How do I go back to the old version?

details would help

Details would help related to Skratman’s query, samboll.
Posting ‘details would help’ makes me wonder how you became a moderator.

Meanwhile;
Here’s a novel idea for the wordpress developers, which I will repeat as long as it’s necessary:
– Use themes for the admin controls as well as the forefront.
– Add the 2.6 layout as a theme so people can customize.
– Add the admin controls to the admin theme editor. Either in the already existing theme editor or a seperate admin theme editor.

https://www.ads-software.com/download/release-archive/ – you can download 2.6.5 there.

If you were smart, you did a database backup before you upgraded. You can install 2.6.5 and replace your 2.7 database with the old one.

It would be better, and more secure, to keep the 2.7 – and you’ll find that in time, you grow to like it better than 2.6.5. I certainly do. It sounds like you guys need time to get used to it.

Please let me know if you need any guidance/help in restoring your site – but like I said, you’d be better off sticking with the latest version.

hey RoseCitySister ??

im curious, and this is somewhat off-topic, but since you mention it — from what source are you getting your “and more secure” information?

I’m honestly curious, as there is no mention of security fixes on the release page for 2.7.

Details would help related to Skratman’s query, samboll.
Posting ‘details would help’ makes me wonder how you became a moderator.

So I’m supposed to guess what the problem is?
I am missing so much stuff since the upgrade and am totally disappointed
How would I possibly know from that?
You jumped the op and are criticizing me? Wow!

RoseCitySister, what exactly is better about having a layout that slows down a P4 x64bit PC running Kubuntu Linux 8.04 and Firefox 3.0.4?

You tell me that.

We constantly are told that upgrading to the latest version is an absolute MUST for security reasons, whether we like the functioning/appearance or not. I don’t understand it, based on the dozens of complaints from users about 2.7 breaking their blogs and/or plug-ins. I certainly don’t intend to “upgrade”, and in fact I’m using an early version with no problems at all after almost 3 years. I frankly don’t see the point.

makitk is certainly not the first to complain about their server slowing to a crawl with 2.7. As whooami asks – what security issues are better in 2.7 – or 2.6 for that matter – that cannot be duplicated with a good .htaccess file and using spam filters?

Hey whooami – my mistake in saying that 2.7 is more secure than 2.6.5. I only skimmed the release page.

Usually, it’s better to stay up-to-date with all software, at least in my not-so-humble opinion! ??

RoseCitySister, what exactly is better about having a layout that slows down a P4 x64bit PC running Kubuntu Linux 8.04 and Firefox 3.0.4?

You tell me that.

I don’t know why it slows down your PC, hon – I’ve got a Mac mini with very little room, and it runs just fine. I’ve got a dev server installed on the mini, and the software runs fine on it as well. I’ve never noticed a speed issue using WordPress.

As whooami asks – what security issues are better in 2.7 – or 2.6 for that matter – that cannot be duplicated with a good .htaccess file and using spam filters?

I’m sure that you’re a little more knowledgeable on keeping a site safe with filters and .htaccess than the user who has trouble understanding even things like FTP or MySQL. Many people don’t know how or what to look for…

I certainly don’t intend to “upgrade”, and in fact I’m using an early version with no problems at all after almost 3 years.

I would truly encourage you to upgrade to a secure version – especially if on a shared server.

I’m having the same problem! Is there a way to do it automaically, ot just manual?

You could ask your host to restore their backup, if they do that sort of thing.

I just don’t see the need to endure all the hassles, Sam. It works as is, I pretty well have a handle on the file structure – at least to the extent I need to, all my plugins work. I’ve gone over the “upgrade” procedures a dozen times and have no desire to screw around with it and then see if it still works as presently setup. My blog is personal, political, and has nothing critical to anyone. If some idiot wanted to take the time to bypass my .htaccess file and spam filters – I could just delete the whole thing and database and start from scratch. Better than putting up with all the crap I see people going through who faithfully upgrade and get nothing but problems.

i had the same problem today, i upgraded from wordpress 2.6.5 to wordpress 2.7.1
and i was surprised to see my admin panel gone and i cannot see the theme editor. it was useless.
for 6 hours, i searched for answers how to restore and how to downgrade, and by trial and error, finally i got my old wordpress 2.6.5 . Yehey!!! now, i have a lesson not to upgrade right away when told to do so.
this is what i did,

1. download your preferred old wordpress from here.
download, unzip and extract it. remember where you save the extracted file.
2.open filezilla, go to public_html, delete the wp-admin (of wordpress 2.7.1)
3.in filezilla local site, look for the wordpress file that you downloaded in step 1, right-click wp-admin, and upload.
4. close all tabs and open your own https://yourwebsite.com/wp-admin
(replace yourwebsite.com with your own website name)

and voila!!! if it worked for me, i hope it will also work for you…

Upgrading to 2.7.1 from 2.6.3 broke my blog: character encoding came all messed up (as the blog is in French, there are many accented characters), and the (very simple) theme didn’t work correctly anymore.

As the WP export function does not work correctly (output is severely truncated – this has been indicated for years without a solution), I had to restore everything back to the older version, using split SQL files, table by table (as the SQL backup dump was too large for the phpMyAdmin to ingest at once).

A mess. As time goes by (and a blog grows) it is increasingly harder to maintain consistency of contents through releases.