86
Core Rollback
A lifesaver for downgrading unless you lose your admin password.
HealthyGrowing
86/100
Developers love this tool for quick downgrades despite occasional login complications.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.7★
16 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+65%
Growing fast
78 → 129 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +65% in the last year
78/day a year ago→129/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayCore Rollback is widely praised as a reliable tool for downgrading WordPress versions and saving developers time, though a few users report rollback failures and password reset issues after use.
What people like
- +Enables rolling back WordPress core to earlier versions×8
- +Saves developers time when testing against legacy WordPress versions×2
- +Generally works without issues for most users
Common complaints
- −Fails to rollback on some installations
- −After rollback, admin password may become invalid, requiring a reset
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.67★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
- 6%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-11-172025-03-112026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 16 total
Latest reviews · 16 analyzed
- 2026-05-29★★★★★Worked for meyavuzc
- 2026-01-13★★★★★Life Savermthomas80
- 2026-01-07★★★★★I did my job with it, I downgraded WordPress from 6.9 to 6.8.3.tatuatu
- 2025-05-11★★★★★6.8 to 6.7.2wpandlpuser
- 2025-05-03★★★★★Affected Login.VJ1I
- 2025-05-01★★★★★Very nice and easy to useDuncan
- 2024-12-02★★★★★Would not work on my test sitetakenyahampton
- 2024-08-05★★★★★Very helpful pluginrepetemos55
- 2024-06-09★★★★★Simply excellent !Earnie Rhyker
- 2024-02-22★★★★★Bless this pluginJamie
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
107
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
126
Prior 7-day baseline
184
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
700
Mean release-day peak (30d)
236
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-15.1%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
17%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.60
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
88%
5★ share in analyzed sample
6%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.69 → 4.67★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered