Title: Reverting Plugins/restore within WordPress
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Reverting Plugins/restore within WordPress

 *  Resolved [dan382](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dan382/)
 * (@dan382)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reverting-pluginsrestore-within-wordpress/)
 * After backing up my WordPress installation (MySQL databases via phpMyAdmin, and
   the entire front end website via FTP) I updated a handful of plugins, which resulted
   in an important aspect of the website to fail.
 * The plugin I believe is responsible is ‘Advanced Custom Fields’, updated from
   2.0.5 to 3.5.8.1. When I updated this plugin I got the notification:
 * “Advanced Custom Fields v3.5.8.1 requires a database upgrade (why?). Please backup
   your database, then click Upgrade Database.” This was completed successfully.
 * As I’ve been unable to solve the problem I’m looking to restore my WordPress 
   installation from the backup. My question is what will be required to do this?
   Do I need to restore files from the FTP backup as well as the various mySQL databases?
 * Thanks for any help.

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 *  [Jess](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jcull76/)
 * (@jcull76)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reverting-pluginsrestore-within-wordpress/#post-3434820)
 * Try deleting the troublesome plugin, and then disabling all other plugins, to
   see if things revert, before restoring your whole site. Also switch to the default
   theme (twenty twelve or twenty eleven both work). Then test, then turn your plugins
   back on one by one, testing after each one.
 * If that doesn’t resolve the problem, then start just with restoring the database.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup](http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup)
 * If that doesn’t work, then reinstall WordPress (same process as updating).
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress#Manual_Update](http://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress#Manual_Update)
   
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended](http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended)
 *  Thread Starter [dan382](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dan382/)
 * (@dan382)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reverting-pluginsrestore-within-wordpress/#post-3434930)
 * Thanks for the feedback Jess. I resolved this issue by completely deleting the
   plugin via FTP and using the developers WordPress plugin page to download the
   prior version. Once installed everything snapped back into place. I didn’t do
   anything to revert the database (despite this apparently being updated), and 
   everything seems to work anyway.
 * Thanks

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [dan382](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dan382/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reverting-pluginsrestore-within-wordpress/#post-3434930)
 * Status: resolved

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