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indiaberry, the last WordPress XML Export which I have was more than 2 months ago when I migrated the site from another host to my current location.

Since then I’ve had 30 000 PLUS comments (user comments) on my site plus I’ve enabled and disabled numerous PLUGINS, edited my Theme slightly, I’ve probably had about 400 PLUS Posts (new threads)…. so the database is now significantly different.

I was thinking, tonight during absolutely no traffic time on my site (midnight GMT + 2), I will do the following:

1. Backup my current yet somewhat corrupted database, because at least it’s got 95% functionality, only 2 plugins seem to be affected (WP Comment Remix and Ad-Minister)

2. Disable all Plugins by temporarily renaming the Plugins Folder to Plugins waiting.

3. Rename WP-admin to WP-admin old.

4. Copy all WordPress 2.8.4’s WP-admin to replace where WP-admin used to be.

5. Reverse the rename of Plugins waiting back to Plugins to enable all plugins.

6. Test the site for functuality. if OK, problem solved, if not, do the following from No 7 onwards.

7. Disable all Plugins again by temporarily renaming the Plugins Folder to Plugins waiting.

8. Rename WP-includes to WP-includes old.

9. Copy all WordPress 2.8.4’s WP-includes to replace where WP-includes 2.8.5 used to be.

10. Reverse the rename of Plugins waiting back to Plugins to enable all plugins.

11 Test the site for functuality. if OK, problem solved, if not, I’ll reverse everything i’ve done in these steps and come running to the forum again.

Does this sound like a logical method or are there pittfalls I should watch for?

indiaberry, can you believe it, they never made backups because.. well they did not…. oi vei…

It will teach me to make backups myself… like I always preach to clients of mine.

Can’t one just remove (move) the contents of wp-admin and wp-includes and replace them with 2.8.4’s wp-admin and wp-includes ??

indiaberry, I don’t have on my system but my webhost is supposed to make backups… hang in there, let me check quickly…

My Automatic upgrade worked, but I have a totally different problem, some of the Plugins do not seem to work or has caused a Blank Site ADMIN page to display.

Disabling WP Comment Remix has sorted the Blank Site Admin problem out…

I would rather just roll back to WordPress 2.8.4 where all my plugins worked but I can’t finad instructions anywhere to help me roll back from WordPress 2.8.5 to WordPress 2.8.4

Can someone PLEASE help me with roll back proceedure, seeing as I was stupid enough not to make a Database Backup before Automatically Upgrading to WP 2.8.5