Title: Rollback Auto Update
Author: Andy Fragen
Published: <strong>February 11, 2021</strong>
Last modified: April 17, 2024

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# rollback-update-failure

 * [Details](https://lin.wordpress.org/plugins/rollback-update-failure/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://lin.wordpress.org/plugins/rollback-update-failure/#reviews)
 * [Development](https://lin.wordpress.org/plugins/rollback-update-failure/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/rollback-update-failure/)

## Description

This plugin has been closed as of June 25, 2025 and is not available for download.
This closure is permanent. Reason: Merged into Core.

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Useless against Fatal Errors](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/useless-495/)󠁿

 [thejasonator](https://profiles.wordpress.org/thejasonator/) July 11, 2022 2 replies

When a plugin update succeeds, but the new version causes a Fatal Error (like what
recently happened with WP Crontrol version 1.13.x), you would expect Rollback Update
Failure to roll back the offending plugin to the previous version, but alas! Rollback
Update Failure isn’t immune to Fatal Errors. What it needs is an external Cron process
OUTSIDE of WordPress that monitors an update log for an update, followed by Fatal
Errors in the PHP error log, and then does what Rollback Update Failure is supposed
to do, otherwise WordPress is always going to be susceptible to idiot plugin developers
that cause Fatal Errors with plugin updates.

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### 󠀁[Wow!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wow-849/)󠁿

 [itsmuxr](https://profiles.wordpress.org/itsmuxr/) July 14, 2021 1 reply

That is great! I have just one question! How many times this plugin could roll back
a theme or a plugin update, can it roll back for example three steps back? Thank
you for your answer in advance!

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### 󠀁[هالیییی](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/%d9%87%d8%a7%d9%84%db%8c%db%8c%db%8c%db%8c/)󠁿

 [hashempoor](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hashempoor/) June 4, 2021

خیلی خوبه

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### 󠀁[OK](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ok-709/)󠁿

 [Abolfazl Ghasemihesar](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ghasemihesar/) May 10, 2021

OK!

 [ Read all 5 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/rollback-update-failure/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Rollback Auto Update” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Andy Fragen ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/afragen/)
 *   [ Colin Stewart ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/costdev/)
 *   [ Paul Biron ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pbiron/)

“Rollback Auto Update” has been translated into 7 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/rollback-update-failure/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “Rollback Auto Update” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/rollback-update-failure)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/rollback-update-failure/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/rollback-update-failure/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/rollback-update-failure/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/rollback-update-failure/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **7.2.1**
 *  Last updated **2 years ago**
 *  Active installations **N/A**
 *  WordPress version ** 6.3 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.5.8**
 *  PHP version ** 7.0 or higher **
 *  Languages
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   [German](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/rollback-update-failure/), [Spanish (Spain)](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/rollback-update-failure/),
   and [Swedish](https://sv.wordpress.org/plugins/rollback-update-failure/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/rollback-update-failure)
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