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/download/release-archive/ and unzip locally.
• Upload the following to your site
• root folder files
• May not be necessary, but without doing it, I ran into errors
• Remember to re-upload your old wp-config.php file, though, because it has your database settings in it.
• /wp-admin
• /wp-includes
• Log into the administrative backend of your site and it should ask you to Update Your Database. Go for it.

That's it. Most important things to remember are to make a backup of your site, overwrite the files in the root directory (which is what made it work for me) and then re-upload your wp-config.php file from your previous installation.