Unless the plugin has made significant database changes, you could follow these steps to downgrade it:
- Download and extract the old version from the plugin repository
- Disable the plugin
- Log on to your server with FTP or SSH
- Upload the old plugin directory to wp-content/plugins/. (You would want to overwrite the newer version.)
- Reactivate the plugin
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