{"id":1013,"date":"2018-01-07T15:19:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T15:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demon.comz\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2018-01-07T15:19:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T15:19:15","slug":"how-to-forcefully-update-a-plugin-in-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/how-to-forcefully-update-a-plugin-in-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Forcefully Update a Plugin in WordPress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">If your WordPress plugin is not working correctly or you want to re-install it even when it is updated to its latest version, without losing data, you can do this without removing the plugin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can do this with both active or deactivated plugins.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Login to your WordPress admin dashboard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. <\/strong>Under the dashboard menu, hover your mouse over <strong>Plugins<\/strong> and then click on <strong>Installed Plugins<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/wp-plugin-installed-plugin-menu.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> Locate the plugin you wish to forcefully update and then click on <strong>Edit<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/wp-plugin-edit-hellodolly.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>4. <\/strong>In the editor, locate the text:<br \/>\nVersion: 1.7.2<\/p>\n<p>Then you will only need to change it to:<br \/>\nVersion: 1.7.1<\/p>\n<p>Only change the version from a higher to a lower number.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/wp-plugin-edit-hellodolly-version.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>5. <\/strong>Scroll down and click on <strong>Update File<\/strong>. Then go back to the <strong>Installed Plugins<\/strong> list, and you will see a text like There is a new version of, and you will only need to click on <strong>Update now<\/strong>. This will update your plugins files.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/wp-plugin-update-hellodolly.gif\" width=\"550\" \/><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your WordPress plugin is not working correctly or you want to re-install it even when it is updated to its latest version, without losing data, you can do this without removing the plugin. &nbsp; You can do this with both active or deactivated plugins. &nbsp; 1. Login to your&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}