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How To Downgrade Your Wordpress Installation

I recently updated one of my Wordpress installations to 3.5 from 3.4.2 and found out that 3.5 really isn't ready for release as it appears to have a slew of problems . So, what to do?  Downgrade back to 3.4.2, obviously.  A quick Google search brought up this great article with some good steps to follow:  http://etuts.org/manually-downgrade-wordpress/ Here are the steps, with my notes: Log into the administrative backend of your Wordpress installation and deactivate all your plugins (important) Create a backup of your site including the database for safety's sake ( or at least download all the files including those in the root directory, especially wp-config.php) Delete the \wp-admin and \wp-includes folders of your site either with your FTP client or through the backend cPanel of your hosting company.  File Manager in cPanel is a lot quicker than through FTP. Find the Wordpress 3.4.2 (or whatever version you are going to downgrade to) files:   http://wordpress.org