Most of us make mistakes at least once or twice when working on our website. Luckily, there are ways to reverse what we’ve done. In this guide, we will show you the various methods you can use to undo the changes you make to your website.

You can undo and redo recent changes in the WordPress editor with the following steps:

1. When adding text, images, and other content while editing your site, locate the undo and redo buttons in the top-left corner of the screen.
   • These are shown as a backward arrow for undoing a change and a forward arrow for redoing that change.
2. To undo the most recent action that you’ve taken, click the undo button once.
3. Click the undo button again to undo the action before that, and so on.
4. Click the redo button to return a change that you just undid.

As an alternative to the undo/redo buttons, you can also use keyboard shortcuts to undo and redo changes:

• Windows: Ctrl + Z to undo changes and Ctrl + Y to redo changes.
• macOS: Cmd + Z to undo changes and Cmd + Shift + Z to redo changes.

The key thing to understand with both of these methods is that they only work for changes that you just made in your current editing session.

If you want to revert to changes from a previous writing/editing session, use the WordPress revision system described in the next section.

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