Steps to downgrade WordPress version:
1. Firstly, make full back up of your site (backup of WordPress folder and database).
2. Login to your WordPress dashboard. Go to plugins and deactivate all the plugins.
3. Once you completed with deactivating all the plugins, logout from the WordPress dashboard.
4. Login to your hosting account. Go to your sites root directory and locate the core WordPress files.
5. Delete wp-admin and wp-includes folder. There is no need to delete the files since they can be replaced or overwritten while you copy the files. We only need to delete these 2 folders.
Note: Do not delete the wp-content folder.
6. Open the older WordPress version folder which you downloaded. Copy all the WordPress files and folders except wp-content from this folder and paste to your current WordPress site folder.
Note: Do not copy the wp-content folder.
7. Once you have done this, you are done with WordPress version downgrade.
8. Now try to login to your WordPress dashboard. You will see this message. Click on Update WordPress Database.
9. Click on continue to login to your WordPress dashboard. Now your WordPress site is downgraded successfully.
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