=42#post-195342). Look at the last entry ( second page ) suggests that someone succeded to hide the whole blog for non registered guests and still offer them a form to register. * Thread Starter [complexed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/complexed/) * (@complexed) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downgrading-problems/#post-335750) * Works like a charm! Thanks a lot petit! * [petit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petit/) * (@petit) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downgrading-problems/#post-335752) * Happy to here that! It’s always a pleasure when searching leads to finding 🙂 * Thread Starter [complexed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/complexed/) * (@complexed) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downgrading-problems/#post-335753) * Ah, well it seems I’ve got a new problem. I did everything that was posted… now users login and post comments. Except when they post a comment it shows up as “Anonymous” Any idea why that is? * This was the code I added between *** “require_once( dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/wp- config.php’);” and “wp();”… * // Is there a user logged in? * get_currentuserinfo(); if (! $user_ID ) : include ‘./wp-login.php’; die(); endif; * // end * —- I’m confused why it would show them up as Anonymous… Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 16 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downgrading-problems/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downgrading-problems/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Downgrading problems’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) * 16 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [complexed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/complexed/) * Last activity: [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downgrading-problems/page/2/#post-335760) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics