Title: Reverse WordPress
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Reverse WordPress

 *  [rcho90](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rcho90/)
 * (@rcho90)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reverse-wordpress/)
 * Hey so I updated my wordpress to 4.5.2 locally and the live site. And now a visual
   composer plugin isn’t working
 * I have reversed the wordpress update locally (by bitbucket) and now my plugin
   is working again.
 * Now what is the best way to make these changes to the live site. Since I want
   to have the live site back to the old version of wordpress it was using before.
   What would be the steps. Since this is a clients site.
 * Thanks in advance

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 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reverse-wordpress/#post-7633510)
 * You ought to have a local version of their website: [https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_Locally_on_Your_Mac_With_MAMP](https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_Locally_on_Your_Mac_With_MAMP)
 *  Thread Starter [rcho90](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rcho90/)
 * (@rcho90)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reverse-wordpress/#post-7633526)
 * I have a local version of the website… and this is where I reversed the wordpress
   update to the original one.
 * But I am not 100% sure on how to change the files for the live site with the 
   local version I have.
 * I have backed up the live db and all the files as well. Can I overwrite the wp
   files? What is the best way
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reverse-wordpress/#post-7633528)
 * Maybe you need this plugin to ‘roll-back’ [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-rollback/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-rollback/)
 * I’m not sure I see the issue with deploying to the Live site, I thought the issue
   was that the update was carried out on Live without being tested first.
 *  Thread Starter [rcho90](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rcho90/)
 * (@rcho90)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reverse-wordpress/#post-7633549)
 * It was carried out on the local version and the live site…
 * I thought I tested everything but guess I didn’t look at the visual composer 
   plugin…
 * So both (local & live) have been updated to 4.5.2. Except now I have reversed
   the change to the local version back to 4.5 and could like to do the same for
   the live site
 * Except I am now sure what steps to take, besides backing up the database and 
   the files from the live site. Can I override the wp files or would hae cause 
   issues.
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reverse-wordpress/#post-7633557)
 * So you’re looking for steps to take to resolve the issue with the visual composer
   plugin?
 *  Thread Starter [rcho90](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rcho90/)
 * (@rcho90)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reverse-wordpress/#post-7633581)
 * no, I am looking for steps to resolve how to get wordpress back to 4.5 instead
   4.5.2.
 * I cannot resolve the plugin because it came with the theme Akal (so I do not 
   have a the license key for it to ask the developers of the plugin for help)
 * Also the theme itself has not been updated or worked on for 2 years now and works
   with 4.5 and this is where I made the mistake on updating my site to 4.5.2 and
   now I would like to reverse it on the live site.
 * I have the 4.5 wordpress locally now (because I reversed my commit on sourcetree)
   but need to make the changes for the live site.
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reverse-wordpress/#post-7633582)
 * It’s fine to overwrite core files, just make sure you don’t overwrite the ‘wp-
   content’ folder and ‘wp-config.php’ file.
 * You don’t need to backup the core files of 4.5 because the code is already here:
   [https://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/](https://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/)

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