Title: Upgrade WordPress, the Broken!
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Upgrade WordPress, the Broken!

 *  Resolved [stupid_moron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stupid_moron/)
 * (@stupid_moron)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-wordpress-the-broken/)
 * I now look at every WordPress entreaty to upgrade with trepidation.
    It has pappened
   twice now – once from 2.something to 3 and now to 3.2 from the last one. I upgrade
   one blog, great, another, great, then… The Admin area breaks! No menu on the 
   left, the links don’t work – can’t even log out. I’m not using some weird unknown
   host either – Hostgator. So, what do I do now? Throw away a couple of years work
   and reinstall? I’d rather give up on the whole idea, than simply Start Again.
   Yes, I know I should back up – it’s one of the reasons I was upgrading, so as
   to install the backup plugin. Anyone got any ideas? One would be a Roll-Back,
   or Undo Upgrade button…

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-wordpress-the-broken/#post-2178098)
 * Rename your plugins folder to /plugins-OLD
 *  Thread Starter [stupid_moron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stupid_moron/)
 * (@stupid_moron)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-wordpress-the-broken/#post-2178258)
 * Thank you Master Ipstenu.
    Knowledge is power! It fixed the complete crash problem.
   On looking at the contents of that folder, I saw three plugins that had been 
   updated. The first one I chose was “What Would Seth Godin Do” so I removed it,
   renamed the dir to its original state and everything is fine again. Whatever 
   Seth might have done, I don’t want him to do it to my blog again!

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 * [breaks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/breaks/)
 * [upgrade](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upgrade/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [stupid_moron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stupid_moron/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-wordpress-the-broken/#post-2178258)
 * Status: resolved

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