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Since it seems that WordPress ignored to provide a download for earlier versions of WordPress, I’ve decided to add a .rar file of WordPress 2.7.1 on my server if you need to downgrade from WordPress 2.8.

If you end up in a situation where I was about half an hour ago, where the dashboard is messed up, image uploader won’t work, the tags menu won’t work…or any of the other menus for that matter…or if you just want to go back to 2.7.1, you can download the files at the bottom of this post in a .rar file.

When you downgrade, make sure that you’re not overwriting the wp-config.php AND that you open the wp-content and it’s sub folders before you overwrite anything in there. Otherwise you’ll lose plugins and your theme.

Other than that, just upload everything over FTP.
Go to your login screen, log in and it will ask you to upgrade the database.
If you haven’t already, make a backup of your database before you click the button that tells it to upgrade.
And that’s it.
Downgrade is done.

You will know that it succeeded when you go to your dashboard and see the phrase: “WordPress 2.8 is available! Please update now.”
That means that everything should be back in working order again.

Edit:

WordPress do have an archive where you can download previous versions.

Download the version you had before and follow the instructions above.

Shame this release archive was not available before.

PS. If you have no clue what any of this means, or if parts of it makes you go “eh?”, take a look at this post instead. It is more detailed and explain most things that has to do with servers, databases and how to do this.