Pinpoint rollback — building per-plugin revert with WP-CLI
Most WordPress maintenance tools play it safe and roll back all 20 updates (variations on "Safe Updates" or "Atomic Updates"). But running in production, you start running into cases where you want only the broken one reverted, and the other 19 to keep their updates. Here's how that design is built on top of WP-CLI.
- ▪Most WordPress maintenance tools play it safe and roll back all 20 updates (variations on "Safe Updates" or "Atomic Updates").
- ▪But running in production, you start running into cases where you want only the broken one reverted, and the other 19 to keep their updates.
- ▪Here's how that design is built on top of WP-CLI.
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| Original publisher | DEV.to (Top) |
| Canonical URL | https://dev.to/susumun/pinpoint-rollback-building-per-plugin-revert-with-wp-cli-5go5 |
| Publication time | Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:35:48 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-06-15T00:07:33.547Z |
| Last seen | 2026-06-15T00:07:33.547Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 49T38l5ZshYA |
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| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3961116) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Susumu Takahashi Posted on Jun 14 • Originally published at en.wpmm.jp Pinpoint rollback — building per-plugin revert with WP-CLI #wordpress #php #tutorial You batch-update 20 plugins, and one breaks the site. Most WordPress maintenance tools play it safe and roll back all 20 updates (variations on "Safe Updates" or "Atomic Updates"). It's a reasonable default.
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