Surgical Plugin Rollbacks: Why Per-Plugin Revert Beats Bulk Recovery in Production

When bulk WordPress plugin updates cause site failures, rolling back everything means losing 19 good updates alongside 1 broken one. By combining one-at-a-time updates with HTTP status checks between each step, you identify exactly which plugin caused the breakage and revert only that single plugin to a known-good version using WP-CLI's version pinning feature. This precision recovery approach keeps the site stable while preserving progress on legitimate updates.