Title: Accidental upgrade to wp 3.1beta Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Accidental upgrade to wp 3.1beta * Resolved [Zenec](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zenec/) * (@zenec) * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accidental-upgrade-to-wp-31beta/) * Hi * I’ve been using a wordpress localisation for quite a while already. A while ago, I noticed that the version offered on the upgrade page didn’t really make sense as it was offereing me to “upgrade” to a lower version of wordpress. Nevertheless, pressing upgrade upgraded my wordpress to 3.0.1 (I think, not sure), just as I wanted. Now just today, I saw somewhere on the web that 3.0.3 is out and though– oh, I should upgrade my blog. This time the upgrade button said “You are about to install WordPress 3.0.3 in English (US). There is a chance this update will break your translation. You may prefer to wait for the localized version to be released.”. I didn’t mind that so I just upgraded. * But turns out, the upgrade downloaded wordpress from nightly builds and now I am using 3.1-beta1-16732. Some plugins are not working that great with the new version, so I was wondering: * 1.How do I downgrade to 3.0.3? I could use the backup I made before upgrading, however, that would lead me back to the slightly faulty previous installation that led me to this in the first place. * 2.How do I make wordpress stick to the stable releases? * Please, do not offer me to delete everything and start all over again. Can I somehow just replace some (most) files and edit some database entries? * Thanks! Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * [demetris (Demetris Kikizas)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/demetris/) * (@demetris) * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accidental-upgrade-to-wp-31beta/#post-1805287) * To start with your second question: * WordPress shouldn’t be offering updates to beta versions unless you use a plugin specifically for that, like WordPress Beta Tester: * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-beta-tester/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-beta-tester/) * Do you have any plugin like that installed? * Now to your first question: * You can downgrade to 3.0 and most likely everything will work fine, but you have to do it manually and very **carefully**: * First, delete the wp-admin and wp-includes directories. * Then delete all WordPress files from your root directory. Be **carefull**, of course, **not** to delete files that are specific to your installation like wp- config.php and .htaccess. * Then upload via FTP the 3.0 files. * [demetris (Demetris Kikizas)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/demetris/) * (@demetris) * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accidental-upgrade-to-wp-31beta/#post-1805288) * See also the Codex, which has a detailed article on updating with a section on manually updating: * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress) * Thread Starter [Zenec](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zenec/) * (@zenec) * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accidental-upgrade-to-wp-31beta/#post-1805293) * Hi * Thanks for your answer. What I actually just did (and it worked fine) is: 1. Used backup to get back to the version that brought me to the issue the first place. 2.Downloaded wordpress 3.0.3 and extracted the files over the one’s I’ve got, in a sense, risking it and doing a quick and dirty version of steps 7 and 8 from here: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended](http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended) 3.I didn’t make any changes to the database. * Now I’ve got 3.0.3 installed and no upgrades are offered. Let’s hope that when 3.0.4 comes out, I will be offered an upgrade and that it will actually upgrade to 3.0.4 😉 * To answer your question – no, I don’t have any beta tester plugins installed. I blame it on the localisation I had installed beforehand. Do you know how does wordpress determine, whether to upgrade to stable or beta version? Is it a database entry? * Thanks for your advice, though. I will mark this thread as solved. * [Mark Jaquith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markjaquith/) * (@markjaquith) * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accidental-upgrade-to-wp-31beta/#post-1805305) * Zenec — which localization were you using? * [Guilherme Euler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eulergui/) * (@eulergui) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accidental-upgrade-to-wp-31beta/#post-1805530) * The same thing happened to me. My WordPress had a message to update, but there’s no updates do my language (pt-BR) so I updated to english but for my surprise, my WordPress comes to beta version 3.1. * I solved the problem, but it’s an alert. Some thing is wrong with new updates to new version in another language. (not the blog original language) * For annotation: I solved the problem deleting the core files and uploading the files of 3.0.3 version to my server. Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) The topic ‘Accidental upgrade to wp 3.1beta’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Alpha/Beta/RC](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/alphabeta/) * 5 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [Guilherme Euler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eulergui/) * Last activity: [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accidental-upgrade-to-wp-31beta/#post-1805530) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics